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Thursday, May 30, 2013
long weekend/ Skyfall/ prom surprise
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Please help me save my brother's life
I got this from Amnesty International:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=519576&msource=W1305EAIAR1
Dear Tracy,
Please help Amnesty stop the imminent execution of my brother, Abdullah Al Qahtani.
This week my brother's life could be taken for a "confession" he was tortured into making. Abdullah was beaten, burned and asphyxiated by Iraqi security forces into "confessing" to being a member of terrorist organization al-Qaeda.
Now our fear is that the Iraqi authorities will execute Abdullah without even allowing him to have a fair trial first. It could happen at any time now.
Please do what you can to stop this execution.
About a month ago, Amnesty called on you to stop my brother's execution. Together, we have been successful in buying some time. For that, I would like to express my family's heartfelt thanks and gratitude to you, Amnesty supporters, for your precious help and support. It has brought much needed attention to Abdullah's plight.
However, Abdullah's time is once again running out. If the Iraqi court agrees with the prosecutor that Abdullah should not get a new trial, then a deadly chain of events would be put in motion. In less than 24 hours -- without fair trial or even a phone call to us, his family -- Abdullah's execution could be carried out.
Abdullah needs an opportunity to present his case fully and fairly. He deserves the chance to exercise his human rights.
Please take this action from Amnesty International asking authorities to stop the execution of my brother.
This risk of execution has placed our family under great stress. Abdullah is in poor health after enduring both torture and the effects of a hunger strike. Our parents are suffering. I don't know if our mother has the strength to survive if Abdullah were to be executed.
We plead with Amnesty and its supporters to do everything possible to stop Abdullah from being treated inhumanely and for his rights to be restored.
Please take this action now. Help me save my brother's life.
My deepest thanks,
Brother of Abdullah Al Qahtani, Saudi man at risk of execution in Iraq
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=519576&msource=W1305EAIAR1
Dear Tracy,
Please help Amnesty stop the imminent execution of my brother, Abdullah Al Qahtani.
This week my brother's life could be taken for a "confession" he was tortured into making. Abdullah was beaten, burned and asphyxiated by Iraqi security forces into "confessing" to being a member of terrorist organization al-Qaeda.
Now our fear is that the Iraqi authorities will execute Abdullah without even allowing him to have a fair trial first. It could happen at any time now.
Please do what you can to stop this execution.
About a month ago, Amnesty called on you to stop my brother's execution. Together, we have been successful in buying some time. For that, I would like to express my family's heartfelt thanks and gratitude to you, Amnesty supporters, for your precious help and support. It has brought much needed attention to Abdullah's plight.
However, Abdullah's time is once again running out. If the Iraqi court agrees with the prosecutor that Abdullah should not get a new trial, then a deadly chain of events would be put in motion. In less than 24 hours -- without fair trial or even a phone call to us, his family -- Abdullah's execution could be carried out.
Abdullah needs an opportunity to present his case fully and fairly. He deserves the chance to exercise his human rights.
Please take this action from Amnesty International asking authorities to stop the execution of my brother.
This risk of execution has placed our family under great stress. Abdullah is in poor health after enduring both torture and the effects of a hunger strike. Our parents are suffering. I don't know if our mother has the strength to survive if Abdullah were to be executed.
We plead with Amnesty and its supporters to do everything possible to stop Abdullah from being treated inhumanely and for his rights to be restored.
Please take this action now. Help me save my brother's life.
My deepest thanks,
Brother of Abdullah Al Qahtani, Saudi man at risk of execution in Iraq
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
fairytales/ writing therapy/ Bryce Courtney
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Article: Travelocity Founder on Innovation
I got this from Ginny Grimsely:
4 Ways to Turn Your Company
Into an Innovation Machine
Travelocity, Kayak.com Founder Offers
Tips for Culture Change
The world’s future leaders overwhelmingly believe that today’s businesses cangrowonly if they can innovate – and that today’s business leaders aren’t demonstrating they’re up to the task.
While that’s the thinking of nearly 5,000millennials – the 20- to 33-year-old generation – at least one baby boomer, the innovator who transformed the U.S. travel industry with his creation of Travelocity and Kayak.com, agrees.
“The future for any business today depends entirely on its ability to innovate, and the youngest adults, ‘the idea generation,’ know that,” says Terry Jones, author of “On Innovation,” (www.tbjones.com/terrys-book), a light-hearted but practical guide for fostering and innovation.
“The millennials are the group known for pioneering new ideas, rethinking processes, end-running hierarchies and solving problems by doing what simply makes sense to them. We need to listen to them; they’re the innovators!"
But the worldwide survey of adults born after 1982 found that only 26 percent believe their bosses are doing enough to encourage innovation. The study by Deloitte ToucheTohmatsu Limited, publishedin January, reported 78 percent believe innovation is crucial for growing businesses.
Jones says there are some definite steps business leaders can and should take to ensure their company is hearing employees’ ideas, recognizingopportunities, and ensuring a clear path to execution.
1. Build a culture of experimentation. Not every project will succeed but you can’t learn from mistakes if you don’t allow them to happen. The corollary: Always analyze what went wrong. Why didn’t it work? To use a sports analogy, watch the “game films" to improve and learn as much from failure as you do from success. One fast and easy way to experiment is to test options out online. Whether it’s polling customers, measuring which approach gets the best response, or allowing a segment of your customer base to test drive a new tool, the results can be invaluable..
2. Kill projects not people. In many companies, people stop offering up ideas and volunteering for projects because the punishment for failure is greater than the reward for success. Lunch with the boss or a $100 bonus do not compensate for the risk of being demoted or fired, or suffering a tarnished reputation. When a project fails in a company with a culture of experimentation, the first thing you shoulddo is say, "Bob, what would you like to work on now?!"
3. Break thru the “Bozone layer.” Some of the greatest ideas for innovation will come from the employees on the front lines – those in direct contact with customers or production. But their ideas will never float up to the executive suite if you’ve created a “Bozone layer” by making it too risky for middle managers to experiment. (See No. 2.) While you’re turning the culture around, find ways to reach down to the front lines to solicit ideas. Implement them and reward the contributors with a big, public shout out – which will help you start changing for the culture.
