Last night was INSANE. If you're not a Twitter user in Toronto, you might not know that last night was Twestival Toronto 2011. To sum it up, that's equal parts:

• Prize giveaways;
• Karaoke contest;
• Intense dance party;
• Networking session; and
• Drunken hook-up-a-thon

Life was simpler before we gained this obsession with knowing EVERYTHING.

Somewhere along the line, we overdid it. It's human nature to satisfy our curiosity. We learn more through our own personal experiences than we do from reading, watching or being told something by someone else. These are all parts of maturing, forearming ourselves with ( Read more... )

"You'll look back at this one day and laugh."

Unless you're a human encyclopedia - and if so, I pity you, because I do rather enjoy the convenience of being able to forget useless crap - you're likely to forget things.

Names, phone numbers, events - even life lessons.

One of the reasons why we as a species continue to make the same stupid ( Read more... )

I've often asked and have BEEN asked this question, and more often than not WITHOUT fail, no one really has a great answer. You usually get a

"Well I like to do..." or

"I'm pretty good at..." or even

"People TELL me I'm good at..."

Perhaps it's our apologetic Canadian culture, but no. This is not passion. It doesn't even seem close to passion for me.

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Nothing on this earth lasts forever.

This is one of those rules of life I usually take for granted (or even deny), but at times it will make itself more apparent to you than others.

For example, my office has seen a ton of change lately. Almost half of the staff has moved on from our office for various reasons, and this yields different effects:

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It took me 22 hours to come up with something inspirational that I wanted to share with you today, but I eventually came across it when Sarah asked me to watch an episode of "Undercover Boss" with her. In it was Scott Sibella, the President/COO of the MGM Grand casino in Las Vegas, and man! It was INSPIRING.

These were the players involved:

• Donn, ( Read more... )

Today I could discuss a variety of topics pertinent to what my day's been like so far.

• The Art of Not Getting Upset When Plans Go Awry
• Event-Planning on the Fly
• When to and NOT to Listen to Your Instinct: A Wedding Suit Story
• Your Parents: Yeah, They Aren't Always Right

…but really, I'd love to spend more time working on each of those, rather than try ( Read more... )

In this day and age where all of your words and actions and words have the potential to be record (whether you know it or not), coming correct has never been more important. In a conversation I had with a friend a week ago, we were discussing how no one seems to know ANYTHING about coming correct anymore. He and I share the fact that we grew up ( Read more... )

I'm tired, and until I shaved this morning, I looked like I'd been hiding out in the wilderness for an extended  period of time. Relaxation hasn't really been in the cards lately, but I'd be lying if I said I hadn't seen it coming.

We all tell each other our tales of woe - how it's all too much and grating on our nerves to deal with our daily ( Read more... )

Hey all; I blogged about this topic last year in the 2010 20K, but I'm still ticked about it and I still see ads for it everywhere I look, so I'm here to address it once more with a bit more gusto. So here goes:

Rich Dad, Poor You - Hustlin' is Easy!

I'm still seeing ads for the Rich Dad, Poor Dad seminars on the subway. On the side of my ( Read more... )