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Meat and Fashion

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months” - Oscar Wilde
It was a Saturday night, and I was sitting at the dinner table eating a meal with my family. This is a number of years ago now - I was perhaps 12 at the time [...]

How to Sharpen Your Networking Skills

Last week I was on a 4 day training course in Downtown Vancouver, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to sharpen my networking skills. I am normally fairly quiet and introverted, so I often need to make an effort when it comes to networking and the like. That said, I have come a long [...]

Ecstasy Without Addiction

Note: this is a guest post by David Bohl from Slow Down Fast.
Everyone enjoys partaking in activities that make them feel good. One of the problems we face, though, is that we have become a society of excesses. Especially for those fighting to maintain some semblance of work life balance, it can be [...]

Mind Over Mattress: How to Wake Earlier When All You Want to Do is Sleep

I normally wake at 5am, and have been doing so for some time. In fact, if I didn’t wake early you probably wouldn’t be reading this right now as I simply wouldn’t have the time to write for this blog. This past week, however, I have struggled to wake early and have been hitting [...]

Best of February

Well March is here, but as always I like to take time to reflect on the month that has just passed. February was a busy, but very exciting, month for me. It was my first month as editor for PickTheBrain, and I also had this guest post published on one of my favorite blogs, ProBlogger.
Despite [...]