4. Install “sensors” to pick up customers’ ideas. Don’t just look to employees for innovation – learn from your customers. They have ideas for new products and new uses for existing products, and their customer service complaints are a fertile source of ideas for improvement. Listen! Social media or a forum on the company website is a good sensor for picking up ideas; Glad Wrap’s 1000 Uses site is loaded with them. For customer service complaints, Travelocityinstalled a lobby phone booth where anyone in the company could listen in on customer service calls. Once a month, everyone was expected to provide feedback on at least two of those calls, and suggest an improvement to eliminate similar future calls plus a work-around for the interim.
4 Ways to Turn Your Company
Into an Innovation Machine
Travelocity, Kayak.com Founder Offers
Tips for Culture Change
The world’s future leaders overwhelmingly believe that today’s businesses cangrowonly if they can innovate – and that today’s business leaders aren’t demonstrating they’re up to the task.
While that’s the thinking of nearly 5,000millennials – the 20- to 33-year-old generation – at least one baby boomer, the innovator who transformed the U.S. travel industry with his creation of Travelocity and Kayak.com, agrees.
“The future for any business today depends entirely on its ability to innovate, and the youngest adults, ‘the idea generation,’ know that,” says Terry Jones, author of “On Innovation,” (www.tbjones.com/terrys-book), a light-hearted but practical guide for fostering and innovation.
“The millennials are the group known for pioneering new ideas, rethinking processes, end-running hierarchies and solving problems by doing what simply makes sense to them. We need to listen to them; they’re the innovators!"
But the worldwide survey of adults born after 1982 found that only 26 percent believe their bosses are doing enough to encourage innovation. The study by Deloitte ToucheTohmatsu Limited, publishedin January, reported 78 percent believe innovation is crucial for growing businesses.
Jones says there are some definite steps business leaders can and should take to ensure their company is hearing employees’ ideas, recognizingopportunities, and ensuring a clear path to execution.
1. Build a culture of experimentation. Not every project will succeed but you can’t learn from mistakes if you don’t allow them to happen. The corollary: Always analyze what went wrong. Why didn’t it work? To use a sports analogy, watch the “game films" to improve and learn as much from failure as you do from success. One fast and easy way to experiment is to test options out online. Whether it’s polling customers, measuring which approach gets the best response, or allowing a segment of your customer base to test drive a new tool, the results can be invaluable..
2. Kill projects not people. In many companies, people stop offering up ideas and volunteering for projects because the punishment for failure is greater than the reward for success. Lunch with the boss or a $100 bonus do not compensate for the risk of being demoted or fired, or suffering a tarnished reputation. When a project fails in a company with a culture of experimentation, the first thing you shoulddo is say, "Bob, what would you like to work on now?!"
3. Break thru the “Bozone layer.” Some of the greatest ideas for innovation will come from the employees on the front lines – those in direct contact with customers or production. But their ideas will never float up to the executive suite if you’ve created a “Bozone layer” by making it too risky for middle managers to experiment. (See No. 2.) While you’re turning the culture around, find ways to reach down to the front lines to solicit ideas. Implement them and reward the contributors with a big, public shout out – which will help you start changing for the culture.
4. Install “sensors” to pick up customers’ ideas. Don’t just look to employees for innovation – learn from your customers. They have ideas for new products and new uses for existing products, and their customer service complaints are a fertile source of ideas for improvement. Listen! Social media or a forum on the company website is a good sensor for picking up ideas; Glad Wrap’s 1000 Uses site is loaded with them. For customer service complaints, Travelocityinstalled a lobby phone booth where anyone in the company could listen in on customer service calls. Once a month, everyone was expected to provide feedback on at least two of those calls, and suggest an improvement to eliminate similar future calls plus a work-around for the interim.
About Terry
Jones
Terry Jones founded Travelocity.com in 1996 and led the
company as president and CEO until May 2002. He is managing principal of On,
Inc, a consultancy he cofounded to help companies in their transition to the
digital economy, and serves as chairman of the board at Kayak.com, which he also
helped found. Previously Jones had a 24-year career at American Airlines holding
various executive positions, rising to Chief Information Officer at their SABRE
Division. Jones is the holder of several patents, has served on the boards of
directors of 10 companies and began his career as a travel agent in Chicago. He
holds a degree in history from Denison University.
Article: Work Life Balance
I got this from Ginny Grimsley:
People are overwhelmed with the complexities of their own
lives and are desperately seeking a way to maximize happiness in their home and
work lives, says Gary Kunath, an entrepreneur, speaker and former CEO who works
with some of the world’s top corporations and business schools.
“I used to be caught up in the spin cycle of thinking that net worth automatically afforded me life worth,” says Kunath, a speaker at top business schools and author of “Life ... Don't Miss It. I Almost Did: How I Learned To Live Life To The Fullest,” (www.lifedontmissitbook.com).
“I sacrificed time with my family with the justification that I was providing necessary material things, but at a certain point you realize that money doesn’t make you rich, it just allows you to buy more stuff.”
Priorities for professionals have shifted; now, U.S. workers seek family wellbeing above all else, he says. Companies need to recognize that it’s imperative to positively affect their employees’ lives, both inside and outside working quarters, he says.
“We need to bring humanity back to business,” Kunath says. “Leading corporations are aware that most professionals today – 70 percent – would trade a pay raise for an increase in personal wellness.”
But employers are struggling with that, he says, citing a new American Psychological Association survey released in March in which 48 percent of employees say their employers don’t value a good work-life balance.
More professionals are trying to find a path to life worth, rather than centering their behavior on net worth, Kunath says. He offers five ways career-minded individuals can achieve both:
Mastering Life Balance:
Achieving Greatness
at Home and at Work
5 Tips from Former Businessman of the Year
at Home and at Work
5 Tips from Former Businessman of the Year
“I used to be caught up in the spin cycle of thinking that net worth automatically afforded me life worth,” says Kunath, a speaker at top business schools and author of “Life ... Don't Miss It. I Almost Did: How I Learned To Live Life To The Fullest,” (www.lifedontmissitbook.com).
