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The Happy Get Happier, and the Miserable Get Miserabler
The holiday season is looming, and in many households the regular cast of characters is assembling. True to form, the usual sunny-natured suspects will delight in the season and the Scrooge-like participants will not fail to disappoint with their sour demeanours and...
Channel Scarlett O’Hara and Think About That Tomorrow
Morning! Time to greet the day. OK, first let the dogs out the back door, the cat out the front door, switch on the coffee machine and cover ears to avoid the hideous noise of the beans grinding. Heat up the milk in the microwave. Pour the coffee, head back...
Bad Moods Can Be Habit Forming
Steel Magnolias is a classic chick-flick with all star cast, including Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and my personal favourite, Shirley MacLaine as Ouiser. It’s a story about the bond between a bunch of women, who on the...
One Small Step
A few weeks ago my husband Glenn and I each passed the 1,000,000 step mark on WalkerTracker, the web-based program we use to track our pedometer steps. Let’s think about that - a million steps. If someone had told me in April that I was setting out to walk a million...
Technology Meets Global Education
Imagine there’s a heaven… Where every kid learns at his or her own pace, in accordance with their learning style, with an emphasis on what interests them. Well, heaven has moved a step closer to reality, as described in this article by Wired Magazine and in...
Nature or Nurture? Try Emergenetics.
Our three golden retrievers have very distinctive personalities, as was illustrated when my husband Glenn and I took them all out for ice cream the other night. We walked over to the local ice-cream parlour and purchased a vanilla kiddie cone for each of them. Ben,...
The Evils of Officiousness
If there is a human trait that rubs me raw it’s officiousness, and its close cousins, piousness and righteousness. A most unholy alliance. Due to my Scottish ancestry, I’m naturally a dark brunette, or at least I was for the first chunk of my life. Now I owe my...
Happiness Is Not For Sissies
In Where is its mind? What the battle over the ‘bible’ says about psychiatry, Ian Brown, feature editor of the Globe and Mail, takes the view that the upcoming fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM V) has inflated the definition of mental illness...
Pack Your SCARF
A couple of nights ago my husband, Glenn and I had an excellent meal with a bottle of wine at one of our favourite local restaurants. We were full of bonhomie as the evening drew to a close, and I excused myself to use the facilities before heading off on our walk...
Star of The King’s Speech, Lionel Logue, Coach
I recently watched The King’s Speech for the second time, and as is often the case when we “resee” something, I came away with a very different perspective. This time I saw a story beneath the story. I was intrigued by how Lionel Logue was modeled after a modern-day...
The Positive Core™
One of our clients forwarded us a link to a whitepaper written by TalentSmart, provider of the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal® and the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal® - Multi-Rater Edition (360º). The article and YouTube video were both excellent, so we are...
The Magical Satisfaction of Feedback Loops
I’ve acquired a constant companion, and not because it’s an attractive fashion accessory. Au contraire. The thing is a dratted nuisance and its lumpy protrusion from pocket or belt spoils the line of any outfit. No, my pedometer goes with me everywhere because I’ve become addicted to the satisfaction of gaining the magical 10,000 steps each day, and chalking up points on Walker Tracker, an online site for pedometrized walkers.
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