It used to be that you could work for a company for 45 years, and retire with a pension to meet your needs, and a gold watch to match. Nowadays, there is no such thing as job security, and and any pension or government funded retirement plans are likely not enough to keep you living [...]

  (also known as ‘watch Ben read a book today’) This morning my good friend Phil Gerbyshak chucked a book at me. Ouch ! Turns out, it was exactly what I needed (funny how life works eh?) The book he threw at me is Joe Calloway’s new book ‘Work Like You’re Showing Off: The Joy, [...]

Via Scoble (photo of Dave McClure from Jeremiah Owyang’s Flickr stream) PS -  What funny t shirts have you seen around? Snap a picture of one and I will feature it here !

Hot off the presses – I’ve been nominated as one of five Favourite Realtors in town, in the Kitchener Waterloo Record’s Reader’s Select awards. Voting starts in early August, and I’ll post all the details here when I have them. Thanks so much for your support !

Giesbrecht, Griffin, Funk and Irvine… details to follow… (it’s been a long day)

Malcolm Gladwell writes that the tipping point is “that moment in an epidemic when a virus reaches critical mass. It’s the boiling point. It’s the moment on the graph when the line starts to shoot straight upwards.” Facebook has passed the tipping point, and is now being used by a large majority of my clients, [...]

Can you help me?  It will just take a minute, and it would really mean a lot to me ! The Record, Kitchener-Waterloo’s local newspaper, has a survey at their website looking for your favourite Real Estate Company and favourite Realtor. I’d really appreciate it if you could vote (for me)! The deadline is Saturday, [...]

That Guy with the Nametag, Scott Ginsberg has some great advice, all in threes: 8. Boutiques, not mega-marts. 16. Discipline, not luck. 34. Finest, not first. 75. Unique, not different. As always, Scott includes a call to action: LET ME ASK YA THIS… What are your best three words of advice? LET ME SUGGEST THIS… [...]

“Your network is your networth.”  This quote, which appeared on the back of Keith Ferrazzi’s Never Eat Alone, was my introduction to Tim Sanders, lovecat extraordinaire.  “Treat it with respect.  Nurture it.  It is the most valuable thing you own outright.” Love is the Killer App is a book about how to build a huge, [...]

1.  Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 2.  When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. 3.  Follow the three R’s: Respect for self Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions. 4.  Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. 5.  Learn [...]