“I sacrificed time with my family with the justification that I was providing necessary material things, but at a certain point you realize that money doesn’t make you rich, it just allows you to buy more stuff.”
Priorities for professionals have shifted; now, U.S. workers seek family wellbeing above all else, he says. Companies need to recognize that it’s imperative to positively affect their employees’ lives, both inside and outside working quarters, he says.
“We need to bring humanity back to business,” Kunath says. “Leading corporations are aware that most professionals today – 70 percent – would trade a pay raise for an increase in personal wellness.”
But employers are struggling with that, he says, citing a new American Psychological Association survey released in March in which 48 percent of employees say their employers don’t value a good work-life balance.
More professionals are trying to find a path to life worth, rather than centering their behavior on net worth, Kunath says. He offers five ways career-minded individuals can achieve both:
• Look for signs you’re falling into the net-worth trap: For Kunath, those signs were clear. One day, he says, “it was like someone had smacked me on the head,” when his son, then 12, walked away in dismay after Kunath said he couldn’t play baseball with him because he was too busy working on a business proposal. “The look of disappointment on my son’s face was something I will never forget,” he says. Kunath dropped everything and spent the day with his son. “I promised that would NEVER happen again”. The next occurrence included a mental and physical breakdown after Kunath pushed himself to make an unnecessary business trip while sick. After a 19-hour ordeal in a delayed flight to Spain, “…I knew in my bones that if I did not draw the line right there … I would ruin every part of my life that mattered to me.”
• Don’t be an employee, be employable: Unless you are self-employed, you are always vulnerable to someone else controlling your professional destiny, and therefore, your life worth. But employees can empower themselves by diversifying their skills so that they can have more choices about where and for whom to work.
• Bad things happen to good people: Adversity finds us all. No one enjoys the worst, most painful moments of their lives. Nonetheless, life events like loss of a loved one, financial ruin, divorce, addictions or illness tend to define us. We need adversity in our lives. Anyone can be a rock star when life is perfect. But when adversity strikes, then the “real” you is revealed. How you face adversity can either extinguish you or distinguish you.
• Believe in something bigger than you: There will be times when you are utterly helpless, with no control over an outcome. All the money in the bank and all the authority at work will do no good when it comes to, for instance, the death of a loved one. Believing in something bigger than you is an important part of having life worth; it helps you maintain your emotional health when you face life’s biggest challenges.
• Don’t Major in the Minors: As Henry David Thoreau wrote, “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” For every evening spent late in the office there are moments professionals miss out on – and can never get back. Many of us spend time on things that ultimately don’t matter. “The three greatest gifts you can give to your family are: Time, Memories and Tradition,” he says. “These are things in life that matter.”
About Gary
Kunath
Gary Kunath is the founder of The Summit Group, which is
ranked among the top sales-training companies in the world by Selling Power
magazine. His value-creation approach received the “Innovative Practice of the
Year Award” by 3M worldwide. He was named Businessman of the Year for the United
States and was recognized a dinner hosted by the president of the United States.
He has lectured extensively at several prominent business schools, and he is
currently an adjunct professor at The Citadel’s Sports Marketing graduate
program. Kunath is as an owner of several professional minor league baseball
teams along with his partners, Bill Murray, Jimmy Buffet and Mike Veeck. The
group is famous for managing its teams around the “Fun is Good” approach.
Article: Planning for Retirement
I got this from Ginny Grimsley:
Transitioning from CEO to Retiree:
Why You Need a 5-Year Plan
3 Steps You Can Take Now to Realize Your Goals
Today’s 50-something CEOs tend to have vague dreams of more fishing, traveling or sailing when they retire, but they don’t know when that might be so they haven’t begun planning for it.
That’s a mistake, say a trio of specialists: wealth management advisor Haitham “Hutch” Ashoo, CPA Jim Kohles, and estate planning attorney John Hartog.
“Whether you’re selling your company, passing it along to a successor or simply retiring, that’s a potentially irreversible life event – you’ve got just one chance to get it right,” says Ashoo, CEO of Pillar Wealth Management, (www.pillarwm.com).
A 2012 survey of CEOs by executive search firm Witt/Kieffer found 71 percent of those aged 55 to 59 have no retirement plan, although 73 percent look forward to more recreational and leisure activities when they let go of the reins.
“A lot of baby boomers have the idea that they’re just going to work till they stop working,” says Kohles, chairman of RINA accountancy corporation, (www.rina.com). “If they hope to do certain things in retirement and maintain a certain lifestyle, they’re likely to end up disappointed.”
Planning for the transition from CEO to retiree should incorporate everything – including what happens to your assets after you’re gone, adds John Hartog of Hartog & Baer Trust and Estate Law, (www.hartogbaer.com).
“Many of my clients worry about what effects a large inheritance will have on their children – they want to continue parenting from the grave. You can, but should think hard about doing that,” he says.
The three say smart planning requires coordinating among all of your advisors; that’s the best way to avoid an irrevocable mistake. With that in mind, Ashoo, Kohles and Hartog offer these suggestions and considerations from their respective areas of expertise:
Each goal will have a dollar amount attached, and you (or
your advisor) can then determine whether it’s feasible and, if so, put together
a financial plan.
“But you can’t just create a plan and forget it. You need to monitor its progress regularly and make adjustments to make sure you’re staying on course, just like you would if you were sailing or flying,” Ashoo says. “We run our clients’ plans quarterly.“
It’s also imperative that you don’t take any undue risks – that is, risks beyond what’s necessary to meet your goals, he says. “You may hear about a great investment opportunity and want in on it, but if you lose that money, you may not have a chance to make it up.”
2. Kohles: Don’t sell yourself short when selling your business. “If you’re banking on money from the sale of your business, know that it’s unlikely you’ll have investors just waiting with the cash for the chance to buy it when you’re ready to sell,” Kohles says.
