Beyond the Rhetoric

Many people seem to assume that if you were to look at success and failure, you’d see them as being at opposite ends of the spectrum. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact of the matter is that success and failure are effectively two sides of the same coin and they are at [...]

You hear it all the time. People are living beyond their means and then they find themselves in all kinds of financial ruin. That’s not where you want to be. You also don’t want to simply live within your means; it is much better if you can learn to live below your means. This is [...]

It’s important that you take responsibility for your actions, but oftentimes, we forget that the responsibility applies to the present, as well as to the past and the future. As you may have heard, Vancouver is one of the least affordable places to live in the world when you consider the median income level and [...]

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” Have you ever encountered a co-worker who won’t stop complaining about his or her job? Or how about the student that is constantly complaining about not having enough of a social life, because he or she is [...]

“Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must [...]