Personal Skills

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.

You lost another client last week, but what’s new? That kind of thing has been happening for two years. Prices keep going up while sales goes down, everybody seems to know “what’s good for business”, and clients keep canceling. You know you’re not alone, but that doesn’t mean you’re enjoying this New Reality. It’s all so discouraging.

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.

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick.