3 Tips to Increase Your Productivity

Repost Working when it’s a holiday is tough. (Canada Day was July 1 and Independence Day is July 4) Your family and friends have invited you to join their plans but you must spend a few hours at the computer to meet an urgent deadline. Work can be fun if you enjoy it; a realContinue reading “3 Tips to Increase Your Productivity”

The Best Teachers: Who Are They?

A perfect teacher does not exist. Teachers are people and people aren’t perfect. Children remember moments like the first time they saw their teacher walking into the staff bathroom and they realize that teachers are human, just like them. Teachers can be great humans. That one teacher, for example, who made a difference in yourContinue reading “The Best Teachers: Who Are They?”

The Lesson We Cannot Forget

The most delicious meal I’ve ever eaten is the meal I had after I found out the truth about my sister.  My parents adopted her when I was eighteen and she was sixteen. I never asked for a sister. She was terrible. She borrowed my clothes without asking and we fought about almost everything.  OneContinue reading “The Lesson We Cannot Forget”

5 Soft Skills for Career Success

How important are soft skills when it comes to advancing your career, getting a raise, or showing your employer that you deserve to take on more responsibility? Soft skills are just as important as job-specific, hard skills. But before we get into why or how they are vital, let’s look at why now is theContinue reading “5 Soft Skills for Career Success”

Small Goals Lead to Bigger Achievements

“I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.” — Kristi Yamaguchi If life is throwing too much at you right now, I get it. Especially if you have aContinue reading “Small Goals Lead to Bigger Achievements”