Olympic Triathlete Finishes Last Place One of our Canadian Olympic athletes really impressed me during these London Olympics. Paula Findlay, one of our Canadian triathletes, was a top contender after winning World Cups and a medal hopeful for Canada. ...
Fitness Strategy For Physically Demanding Jobs
Fitness Strategy Many who work in physically demanding jobs like construction, landscaping and warehousing have unique cases where they get a lot of exercise (sometimes too much) for certain muscle groups. As a result, you can see that many of these f ...
Can You Afford Your Children’s College University Education Tuition?
College University Education Tuition When I went to a few campuses as a college speaker, I asked some of the students how much they had to pay for their college university education. Typical tuitions these days were reported to be between $5,000 to $8 ...
Inspirational Thoughts Posted During July
Inspirational Thoughts Posted It's time again to put up a summary of inspirational thoughts posted to my Motivation Facebook page. Here they are. "Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." ~ Vince Lombardi "One day you will wake up and there ...
High Income Does Not Always Mean Financial Freedom
Real Definition Of Financial Freedom A couple of posts ago, I wrote about how money keeps us on a leash. That is, the amount of money we have available can dictate how we are able to live our lives from day to day. The more money we have, the more thi ...
Motivation Techniques For Fitness Include Group Activities
Motivation Techniques Using Group Activities One of the hardest challenges I see among many people striving for some level of fitness is getting themselves motivated enough to actually do something. Some of these individuals find it difficult particul ...
My Golden Rule With Credit Cards Explained On Video – WebTV #73
Golden Rule With Credit Cards Some time ago, I wrote about my golden rule on how I use my credit cards (with one nice result of never paying any interest charges). Well, I'm currently working on a brand new keynote presentation on financial freedom an ...
Summer Fitness Program Working Well
Summer Fitness Program Well, I'm several weeks into my summer fitness program which I described in a previous post and it is working out really well. The change over to this summer schedule from my spring program coincided with the opening of the outd ...
Canadian Motivational Speaker Impressed By 86 Year Old Gymnast
Canadian Motivational Speaker Impressed One of the things I like about social media like Facebook is the sharing of neat content by everyone. Recently, I spotted some images of an 86 year old gymnast named Johanna Quaas. Gymnastics is usually known as ...
Business Speaker Describes How Money Keeps Us On A Leash
Business Speaker Opinion On Money As a Canadian business speaker, some of my keynotes in certain business related topics start out with a huge image of money. I like to ask how many people in my audiences like that particular image - I use separate sl ...