Category Archives: Life lessons
2020 comes to a close
Saying 2020 has been an “interesting” year has become a bit of a cliché. And that phrase is much like the curse: “May you live in interesting times”. One thing that has been both a blessing and a curse is working from home. Personally, I enjoy the quiet as it gives my aging brain time […]
Get It Right the First Time
Here is a story I heard today at a PD session. The seminar leader’s nephew was a young lad of 3. It was hair cut time and up to the dad, brother of our speaker, to take him to the barber as directed by mom. Dad takes son to the local barber. The local barber […]
The problem with condominium (strata) ownership
As noted in my last post, we recently moved out of strata living to a freehold house. I should first point out that while the rest of the country has some form of Condominium home ownership law, in British Columbia, densified housing ownership may be governed by the Strata Property Act. In BC, we refer […]
A New Year and 2020 vision
Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward and just see where all the business pitfalls would happen? Wouldn’t it be great if we knew someone would be ill and we could adjust staffing accordingly? What if we could see that what looked like a golden opportunity was really going to be a big […]