I had a client come in to see me the other day. This fellow is a high paid lawyer who works for the upper echelons on Parliament Hill here in Ottawa, Ontario. And when you work for the powers that be, whether in the Prime Minister’s office or one of the mandarins, you have to produce.
And you have to be sharp! Like a razor blade, your mind has to be functioning with all cylinders firing.
And here was this fellow telling me that he couldn’t focus. “I can read the same page over and over again and …
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Maybe it is just me getting older, but it seems that something just isn’t right. The Black Friday frenzy in the U.S. is now spreading into Canada this year with many stores advertising special “Black Friday Sales”. And as Stompin Tom Conners would say, “We’re busy saving money, spending money we don’t got”.
Shopping had become not just a pastime in our society but an
Who doesn’t like Facebook? It is truly a wonderful tool to keep in touch with friends and family. And not only a place to keep in touch but to get in touch. But I had an old friend of mine tell me a story the other day about the other side of face book.
“Everyone is talking about finding lost friends through Facebook, he told me. I lost my wife because of Facebook!” Read More
It has happened again. We’ve got snow on the roads and the only one’s who are happy are the kids. And why not, nothing like that first slide down a hill.
But for we older folks, it means shoveling and that means some of you will end up with BACK PAIN.
So what to do? Most people will … Read More
A lot of new-age thinking here, but in actual fact, the idea of chakras goes back thousands of years.
Chakra is a concept originating in Hindu texts, featured in tantric and yogic traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for “wheel” .
The Chakras are said to be “force centers” or whorls of energy permeating, from a point on the physical body.
They actually seem to be related to specific systems … Read More
I attended Carleton University’s graduation ceremony this last Saturday. My son Daniel was graduating with a degree in commerce and I was the proud father.
Well, they first awarded Dr. Don Wile’s an honorary degree for his contributions to the college over the years. And then Dr. Wiles made the commencement address to the graduating class.
Well I thought, here we go, just tough it out and get through this speech. I was thinking how hard the seats were and how long this would go on for.
And then Dr. Wiles began to talk. Suddenly, I forgot … Read More
This last weekend, the Ultimate Wake Up workshop was held in Ottawa. The people who gathered together for this were a dynamite bunch who were working on moving forward with their lives.
This was the most powerful workshop I’ve ever attended and that was the consensus of the people who were there as well.
I would like to share with you a gem that a person told me about. They said each morning when they woke up,
Once a year, and only once a year we hold a special workshop in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. A select group of people meet and for 3 days, they discover deep ReadMore
We all feel down and sad at times. And any one who claims they are happy all the time makes you wonder if they truly are or are they just masking their true emotions.
So what are the symptoms of depression for the standard medical field? According to WebMd, the following are
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Working with people this week, there seemed to be a theme about moving forward, growth and reaching one’s goals. And that theme was the chaos that ensues when change happens. Chaos, let’s be real, isn’t something that is easy to live with. And yet the universe has chaos as part