Category: Tips & Opinions

Management / Co-worker’s Tip:   Think of one positive quality, added value, characteristic, trait, project, idea, each person in your team offers and let them know.  Put this into practice on a weekly basis.  Find something different each week and make a point of mentioning it to each person individually.    This can also work for co-workers […]

Taking people for granted: We have all been guilty of this at some point in our lives.  The expression “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone”, comes to mind.  So, before that happens, take a moment to think of the loved ones in your life and if you lost them – think of […]

WCB:  Worker’s Compensation Board:    The Workers Compensation Board promotes safety and health in Manitoba workplaces and aims to help prevent and reduce the occurrence of workplace injuries and disease. Working with its partners, the WCB promotes safe and healthy workplaces, facilitates recovery and return to work, provides compassionate and supportive compensation services for workers and […]

Autopilot Mode – It is amazing and surprising to me how often we operate and function on autopilot on a daily basis.   I have started to recognize this and shift from autopilot mode to manual mode to become more conscience and mindful of my what I am doing.    If we stay on autopilot we tend […]

Accidents: What do you consider an accident to be?    Accidents happen throughout our life, both personally and professionally.  Some are minuscule, they can be many different varying sizes and scales, some are massive and some can even end in death.  The thing about accidents is that they are unplanned – they happen and then we […]

You Matter:  Realize you are important to this world because you woke up!  You do not have to do or be anything – you matter!  We get so caught up in the act of appreciation, acceptance, approval, doing something to get something that we tend to apply that to our life, our worth…  We feel […]

Near Misses:  What is your definition of a near miss?    To me, it is kind of self-explanatory – a near miss…  it is something that has occurred or taken place that could have caused damage, bodily harm or otherwise, but for some reason it didn’t…  We have many of these incidents in a day, if […]

Triggers:  Everyone has them.  They are things that come up in the present that remind us of the past and not in a good way.  It can happen with friendships, but most of the time it happens with relationships – partners.  Your ex has done something that caused you great pain and now you are […]

Ergonomics for People Working from Home:  This is something that office spaces have been working on perfecting over the last decade to create a better, healthier work place environment for the health and safety of their employees.  Now that a lot more people are working from home, they may start having issues they will need […]

The Golden Rule:  Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.  Which means treat others how you want to be treated.  I grew up living and being taught this rule.  This works to an extent but as we have grown and evolved, some people have continued in this manner but on many […]

Vehicle Battery Safety:  Recently this was brought to my attention as a friend of a friend was hurt this year and was hospitalized for a while and may have lifelong repercussions because of it.  It is something I wasn’t aware that could happen.  I am sure lots of people reading this will already know this […]

Friendships:  Friends are an important part of life.  True friendships take time establish.  In order to have a true friend, you need to allow a certain vulnerability, level of honesty, trust and respect.    A lot of people aren’t totally honest with themselves, so it makes it difficult to trust someone else on that level.  It […]