Buyers are more likely to offer to pay over time from the company’s future earnings -- which leaves the retired CEO with no control over the business and utterly reliant on the new owners to maintain its profitability.
A good alternative is to establish an S corporation combined with an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), Kohles says.
“You’re selling the company to the employees while retaining control until you phase yourself completely out,” he says. “The ESOP doesn’t pay income taxes – the employees do when they retire. And you don’t pay taxes on the money or the stock that you contribute.”
3. Hartog: What do you want your kids’ inheritance to say? If you have children, this decision can change their lives for the better – or the worse.
“How your assets are disposed of should reflect your values,” Hartog says. “A lot of people prefer to think in terms of taxes at the expense of values. I advise against that.”
For children, incentive trusts can encourage, or discourage, certain behaviors.
“If you’re concerned your adult child won’t be productive if he has a lot of money, set up a trust that will make distributions equal to what the child earns himself,” Hartog says.
“Or, if you want to be supportive of a child who’s doing something socially responsible, like teaching in an impoverished area, you can set it up to pay twice his salary.”
There are many creative ways to establish trusts, Hartog says. Plan about five years out and change the trust as life events dictate.
Transitioning from CEO to Retiree:
Why You Need a 5-Year Plan
3 Steps You Can Take Now to Realize Your Goals
Today’s 50-something CEOs tend to have vague dreams of more fishing, traveling or sailing when they retire, but they don’t know when that might be so they haven’t begun planning for it.
That’s a mistake, say a trio of specialists: wealth management advisor Haitham “Hutch” Ashoo, CPA Jim Kohles, and estate planning attorney John Hartog.
“Whether you’re selling your company, passing it along to a successor or simply retiring, that’s a potentially irreversible life event – you’ve got just one chance to get it right,” says Ashoo, CEO of Pillar Wealth Management, (www.pillarwm.com).
A 2012 survey of CEOs by executive search firm Witt/Kieffer found 71 percent of those aged 55 to 59 have no retirement plan, although 73 percent look forward to more recreational and leisure activities when they let go of the reins.
“A lot of baby boomers have the idea that they’re just going to work till they stop working,” says Kohles, chairman of RINA accountancy corporation, (www.rina.com). “If they hope to do certain things in retirement and maintain a certain lifestyle, they’re likely to end up disappointed.”
Planning for the transition from CEO to retiree should incorporate everything – including what happens to your assets after you’re gone, adds John Hartog of Hartog & Baer Trust and Estate Law, (www.hartogbaer.com).
“Many of my clients worry about what effects a large inheritance will have on their children – they want to continue parenting from the grave. You can, but should think hard about doing that,” he says.
The three say smart planning requires coordinating among all of your advisors; that’s the best way to avoid an irrevocable mistake. With that in mind, Ashoo, Kohles and Hartog offer these suggestions and considerations from their respective areas of expertise:
1. Ashoo:
Identify your specific lifestyle goals for retirement, so you can plan for
funding them. To determine how much money you’ll need, you have to have
a clear picture of what you want, Ashoo says. Do you see yourself on your own
yacht? Providing seed capital for your children to buy a business? Pursuing
charitable endeavors?
“But you can’t just create a plan and forget it. You need to monitor its progress regularly and make adjustments to make sure you’re staying on course, just like you would if you were sailing or flying,” Ashoo says. “We run our clients’ plans quarterly.“
It’s also imperative that you don’t take any undue risks – that is, risks beyond what’s necessary to meet your goals, he says. “You may hear about a great investment opportunity and want in on it, but if you lose that money, you may not have a chance to make it up.”
2. Kohles: Don’t sell yourself short when selling your business. “If you’re banking on money from the sale of your business, know that it’s unlikely you’ll have investors just waiting with the cash for the chance to buy it when you’re ready to sell,” Kohles says.
Buyers are more likely to offer to pay over time from the company’s future earnings -- which leaves the retired CEO with no control over the business and utterly reliant on the new owners to maintain its profitability.
A good alternative is to establish an S corporation combined with an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), Kohles says.
“You’re selling the company to the employees while retaining control until you phase yourself completely out,” he says. “The ESOP doesn’t pay income taxes – the employees do when they retire. And you don’t pay taxes on the money or the stock that you contribute.”
3. Hartog: What do you want your kids’ inheritance to say? If you have children, this decision can change their lives for the better – or the worse.
“How your assets are disposed of should reflect your values,” Hartog says. “A lot of people prefer to think in terms of taxes at the expense of values. I advise against that.”
For children, incentive trusts can encourage, or discourage, certain behaviors.
“If you’re concerned your adult child won’t be productive if he has a lot of money, set up a trust that will make distributions equal to what the child earns himself,” Hartog says.
“Or, if you want to be supportive of a child who’s doing something socially responsible, like teaching in an impoverished area, you can set it up to pay twice his salary.”
There are many creative ways to establish trusts, Hartog says. Plan about five years out and change the trust as life events dictate.
About Haitham “Hutch”
Ashoo
Haitham “Hutch” Ashoo is the CEO of Pillar Wealth
Management, LLC, in Walnut Creek, Calif. The firm specializes in client-centered
wealth management for ultra affluent families.
About Jim
Kohles
Jim Kohles is chairman of the board of RINA accountancy
corporation, Walnut Creek, Calif. A certified public accountant for more than 35
years, he specializes in business consulting, succession and retirement
planning, and insurance.
About John
Hartog
John Hartog is a partner at Hartog & Baer Trust and
Estate Law. A certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law,
and taxation law, he has been selected to the Super Lawyers Top 100 list for
nineconsecutive years.
planning ahead/ Rahmit Sethi/ good job sites
May 6 Planning Ahead:
I mentioned I was reading the Albertan magazine
called Legacy that I got back in 2007. It was when I was in the
Professional Writing program. There was an article "Planning Ahead- this time" by Paula Simons. She writes for the Edmonton Journal.
There was a bumper sticker slogan that was popular in Alberta in the early 1980s: "Please God, let there be another oil boom. I promise not to piss it all away next time."
The article was basically about how booms never last. You should live within your means and save your money.
