Category: Tips & Opinions

The Importance of Music:  Music connects us to ourselves, each other, family, friends, places, memories, moments in time, and many other occasions and moments. We have songs that give us peace, that make us smile & laugh, that make us want to dance or jump around, songs we exercise to, songs that remind us of […]

Significance of Colors: The Color of St. Patrick’s Day is Green – which has symbolized luck to me but there is a whole different symbolism behind St. Patrick’s Day.  See the below link for reference. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2020/03/17/st-patricks-day-why-wear-green-who-was-he-more/5020436002/ Just like names and numbers have a significant meaning and patterns, so do colors. Colors have symbolism and representation.  […]

The Importance of Data:  I have always been a numbers person – they have always intrigued me.  Numbers are the universal language in my opinion. 1+1=2 in every language.  Numbers don’t lie – they just are.  Being accurate with numbers has always been important to me – which is probably why I did bookkeeping on […]

Significance of Numbers:  I have always been a numbers person – they have always intrigued me.  Numbers are the universal language in my opinion. 1+1=2 in every language.  Numbers don’t lie – they just are. What is behind the numbers – just as names have a significant meaning, numbers do as well.  I have explored […]

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 […]

Significance of Names: Do you know the meaning and significance of your name? I have an interesting book that has intrigued me with the meaning of names and taken them a bit deeper.  It is by Dorothea Austin – https://www.hpb.com/products/the-name-book-9781556619823 It gives the Origin, Inherent Meaning, Spiritual Connotation and Scripture.  It has been a book […]

Reality of Life: I am back – it has been a while.  Sometimes, you need to know when to take a break.  A family member that lives far away had recently got into a car accident.  Having to deal with it through great distance and time change is never easy.  I helped another family member […]

Obituary:  Why would I create my own obituary – this is what I mentioned in yesterday’s post. I made a choice to write my own obituary because I am the only person who truly knows my own story. Having other people write it puts the obituary in their perspective and they highlight only what they […]

Priorities:  I have talked about two subjects over the past few months – priorities and time off. Due to some recent circumstances, I am having to listen to my own advice – lol! I am needing to take at least a week off in order to prioritize a family emergency and be where I am […]

Funeral Arrangements:  People have the option to make these decisions prior to their demise with Funeral Homes.  It is definitely something to look into and put down on paper.  It also gives you the option to start paying a small fee on this instead of burdening others with the cost of this. My parents have […]

Death:  Now that we have discussed a few different topics around this subject, let’s talk about the subject itself.  Death. This is a subject that many people do not want to think about or talk about with others. Recognize that at some point in our lives, this is actually going to happen to all of […]