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The Secret to Living the Life You Want

The Secret to Living the Life You Want

Several years ago, I was in a phenomenal movie called The Secret. From the Law of Attraction to knowing who you really are, The Secret takes you on a journey that demonstrates that if you’re letting outside circumstances stop you from moving toward the life you want, you are making a big mistake. I say that because I KNOW you can create the life you want. And you can do it regardless of your…

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A Night To Remember

A Night To Remember

In the early 1990s, one fateful night while hanging out on the Santa Monica Pier with my friend Nirvana, a doorway to my Self opened and remains opened and thriving to this day. Nirvana and I were walking past a shop, and I was drawn to a provocative poster in the window of the actress Nastassja Kinski lying nude and intertwined with a Burmese python. I gazed at it for maybe five minutes, locked…

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Finding the UPSIDE of COVID-19

Finding the UPSIDE of COVID-19

Running a small business in 2020 is HARD. Running a small retail-business in 2020 is HARDER. And running a small service-based business in 2020 can feel IMPOSSIBLE. My mother and I own and operate King’s Crown, a men’s grooming business in Toronto. We offer men an internationally-sourced selection of grooming and lifestyle products in our studio and on our website Our website launched in 2014,…

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Chasing A Dream

Have you ever dreamed something into existence? If you don’t believe that this is true, you may change your mind after reading this story. It was July 2011 when my mother, Mary Margaret Herstad, known as “Margie”, passed away at the early age of 73. At the conclusion of her memorial service I was approached by three individuals who expressed such gratitude regarding how our mother helped them on…

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The Hidden Power of Mindset

The Hidden Power of Mindset

It started with difficulty sleeping because of a simple backache that wouldn’t go away. A little more than four years later, she was dead and my entire world had been turned upside down and inside out. “She” was my wife Pam, and the backache was the first symptom of what was eventually diagnosed as 3rd stage acute multiple myeloma, a blood cancer of the bone marrow. Our journey from that…

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The Yellow T-shirt and the Power of Visualization

The Yellow T-shirt and the Power of Visualization

One day in 2004 on a detox in Scotland I began to understand the power that we possess in our marvelous minds. At the time I was 33 and my body was so stiff with a Rheumatic condition that for the previous 18 months I could barely walk or get up out of a chair, I was in so much pain that at times I had been suicidal. Brian Miller, an early mentor of mine was with me that day in Scotland and he…

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Living In Gratitude

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which read, “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat – spare change from folks as they hurried past. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. Then he put the sign back in the…

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How I See Me

How I See Me

A year and a half ago I had very different beliefs – about the world and myself. I was someone who always had a drive for more. I wanted to do well in my Nursing career, I always took on more overtime, volunteered for the charge nurse role and eventually became a Manager. It seemed like the perfect way to “climb the ladder” while doing what I loved most, helping people. What I did not expect with…

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Taking Out the Trash

Taking Out the Trash

What would you do if I showed up at your door, walked straight into your living room, and dumped a big bag of garbage on your floor? Would you gasp at the atrocity? Would you order me to clean it up? What if I did the same thing every day following? Given that we are friends, and you trust me, would you simply learn to live with it? Sounds like an absurd thing to entertain but I listened to an…

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Dealing With Hurtful Words

Dealing With Hurtful Words

When one of my daughters was confronted with the fact that she had really hurt another child with a mean comment, she cried and immediately wanted to apologize. That was a good thing, but I wanted her to know an apology can’t always make things better. So I told her the story of Will, an angry nine-year-old whose father abandoned his mom two years earlier. Will would often lash out at others with…

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Audit - Financial Terms

Audit – Financial Terms

An audit is a professional, independent examination of a company’s financial statements and accounting documents according to generally accepted accounting principles. An IRS audit, in contrast, is an examination of a taxpayer’s return, usually to question the accuracy or acceptability of the information the return reports.

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Automatic enrollment - Financial Terms

Automatic enrollment – Financial Terms

Your employer has the right to sign you up for your company’s 401(k) plan, in what’s known as an automatic, involuntary, or negative enrollment. If you don’t want to participate, you must refuse, in writing, to be part of the plan.

In an automatic enrollment, the company determines the percentage of earnings you contribute and how your contribution is allocated. You have the right to change…

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Quote of the day!

Quote of the day!

Never stop being teachable. If you think you know everything, you will never learn anything. Dani Johnson – Author

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Quote of the day!

Quote of the day!

Never stop being teachable. If you think you know everything, you will never learn anything. Dani Johnson – Author

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What Your Checkbook and Calendar Say About Your Values

What Your Checkbook and Calendar Say About Your Values

If I wanted to check your credit worthiness, I’d look at your balance sheet — what you have and what you owe — and I’d want to know about your history of paying your debts. If I wanted to know your values, I’d look at your calendar and checkbook.

How come? Well, the term “values” refers to core beliefs and convictions that drive decisions. Our values are revealed not by what we say but by what…

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Quote of the day!

Quote of the day!

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening, when you rather would have talked. Mark Twain

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Quote of the day!

Quote of the day!

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley – Author and Speaker

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