Paying attention to productivity leads to better profits in one-third of the Canadian small and medium-sized companies that measure their overall productivity index. Seems like a slam-dunk, doesn’t it? But a 2016 survey of over 1500 Canadian entrepreneurs by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) showed that less than half of Canada’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) measure their…
Having to be right all the time is a horrendous burden. First, it is impossible to attain. And second, striving to make it so surprisingly harms your health. I suspect this tendency of mine served to set me up for the fibromyalgia I eventually developed. Thankfully I figured out how to give up on being right and reduce stress. Which…
When you create brand content, think of it as the emotional connection that converts a consumer into a customer. More than 80 percent of consumers are researching –and shopping – online (Retailing Today, 2014). So, thinking strategically about how your content positions and reflects your brand personality is key. What is Content? To make sure we’re on the same page, content is…
Experience has taught me that trading fibro shame for acceptance leads to better quality of life. Is it a factor of my age? The length of time I’ve had fibro? Or is it that I’m in a better state of mental health than when I was first diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2003? I don’t know. But today, I share the fact of…
All or nothing thinking is harmful in a number of ways. It limits a whole world of possibilities by trying to force everything into one of two polar extremes. It creates unattainable expectations, for example: if I’m not absolutely perfect at everything, I must be an abject failure. Or, when the unrealistic ideal of perfection can’t be realized, I take…
I have fibromyalgia, and I have STILL stumbled across the best-kept secret for guaranteed great sleep. Fibromyalgia and sleep are not easy bedfellows, as you know all too well if you have fibro. I’ve been having the BEST sleep lately. Sleeping right through a solid six to eight hours, without even getting up to pee. It was as I was quitting…
I used to be the master of get-everything-done now, and perfectly. I could rock my job all week, care for my young son, get to fitness classes, and still find the time and energy to clean my entire house, grocery shop and host a dinner party on Saturday. The very thought of that now makes me feel faint. When first diagnosed…
The best opportunity you have to create a winning business culture is at the beginning. It’s easy to overlook or ignore culture when you’re in the startup phase because there’s just so much other stuff to worry about. Creating culture is not easy, by any stretch. It’s complex, it’s often misunderstood, and it’s easy to get it wrong. What is Culture? …
One of the biggest challenges for any entrepreneur is cash flow management. Your hard work, great ideas, solid customer base and popular products or services mean nothing if you have trouble with cash flow. Here are five steps to get it under control.
Many of us with fibromyalgia are deficient in a number of minerals, including magnesium. Magnesium is known as “the relaxation mineral”, an important antidote to stress. Given the direct relationship between stress and fibro symptoms, at least for me, it makes sense to try to boost levels of magnesium for fibromyalgia. Why Magnesium for Fibromyalgia It’s the most important mineral…