"One evening, my family went for dinner at a restaurant at a brand-new hotel on Edmonton's south side. Our server, an older gentleman with a German accent, seemed unusually friendly and attentive. After he left our table, my mother quietly mentioned that the waiter had once owned the whole hotel. But the bank had foreclosed, leaving him to wait tables in the restaurant that had once been his.
It was a sobering morality tale- a home-grown parable about wealth, fate, and reversal of fortunes."
At the end of the article: "When this boom goes bust- as it inevitably will- what will Alberta have to show for it? How much are we saving? Where are we investing? What are we building as legacies for the future?"
Rahmit Sethi: I've been reading his book I Will Teach You to be Rich. It talked about how friends influence you to spend your money. There was a part of the book about how a person is told by a friend to buy this new phone, regardless if he needs a new one or not.
I don't tell my friends to buy things. I tell them to save their money. Remember my weekly email/ blog post that said this:
"In the Drake music video 'Find Your Love', at the end in big, capital, bold letters it says: 'FIND. YOUR. LOVE.' I would say: 'SAVE. YOUR. MONEY.'" lol.
The other things I tell you to do is: "Watch this TV show, listen to this song, check out this website" which isn't about spending money at all. Just time.
Job advice: I like reading advice columns like then I would know what to do if I or one of my friends, family, or co-worker was in this situation. I usually read life and dating advice columns like Ann Landers. I do like reading job advice columns.
Bad boss: I have this article "My 'Teflon' boss blames me for his unpopular decisions." It was in the Globe and Mail business section column called 'Nine to Five.' This Worker #1 writes in saying his boss creates this decisions and changes, and the worker who wrote in, he has to implement them. Then when workers complain, the boss blames it on the Worker #1 who wrote in. This was on Jul. 30, 2012.
Doug Nathanson, senior VP and chief human resources officer, Canadian Tire, Toronto says:
"...Include meeting with your manager's boss, engaging your HR department or using a whistle-blower or code-of-conduct reporting mechanism. Whichever option you choose, you should arm yourself with all the facts and as much supporting documentation as possible. I suspect you will be surprised to learn how many others are aware of your manager's behaviour once it is more openly discussed.
There is a degree of risk associated with standing up to your boss, but if it's done tactfully it is your best option."
Billy Anderson, Founder, Made You Think Coaching, Toronto:
"You could ask your boss' boss if it's possible for everyone to get a review because you think the department would benefit. In so doing you'll hopefully get the chance to air your frustrations."
Another tip was to diplomatically stand up to your boss in front of a group of people when he's being unfair. "Sometimes such people are only tough until someone calls them out. There is a risk he'll hold it against after that, but do you have anything to lose at this point?"
He also said the same thing above about a paper trail like keeping inappropriate or contradictory emails from the boss.
Also work on your resume: "Simply starting the search is empowering- you feel like you're driving your own bus instead of being thrown under his."
Good job sites: In the Globe and Mail business section there are these tips.
Addictive Tips: There is usually a tech tip from addictivetips.com. These are all tech tips from computers like Mac, Windows, Android, etc. Check it out:
http://www.addictivetips.com/
I thought that was a good question that I put it in my inspirational quotes.
Strategy+ business: It also mentioned this website. There are some really good job articles. It lead me to this "6 Secrets to Doing Less."
1. What isn't there can often trump what is.
2. The simplest rules create the most effective experience.
3. Limiting information engages the imagination.
4. Creativity thrives under intelligent constraints.
5. Break is the important part of breakthrough.
6. Doing something isn't always better than doing nothing.
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00156?pg=all
The Womack Report: This site is run by Jason Womack. There are lots of blog posts, videos, seminars, executive coaching to improve your job.
http://womackcompany.com/blog/
May 11 Linked In: Did you know that Linked In is now 10 yrs old? I got an email from them in my inbox. I then read it in the Edmonton Journal about how Linked In was in an office by the other social networking site Friendster. Of course, no one uses that anymore.
I remember last year I was at a wedding, and the MC was talking about how the married couple met. They knew each other when they were kids and lost touch, then reconnected through Friendster back in 2005. Now they're married....awww.
May 15 Newspapers: Last month my dad cancelled our National Post newspaper subscription which we had for years. We're trying to save our money and we subscribe to 2 other newspapers already like the Edmonton Journal and the Globe and Mail.
I remember the days since 2010, the Year of Unemployment where I was unemployed and read all the business sections of the 3 newspapers to be up on the business news. I didn't want to miss a thing about it because how the economy was going, was having some sort of an effect on my job search.
From 2010-2013 I was reading all 3 business sections of the newspapers. Now I'm down to 2. That's fine.
Widows and widowers: Ginny Grimsley sends me these articles and I decided to publish one of them. I asked if I could and she said yes. Here it is:
http://badcb.blogspot.ca/2013/05/article-tips-for-widows-and-widowers.html
I know for most of my friends, it's a long ways away to be thinking about death, but I thought this was a really important article. It mentions finances in it. I always read business articles about retirement, and what happens when you or your spouse dies, inheritances, etc. This article will apply to everybody at one time or another.
There was a bumper sticker slogan that was popular in Alberta in the early 1980s: "Please God, let there be another oil boom. I promise not to piss it all away next time."
The article was basically about how booms never last. You should live within your means and save your money.
"One evening, my family went for dinner at a restaurant at a brand-new hotel on Edmonton's south side. Our server, an older gentleman with a German accent, seemed unusually friendly and attentive. After he left our table, my mother quietly mentioned that the waiter had once owned the whole hotel. But the bank had foreclosed, leaving him to wait tables in the restaurant that had once been his.
It was a sobering morality tale- a home-grown parable about wealth, fate, and reversal of fortunes."
At the end of the article: "When this boom goes bust- as it inevitably will- what will Alberta have to show for it? How much are we saving? Where are we investing? What are we building as legacies for the future?"
Rahmit Sethi: I've been reading his book I Will Teach You to be Rich. It talked about how friends influence you to spend your money. There was a part of the book about how a person is told by a friend to buy this new phone, regardless if he needs a new one or not.
