Living

Your financial goals for the next year are set.On the list are things like “pay off credit cards” and “save for retirement.” You’ll be putting some money away for your business or for emergencies.

The first one was easily dealt with.You plucked it and threw it away, and made a mental note: buy hair dye. But then that one gray strand was accompanied by others, followed by wrinkles and in an increasing number of failing body parts.

In the last three years, you’ve lost plenty. You’ve lost business, first of all, and maybe your job. You lost clients, investments, money, and opportunity. You might’ve lost your house and your confidence, too. It’s enough to make you lose your mind. But there’s still fight in you and things are looking up. So now it’s time to examine your losses by reading Necessary Endings by Dr. Henry Cloud. You’ll see how those terminations might’ve been the best thing that ever happened.

Queen of Your Own Life is a philosophy, a decision and invitation to happiness for women who have made the tough but rewarding journey to the midpoint in their lives. Kathy Kinney (best known as Mimi on The Drew Carey Show) and Cindy Ratzlaff (marketing guru behind the launch of The South Beach Diet) have been best friends for more than thirty years, and have helped each other navigate the ups and downs of their lives with humour and grace.

Oh no, I thought. Yet another author is trying to make us introverts more extraverted. Worse, she claims to be an introvert herself - double shame, Carole Cameron, for turning against your own kind.