We all feel overwhelmed at one time or another. We may even get angry at what appear to be insurmountable tasks ahead of us. Sometimes we just keep putting them off altogether. Their shear size overwhelms us. Be overwhelmed no more. Here is a depressurizing strategy that will help you get that job done and make you will feel increasingly satisfied along the way. A colleague and business coach, James Maduk, told a story about a man who set out to eat an entire car. Really! Why anyone would want t…

The tragedy is compounded by our virtually inextricable connection to plastics now that "Pandora" is out of the box. I remember in elementary school how we were told plastics would serve the world so well and make life better than ever. And, atomic energy was to give us unlimited energy -- the cost was not counted! We still have little understanding of the impact of plastics of all kinds on our own health. Petrochemicals are not the blessing we once thought -- quite the contrary. Yet, we still p…

Been there; done that! But, I didn't need a defibrilator when I had my heart attack. But what if you have a heart attack and need an AED, Automatic External Defibrillator? I’m not so sure that you would survive if you live in Ontario. At least I'm not sure since reading the conclusions reported in the Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) study and the Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) trial. “These studies, reported on the Health Quality Ontario site, examined the effect of a commu…

I believe in life-long learning. Education should be a personal matter, however. To be sure, there are real basic skills and facts each of us must know to function at all culturally, socially, economically, and personally. However, those “basic” skills and facts that prove essential are, in fact, far fewer than are forced upon us in our schools. The real issues that confront us on a personal level the system supplants with a host of curriculum offerings we will never need and never use. Much of …