Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

I love Christmas! the beautifully lit trees, the red Starbucks cups, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation while drinking eggnog in glass reindeer heads, the Boney M and WHAM carol remakes and more than anything…the warmth and generosity this season brings. It’s almost the end of November which means I am already a little late with assembling my annual compassion packages for …

Doing your job…and their job too.

It doesn’t matter how organized a person you are, or how thorough you do your own job. There always seems to be a need to verify details when you are leaving important things in someone’s hands. How do we do this without coming across as micro-managing? I’ll tell you, when it affects YOUR job, YOUR life, YOUR money, and YOUR health …

Manifesting your life plan

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. I’m not sure who said it originally but these are words to live by. In general life and in business you need a plan. I am a firm believer in setting objectives and goals, all things are possible and for some reason putting pen to paper to write them down seems …

Signs, signs everywhere there’s signs

In many movies, we see the leading actor screaming to the heavens “God, give me a sign!” and then a dramatic bolt of lightning appears and miracles happen. Sometimes when we are looking for something as obvious as a lightning bolt we are blind to the answers that are given to us. Understanding signs and messages presented in everyday life …

You don’t need to be a bitch in business

We’ve seen it before. A pursed lipped business woman who barely says hello and sits behind the closed doors of her office. She doesn’t participate in networking engagements with colleagues and misspells your name on every email. There is a huge misconception that women in business must fit this type of character to get ahead. The secret of it is, …

Make-up…and out the door

I don’t like to over-complicate my daily makeup routine. The simple and more polished the better. The only time I “shake things up”  is if I’m running low on time where a coat of mascara and a dab of concealer is all I have time for in which case a matte red lip seems to make me look as though I’ve …

My idea of a “wonder woman”

You know the skin crawling impact your body makes with nails on a chalk board? That’s the same feeling I get when I see today’s little girls distorted idea of female role models. Society focuses so much on the body image influence that models, actresses and singers give our girls, but what about other influences? Why are we not concerned or …

The weirdo from a small town

As my first blog post I thought it would be best to give you a glimpse of my life’s history so far. I was born and raised in a small town in northern British Columbia by two Italian parents. My dad immigrated to Canada in the 70’s and well my mom might as well be considered an immigrant as she was …