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The game-face of a change surfer
Change and transition have been a big part of my life and I’ve had to adapt and flex quickly to different and new situations. When I was a kid, I changed elementary schools a few times, switched churches, participated in a bunch of extracurricular activities, and traveled a lot with my family. Fast forward to […]
On being unconditional, rather than perfect
With a recent family wedding, I started thinking about love, commitment, relationships and the optimal conditions for all of the above to not only survive, but flourish. What does a perfect relationship actually look like? Does it exist? I’m going to spare you the details of my mind-wanderings and simply say that this was a […]
Sprinting to success – short and near goals go the distance
Quill and Curio welcomes Neel Aggarwal as our first-ever guest blogger. Neel is the owner of Aggarwal Financial Solutions Inc. located in Kitchener, Ontario. Neel is in the business of building relationships to help people define short and long-term goals, establish a plan and achieve lifetime financial security. Neel was born and raised here in […]
Choice, context and direction
Lately, I’ve been looking back and thinking about the various transition points in my life and how I got here, along the lines of choice and context. It’s mind-bending to think about the many choices – some tiny and seemingly innocuous, some big and weighty, some that I was barely aware I was making – […]
Getting rid of my muffin top
In my last blog post after WIBN, I was pretty excited about my new calendar-focused approach to making time for myself as well as staying focused on my family and clients in a given day. A week later, I started to realize that it’s a great theory to log a calendar entry that says, “exercise” […]
Turn off your marketing, or they’ll do it for you
Across all the business articles and blogs I read last week, I started noticing a crescendo of comments about shifts in online behaviour. A lot of it had to do with people being too busy to read and retain all the information coming at us. Some of it also had to do with businesses manically […]
