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As I reflect on International Women’s Day this year, I think about the wonderful women who most helped to shape who I am: my great-grandmother, my grandmother, my mother and my sister. Why these 4 women when I count 100s of awesome women in my network? What are their influences? Here’s a few: My Great-grandmother […]

I hate my to-do lists! My list of things to do, people to talk to, projects to complete -it never seem to end and every conversation I have ends in yet another “to-do” item. This is where I want to turn on the TV and binge watch all 14 seasons of NCIS. Fortunately, I have

We are halfway through the current session of Prosperity Accountability Groups. This is a small group of women who meet weekly over the course of a couple of months. We share with each other what we are out to accomplish and what has stood in our way so far – then we talk it out,

The end of the year is a good time to reflect on accomplishments and incompletions. My annual exercise used to be to create a plan for the next year based on everything I had not finished from the previous year and commit to working harder at reaching those goals. So in effect, I recommitted to

Have you noticed that when you make a commitment to start something new, all kinds of circumstances show up to derail you? For instance, you start a new diet and then get invited to a must-show-up family dinner or you create a new budget and are told shortly after that you need new snow tires.

The word can conjure a sliver of guilt for most people. What was your first reaction to the word?Dread? Resentment? What if you could transform your relationship to accountability in such a way as to have you thriving in life?? The Business Dictionary defines accountability as: “the obligation of an individual or organization to account

Do you know who you are in life? What are you willing to take an unwavering stance for? What are you here to achieve? Does your purpose or goal seem to fluctuate with your circumstances? You are not alone, this is a place many of us visit from time to time. I was recently challenged

Believe it or not, being on vacation can be difficult. Especially for those of us raised in cultures where a high work ethic is drilled into us from an early age. Taking a vacation has to be well-earned and well-deserved; not taken too often and certainly not done whimsically. Our North American culture makes vacations

Over the years, a number of clients have expressed cynicism over workplace politics. They complain about having to “play the game”, feeling frustrated with not being recognized for the work they do, or for being passed over or terminated in favour of the bosses favorite. Sound familiar? As a Chinese woman, I was raised in

Did you know that boys with a Big Brothers are three times less likely than boys without a mentor to suffer peer pressure related anxiety, such as worrying about what other children think or say about them or that mentored boys are also two times less likely than non-mentored boys to develop negative conducts like