I don't tell my friends to buy things. I tell them to save their money. Remember my weekly email/ blog post that said this:
"In the Drake music video 'Find Your Love', at the end in big, capital, bold letters it says: 'FIND. YOUR. LOVE.' I would say: 'SAVE. YOUR. MONEY.'" lol.
The other things I tell you to do is: "Watch this TV show, listen to this song, check out this website" which isn't about spending money at all. Just time.
Job advice: I like reading advice columns like then I would know what to do if I or one of my friends, family, or co-worker was in this situation. I usually read life and dating advice columns like Ann Landers. I do like reading job advice columns.
Bad boss: I have this article "My 'Teflon' boss blames me for his unpopular decisions." It was in the Globe and Mail business section column called 'Nine to Five.' This Worker #1 writes in saying his boss creates this decisions and changes, and the worker who wrote in, he has to implement them. Then when workers complain, the boss blames it on the Worker #1 who wrote in. This was on Jul. 30, 2012.
Doug Nathanson, senior VP and chief human resources officer, Canadian Tire, Toronto says:
"...Include meeting with your manager's boss, engaging your HR department or using a whistle-blower or code-of-conduct reporting mechanism. Whichever option you choose, you should arm yourself with all the facts and as much supporting documentation as possible. I suspect you will be surprised to learn how many others are aware of your manager's behaviour once it is more openly discussed.
There is a degree of risk associated with standing up to your boss, but if it's done tactfully it is your best option."
Billy Anderson, Founder, Made You Think Coaching, Toronto:
"You could ask your boss' boss if it's possible for everyone to get a review because you think the department would benefit. In so doing you'll hopefully get the chance to air your frustrations."
Another tip was to diplomatically stand up to your boss in front of a group of people when he's being unfair. "Sometimes such people are only tough until someone calls them out. There is a risk he'll hold it against after that, but do you have anything to lose at this point?"
He also said the same thing above about a paper trail like keeping inappropriate or contradictory emails from the boss.
Also work on your resume: "Simply starting the search is empowering- you feel like you're driving your own bus instead of being thrown under his."
Good job sites: In the Globe and Mail business section there are these tips.
Addictive Tips: There is usually a tech tip from addictivetips.com. These are all tech tips from computers like Mac, Windows, Android, etc. Check it out:
http://www.addictivetips.com/
Artpetty.com: They have this website that gave a tip. Ask this question in a job interview:
“What are you doing to get better at what you do?” –Artpetty.com
I thought that was a good question that I put it in my inspirational quotes.
Strategy+ business: It also mentioned this website. There are some really good job articles. It lead me to this "6 Secrets to Doing Less."
1. What isn't there can often trump what is.
2. The simplest rules create the most effective experience.
3. Limiting information engages the imagination.
4. Creativity thrives under intelligent constraints.
5. Break is the important part of breakthrough.
6. Doing something isn't always better than doing nothing.
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00156?pg=all
The Womack Report: This site is run by Jason Womack. There are lots of blog posts, videos, seminars, executive coaching to improve your job.
http://womackcompany.com/blog/
May 11 Linked In: Did you know that Linked In is now 10 yrs old? I got an email from them in my inbox. I then read it in the Edmonton Journal about how Linked In was in an office by the other social networking site Friendster. Of course, no one uses that anymore.
I remember last year I was at a wedding, and the MC was talking about how the married couple met. They knew each other when they were kids and lost touch, then reconnected through Friendster back in 2005. Now they're married....awww.
May 15 Newspapers: Last month my dad cancelled our National Post newspaper subscription which we had for years. We're trying to save our money and we subscribe to 2 other newspapers already like the Edmonton Journal and the Globe and Mail.
I remember the days since 2010, the Year of Unemployment where I was unemployed and read all the business sections of the 3 newspapers to be up on the business news. I didn't want to miss a thing about it because how the economy was going, was having some sort of an effect on my job search.
From 2010-2013 I was reading all 3 business sections of the newspapers. Now I'm down to 2. That's fine.
Widows and widowers: Ginny Grimsley sends me these articles and I decided to publish one of them. I asked if I could and she said yes. Here it is:
http://badcb.blogspot.ca/2013/05/article-tips-for-widows-and-widowers.html
I know for most of my friends, it's a long ways away to be thinking about death, but I thought this was a really important article. It mentions finances in it. I always read business articles about retirement, and what happens when you or your spouse dies, inheritances, etc. This article will apply to everybody at one time or another.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Did Obama really say that?
I got this from Amnesty International:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=6oJCLQPAJiJUG&b=6645049&aid=519867&msource=W1305EASHR6
Dear Tracy,
President Obama announced concrete steps to close Guantanamo yesterday, including transferring detainees who have been cleared to go to other countries. Tell Obama to turn his words into action and transfer Shaker Aamer today.
Shaker Aamer has spent over 11 years in Guantanamo. He has not been charged with any crime, and in fact has been cleared for transfer twice.
The British government has repeatedly asked that Shaker be released and returned to the UK, but those calls have gone unanswered.
There is no time like the present -- tell Obama to transfer Shaker Aamer today.
Shaker is not alone. There are 166 detainees in Guantanamo: dozens have been cleared for transfer. More than half are on a hunger strike. Dozens are being shackled and force fed through tubes to keep them alive as the strike continues into its 4th month.
All detainees in Guantanamo Bay have the right to be fairly tried or released.
Tracy, Guantanamo Bay is a place where human rights are denied day after day. And all of this has been done in the name of keeping us "safe."
President Obama can show he is serious about closing Guantanamo by moving forward with transfers today. He has the authority to do so under current law.
Amnesty activists like you have accomplished amazing feats -- and there is no reason to let up now. Your emails, phone calls, rallies, and tweets are working. You are generating critical public pressure, and we need to dial it up -- we are closer than ever to sending Shaker Aamer home and closing Guantanamo for good.
