Our increasingly multicultural society combines both an influx of people coming to our land and wide-ranging opportunity to interact on foreign soil due to leisure or business travel. Thus, the opportunities for communication challenges based on cultural differences is magnified.
A major theme of the September issue of Toastmaster magazine focuses on the concept of ‘cultural intelligence’. (more…)
The September issue of The Insurance and Investment Journal includes a somewhat stark looking two-page checklist of duties and responsibilities of financial advisors, from the fiduciary standpoint which relates to errors and omissions (E & O) business insurance coverage.
It serves as an update reminder of what are the areas of service expectation, primarily for the advisor, but also implicitly for the consumer. (more…)
Today is the 14th anniversary of 9/11.
Let’s consider some thoughtful words on the subject of Relationships:
One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly… (more…)
In today’s Ottawa Citizen, a page two article describes the travails of an RESP planholder attempting to redeem monies for her son’s post-secondary schooling. The coverage of such cost, of course, is the raison d’etre for the program. The financial institution which set up the RESP made an already time-vulnerable process for obtaining monies for the student one of exasperation for her and her son.
It shouldn’t have been this way if the representatives of the institution followed the likely protocol. (more…)
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On Choices & Change:
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. (more…)
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With the Canadian election campaign creeping on toward October 17th…
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We know that fear and greed are major motivators of human behaviours. Certainly these attributes have been applied over and over to how investors respond in the marketplace.
Aside from these more dramatic conscious states, what helps to being motivated in general? (more…)
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The City of Ottawa has followed again this summer a policy of closing beaches well before the end of August, when it not only normally remains quite warm, but also as this year when it can be steamy hot; what other policy gems are there?
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On Resolving:
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
On Skills & Fundamentals:
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. (more…)
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the watch of time
Memorable Quotes # 32
On Influence & Associating:
Don’t join an easy crowd. You won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
There are two parts to influence. First, influence is powerful. And second, it is subtle.
Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions. (more…)
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