By Monique MacKinnon & Kita Szpak, Co-authors of Tipping Point to Happiness (From Monique’s Financial and lifestyle Freedom for Executives enewsletter, March 14, 2014) So you want to be the CEO of your own company? It depends on many factors, including and not limited to: stage of life you’re in, and your age, preferred business model, reason for running a business, and personality type. If you want to obtain ‘pro’ status...

Kita visits Marty Dickinson at http://www.herenextyear.com  with her blog “Write More Thank You Notes than Parking Tickets” http://herenextyear.com/write-more-thank-you-notes-than-parking-tickets.php

You’re on the phone with your girlfriend and she’s going on and on about last weekend. “She won’t even let me talk,” you say to yourself.  “Talk about a one-sided conversation…I might as well hang up.” Well don’t! Could be she’s on a rant but it could also mean that she needs to have someone listen to her “story”, and who better than a close friend who won’t judge or criticize her? We all have stories. Problems, unhappy situations,...

I was straightening up the linen closet and found a baby blanket that my mom had given to me years ago. It’s a blanket that my twin brother and I had in London, UK where we were born. I teared up as I unfolded it, and let a few more tears fall as I thought of dad, who probably held Robert (everyone else calls him Bob) in it.  Funny, how emotions get stirred up by such simple, little things. Call me sentimental, yes I cry at movies too.  But...

Sometimes life loads you up with a flurry of events so packed together and so important to you that you can barely stop for a breath lest you miss the “this is life” intensity of it all. This weekend I’m attending my daughter-in-law’s baby shower in the afternoon. It’s her first – a boy, and the family is over the moon about it. My son is incredibly happy, and I am bursting with pride and joy for them both. Later that same afternoon, I’m going...

What are you doing with your life today? Such a loaded question… and courtesy of my reading Roy Williams’ “Monday Morning Memo”, where he aims that question at the reader. Well, I’m writing this and that’s something important I am doing today.  So I’ve covered one hour or so of 24.  Big deal, Kita.  However, what I don’t want this to be for you and me is some veiled threat about how we are such ungrateful creatures and are completely wasting...