Sincerely,
Zeke Johnson
Director, Security with Human Rights Campaign
Amnesty International USA
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Remind your MP of Canada's promise to Indigenous Peoples in Colombia
I got this from Amnesty International:
http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1770&ea.campaign.id=20652&ea.url.id=143918&ea.campaigner.email=4PH318B4QP8bTUURO9nMPBFFMe9grgD0&ea_broadcast_target_id=0
Canada hasn't yet fulfilled its promise to assess human rights impact of free trade agreement with Colombia
Does your MP know about this?
Dear ,
When a wealthy country like Canada enters into a trade agreement with a country in the midst of a violent decades long armed conflict, you would expect there to be some human rights safeguards in place.
There were.
But the Canadian government has ignored its commitments.
Last week's May 15 deadline for a human rights impact assessment of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement has come and gone with no report, again.
Indigenous Peoples in Colombia continue to be subject to what has been called "extermination", and today as I write to you, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Colombia seeking to expand trade.
Please remind your MP of Canada's obligation before Parliament to submit a human rights impact assessment.
Send an email today.
(Include your postal code when signing the action form and your message will automatically be directed to your MP.)
In 2009, Colombia’s highest court ruled that one third of Indigenous peoples in the South American country were “threatened with physical or cultural extermination” amidst armed conflict and forced displacement, often from land coveted by others for its location or natural resources.
The court gave the government of Colombia six months to develop and implement measures to protect the rights and survival of these Indigenous nations. Four years later, little effective progress has been made.
In the past year, the crisis has only sharpened. More Indigenous leaders were killed amidst efforts to defend the land of their people and their right to determine how it is used. Vulnerable Indigenous communities were bombed by the army, while others suffered violent incursions by guerrilla forces and by paramilitaries. Less than two weeks ago, the home of a Wiwa Indigenous leader was attacked with grenades.
Indigenous organizations reported that armed conflict and grave abuses took place precisely in territory that third parties want to exploit for its natural resources.
Now more than ever, it is vitally important that our government use its special relationship with Colombia to speak up for effective protection of the rights and survival of Indigenous peoples. When Canada entered into the free trade agreement with Colombia in 2011, the legislation passed by Parliament required this annual human rights impact assessment. To date such an assessment has yet to take place. Since then Canada increased its cooperation with Colombia’s military and changed export rules to allow for arms sales to the Colombian army.
Please send an email message informing - or reminding - your representative of our obligations to protect human rights.
Click here to take part in this important action.
Sincerely
Alex Neve
Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada
P.S. You can find this important and timely action on our new webpage "Make it Visible". Please visit to learn more about how vital it is for Canadians to speak up about this issue.
http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1770&ea.campaign.id=20652&ea.url.id=143918&ea.campaigner.email=4PH318B4QP8bTUURO9nMPBFFMe9grgD0&ea_broadcast_target_id=0
Canada hasn't yet fulfilled its promise to assess human rights impact of free trade agreement with Colombia
Does your MP know about this?
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When a wealthy country like Canada enters into a trade agreement with a country in the midst of a violent decades long armed conflict, you would expect there to be some human rights safeguards in place.
There were.
But the Canadian government has ignored its commitments.
Last week's May 15 deadline for a human rights impact assessment of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement has come and gone with no report, again.
Indigenous Peoples in Colombia continue to be subject to what has been called "extermination", and today as I write to you, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Colombia seeking to expand trade.
Please remind your MP of Canada's obligation before Parliament to submit a human rights impact assessment.
Send an email today.
(Include your postal code when signing the action form and your message will automatically be directed to your MP.)
In 2009, Colombia’s highest court ruled that one third of Indigenous peoples in the South American country were “threatened with physical or cultural extermination” amidst armed conflict and forced displacement, often from land coveted by others for its location or natural resources.
The court gave the government of Colombia six months to develop and implement measures to protect the rights and survival of these Indigenous nations. Four years later, little effective progress has been made.
In the past year, the crisis has only sharpened. More Indigenous leaders were killed amidst efforts to defend the land of their people and their right to determine how it is used. Vulnerable Indigenous communities were bombed by the army, while others suffered violent incursions by guerrilla forces and by paramilitaries. Less than two weeks ago, the home of a Wiwa Indigenous leader was attacked with grenades.
Indigenous organizations reported that armed conflict and grave abuses took place precisely in territory that third parties want to exploit for its natural resources.
Now more than ever, it is vitally important that our government use its special relationship with Colombia to speak up for effective protection of the rights and survival of Indigenous peoples. When Canada entered into the free trade agreement with Colombia in 2011, the legislation passed by Parliament required this annual human rights impact assessment. To date such an assessment has yet to take place. Since then Canada increased its cooperation with Colombia’s military and changed export rules to allow for arms sales to the Colombian army.
Please send an email message informing - or reminding - your representative of our obligations to protect human rights.
Click here to take part in this important action.
Sincerely
Alex Neve
Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada
P.S. You can find this important and timely action on our new webpage "Make it Visible". Please visit to learn more about how vital it is for Canadians to speak up about this issue.
