Self-Improvement: Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Life

So many people talk with me about the “big” things that are stressful.  Often, it is the “little” things, however, that either contribute to the problems or prevent the individual from coping with them.  Following are ten things that you can do to keep the stress in your life to a minimum:

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Business – Creating a Wonderful Environment – Stopping and Preventing Workplace Bullying

As a sole professional you are responsible for what happens in your practice.  This involves the way that people treat each other.  Stopping and preventing workplace bullying is an important aspect of protecting your business and you therefore need to understand it and the strategies that will be effective.
Lately, the emphasis in North America in [...]

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Book Review: The Tipping Point

“The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell which was published by Little, brown and company is one of the best books that I have read in a decade.  The author who is a writer for The New Yorker magazine also wrote “Blink: The Power of Thinking

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Self-Improvement: Three Things We Can Promote Which Would Improve the World

The other day one of my clients stated that she would like to teach the three “R”s to people. I immediately began to wonder what had lead her to this stance as she wasn’t a teacher my thoughts were that she was referring to “reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic”. I was surprised when she went on [...]

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POLITICS: Inauguration is Historical Event for All of Us

I am a Canadian who has always enjoyed watching American politics.  During the five decades of my life I have observed events that touched me deeply.  The assassinations of John and Bobby Kennedy as well as Martin Luther King broke my heart.  Two years ago, I stood on the X marked on a Dallas street where [...]

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Is the World Crazzzzzier Than Ever?

When I turn on the television or read the newspaper, it seems that there is a constant bombardment of negative events from around the world.  Today I decided to try to sort the day’s top stories into categories and try to determine if these have worsened or if we are just more aware of them:

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NEW YEAR: Tips for Doing Well in the Next Twelve Months

The economy, weather patterns, and health risks can find us standing at the beginning of a new year with fear.  One of the keys to turning fear into hope involves planning.  Those who plan well tend to do well.
There are several things that you can do that will help to make your year better:

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Healthcare Systems: What’s Happening in Canada?

Canada is the only G8 nation without a national mental health strategy and mental health is the most underserviced part of the health care system. This seems rather strange considering the fact that one out of five Canadians will experience a mental illness at some time in life. .
But changes are coming.

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Healthcare Systems: What Would Improve Them and are We Really Open to Change?

I think we have all heard or lived horror stories that involve waiting in an Emergency Department for hours and hours in order to see a physician. Some of us have loved ones who were admitted to hospital and then died, not from the initial diagnosis but because they contracted an infection or fell and [...]

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Is The World Getting CRAAAAZZZZZIER?

When I turn on the television or read the newspaper, it seems that there is a constant bombardment of negative events from around the world.  Today I decided to try to sort the day’s top stories into categories and try to determine if these have worsened or if we are just more aware of them:

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