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 @trevorellis     Trevor Ellis, Grade 6 French Immersion Teacher, Jackman Avenue Jr PS, Toronto, ON.     Stand Up       Yes, you read that correctl...

  Originally posted in June 2016, with the school year just around the corner we wanted to reshare these great tips for getting the most out of yo...

Originally posted in September 2017, we wanted to bring back this blog focused on being environmentally friendly with your note-taking.    ---   O...

As North Americans we pride ourselves on things like production, efficiency and our work ethic in general. It's part of life blood if you will.   ...

So for this blog, I'd like to talk about habits.   Right now I’m reading Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit.   The book's premise is based upon t...

Setting your boundaries by saying "no" actually leads to higher productivity.   In fact, when you come down to it, being productive is pretty simp...

What? An underwriter?   So what is that? Sounds like a scary profession to me -- maybe a copy writer turned zombie? Or Edgar Allan Poe meets "Six ...

Apparently some fella (Reinhold Niebuhr 1892-1971) who had considerable wisdom penned the following:   "... grant me the serenity to accept the th...

Life is all about choices.   According to a Psychology Today article that cites a Cornell University study, we make 226.7 decisions a day -- and t...

All of us have to deal with difficult or rude people from time to time.   It happens all the time: at work, at home, at the grocery store, at paren...

Do you ever find yourself in a situation where there's a decision to be made but you are reluctant to go ahead because you're scared of the unknow...

Are deadlines, appointments, to-do lists, and endless papers piling and begging for your time and attention.   Our work lives are filled with phys...