Category: Tips & Opinions

Promotions:  Promoting the wrong people will create an environment to lose your best people… When you are thinking of promoting people to a management or supervisory position – keep the following things in mind: Unfortunately, many people are promoted for the wrong reason… These are just a few examples, however, I believe you understand the […]

Being Stuck:  Sometimes you are in a position where you are not moving forward.  Those times can create different struggles. However, in that moment, stop where you are and take a good look around… are you: There have been times in my life where I have definitely been stuck and not moving forward. Those are […]

Expanding your Business:  Easily said, not as easily done… There are many different ways to look at growth. You could merge or acquire another business which increases your customer base but that requires more than what some people are expecting to do, advertising, marketing, The key to business growth is strategizing and brainstorming. Taking the […]

Worry:  Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s trouble – it takes away today’s peace.  A friend of mine sent that to me the other day. I found this saying to be pretty powerful. I was raised by a mom who believes worrying is part of her traits as a majority of her family had that […]

Business Structure:  What does your business model & organizational chart look like? Is it working for you? Think of it a different way – again this is strictly my opinion… Do you think the way our current government is structured is working and serving our country?  I do not. Companies restructure, reorganize, and make changes […]

Overthinking:  I have spent much of my life overthinking things. It has only been in the last 5 years that I have been able to break this habit, over time. I can say I am free of it now as things do not consume me.  I let them go and let life flow. I used […]

Marketing:  Online marketing is a different skill set than marketing of old. First let’s review the different types of marketing: 9 different types of marketing taken from:  https://mailchimp.com/en-ca/resources/types-of-marketing/ This website says there are 41 types of marketing: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/marketing-types This one says 19 types:  https://asana.com/resources/types-of-marketing 40 Effective Strategies:  https://www.wix.com/blog/2021/06/types-of-marketing/ After looking at these, you can see […]

Stretching:  This is what I call the zone when life gets uncomfortable. We all have our comfort zones and then the times where life gets uncomfortable. This is when you are being stretched, changing, going through things. In your comfort zone, you feel safe, secure, confident, relaxed and generally happy.  Life seems to be going […]

Presentations:  We have all seen some sort of presentation – whether live or online. Questions to Ponder: What do you notice about them? What captures your interest? What bores you? Do you understand their graphs or material? Do they read word for word from their slide or do they summarize? A presentation should hold your […]

Negative People:  Stay away from negative people.  They have a problem for every solution. – Albert Einstein Isn’t that the truth… I never thought about it that way exactly until I read that somewhere. Negative people have a way of feeding off of things… Something inside them needs to be fed with negativity and they […]

Time Management Tip:  We all have a lot to accomplish in a day, a week, etc.  When you focus on too many things at once, nothing seems to get accomplished.  Mark down your top 3 things for the day and try your best to accomplish those.  At the end of each day, cross off the […]

Future:  Does your past dictate your future? We tend to repeat the past and make the same mistakes – with work, with people, with relationships, etc. Many people seem to be facing forward but their feet are facing backward… I say that because they are trying to move forward in life while putting themselves back […]