Teen Pregnancy Trap/ Jamie Lynn Spears/ Teen Mom 2
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
I Will Teach You to Be Rich/ Junior Achievement
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Inspirational quotes (Part 13)
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”-Pablo
Picasso
“A work of art is above all an adventure of the
mind.”-Eugene Ionesco
“Art expresses who we are, where we are going, where we have
been, and what we might be. It compels
us to engage our minds, think in new ways, and to use our most precious gift,
our imagination.” –University of Alberta
Extension brochure
“A home cannot be truly beautiful unless it functions in
harmony with who we are.”-Clodagh
“So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten,
even by ourselves, so it’s gratifying to have something you have done linger in
people’s memories.”-John Williams, film composer
“The brain is not fragile; the brain is adaptive. The question is whether or not those
adaptations will allow you to cope with the world you are then going to live
in.” –Dr. Clyde Hertzman
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask
questions, never know too much to learn something new.”-Og Mandino
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”-Neale Donald
Walsch
“Turn your wound into wisdom.” –Oprah Winfrey
“The deed is everything, the glory is naught.” –Goethe
“The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply
helping or hurting.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally
look at the results.”-Winston Churchill, British politician and statesman
(1874-1965)
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance
to work hard at work worth doing.” –Theodore Roosevelt,
US president, (1858-1919)
“There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth,
when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.”-Isaiah Berlin,
British philosopher (1909-1997)
“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”- Peter De
Vries, US
novelist (1910-1993)
“The value of sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are
prepared to make for it.” –John Galsworthy, English novelist (1867-1933)
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own
private opinion.” –Henry David Thoreau
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” –John Quincy Adams,
US President (1767-1848)
“Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than
by our lack of knowledge.”-Stendahl
“Before someone will acknowledge your criticisms, you need
to acknowledge their strengths.” –David Rabner
“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always
beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon
you.”-Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (1804-64)
“To revel in the wonders of life, to think, to remember, to
dream; this is to know happiness.” –Giancarlo Di Gratsi
“Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the
tides and gravity…we shall harness the energies of love- then, for the second
time in the history of the world, men will have discovered fire.”-Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin (19th century French philosopher)
“The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience
is the sensation of the mystical. It is
the sower of all true science. He or she
to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in
awe, is as good as dead.” –Albert Einstein
“Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the
things themselves that anger or annoy us.” –Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (AD
121-180)
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man
the reflection of his own face.”- William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist
(1811-63)
“Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we
use to conceal them.”-Rochefoucauld
“Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.”-
Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher (5 BC-65 AD)
“Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their
reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see
them.”-Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist (1865-1946)
“Life is like a B-movie.
You don’t want to have to leave in the middle of it, but you don’t want
to see it again.”-Ted Turner, US
media mogul (1938-)
“Knowledge is a vehicle…designed to take you from one place
to another.”-Marc L. Dorcean
“I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have
become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools
of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”-Bill Gates
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our
aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving
our mark.” -Michelangelo
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the
courage to continue that counts.” –Winston Churchill
“Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has
that ability to comfort.”-Norman Kolpas
“Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying
of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.”-Craig Claiborne
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not
danced at least once.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let us read and let us dance- two amusements that will
never do any harm to the world.”-Voltaire
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are
family happinesses.” –Joyce Brothers
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”-Mahatma
Gandhi
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the
way.”-Frank Smith
“Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.”-Roger
Bacon
“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where it’s people come from and
where they are going.”-Rita Mae Brown
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a
somewhat different world.”-Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Change your language and you change your thoughts.”- Karl
Albrecht
“Law is order, and good law is good order.”-Aristotle
“Many of life’s circumstances are created by three basic
choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with,
and the laws you choose to obey.”-Charles Milhuff
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat
than in his own soul.”-Marcus Aurelius
“Your body is a beautiful manifestation powered by
spirit.”-Mike Dolan
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you
get.”-Michael Phelps
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to
great things.”-Denis Diderot
“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the
overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”-Francois de La
Rochefoucauld
“I do not understand how anyone can live without one small
place of enchantment to turn to.”-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”-Eudora
Welty
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about find something interesting in an
ordinary place…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and
everything to do with the way you see them.” –Elliot Erwitt
“You are responsible for creating the life, the
relationships, and the business you want.
Everything else is just drama.”-Marlene Chism
“The more success you have, the more people decide they want
to hate you. You spend your time looking
for the next project and as each project ends, you think there’s not going to
be any more. When this opportunity came
up, which I thought was terrible, my wife convinced me to do it. The thing I didn’t want to do most garnered
me the most success.” –Howie Mandel on his TV show Deal or No Deal
“I recognize that Hollywood
is not about seniority. Often it’s not
even a meritocracy. It’s about what you
did yesterday. You have a couple of
misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and
navigated it as such.” –Ben Affleck
“…The value of work, and of always learning something new,
and what it takes to achieve excellence.
I really believe in those things that you have to dedicate yourself and
spend time, that excellence is elusive.
It’s a little maddening, to try to have that level of discipline in your
life, and I don’t succeed all the time.
But I do try.” –Ben Affleck on the film Jiro Dreams of Sushi
“You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.” –Ben Affleck
“I was walking to Madison
Square Garden
when the second plane hit-you can prepare for everything, but you can’t expect
everything. Forty-eight hours later, we
were back on the ice, because no matter where you are in the world, what
you’re experiencing is a hockey rink- that’s where you’re at home.” -Dr.
Kimberley Amirault-Ryan (She is the lead
of sport psychology for the Canadian Olympic Committee. This is about working for the New York
Rangers on Sept.11, 2001.
“But even everyday pressures- the self-doubt, setbacks and
confusion- can be put in balance by a workout routine. Forget the release of endorphin; even the
hour of quiet reflecting coupled with a sense of accomplishment can create a
sense of calm.”-Ben Kaplan (journalist for the National Post)
“When you’re not happy with how things are going and you’re
trying to get back on track, that’s when it’s wise to fall back on healthy
routine.”-Peter Jensen, sports psychologist.
He has worked with Canada’s
gold medal-winning women’s hockey team.
“Finding more meaning in life and things that are more
important than your problems pull you towards life rather than
death and help to promote wellness.”-Dr. Ian Manion, the executive director of
the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
2010 Vancouver
Olympics Joannie Rochette:
“You set goals for yourself every week and you achieve them,
which is great for your self-esteem.”
“In skating there’s a whole team with you, but at the same
time you’re by yourself. You have to be
willing to spend a lot of hours with yourself, it can get pretty lonely at
times, but you become to be your own best friend and you get know yourself a way
you wouldn’t if you didn’t go through that.”
What have you learned from the sport? What are some of the life skills competitive
skating has taught you?
“To set goals for yourself, and not to procrastinate. You learn to push yourself to do things when
you don’t want to-hell, some days you can’t even climb up the stairs because
your legs hurt so badly from the previous day.
But you kick yourself in the butt and you keep going! I think I learned that kind of discipline,
that kind of will to achieve your goal, even if it means suffering one day. It helps to keep that big goal and the big
picture of it.”
“Just set goals for yourself, it keeps you from trouble and
that intimidation at school.”
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