After the rush of Christmas and all things festive to ring out 2017, I took the first two weeks of 2018 as a time to reflect, observe and feel out the pace of this very…
As 2016 drew to a close, I made a promise to myself that I was going to make 2017 memorable. I was going to make myself so proud! At that point, in December last year,…
4 things you should NOT do with your December Salary/Bonus
Eye Opener, Life, Money, Personal Finances
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, Christmas! Festive, colourful, filled with religious symbolism and a spendthrift’s playground. The Christmas season always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside, because I grew up spending…
This is not a slash and burn post. I am not telling you to identify and remove these people from your life. Acknowledging that the following people are in your life doesn’t mean that your…
Ever felt like you wanted to take a food break? Not a break from eating food, but a break from eating the same, regular stuff that you normally consume. The white rice, fried chicken and…
Life is short, and there are so many things that we are forced to do daily. Be it for work or some other obligation. So why not take some time to do something that YOU…
Many of us Jamaicans have been so convinced that we live in a scammer’s paradise that we put our guards down when we travel. Let’s admit it, some Jamaicans are ingenious and get up to…
I’ve often pondered some of the reasons I’ve decided not to have children, or in the Jamaica parlance pertaining to men and children “get any.” One of my reasons was pretty blunt – children are…
Speaking Life: My Toastmasters Journey… so far
Education, Getting it Done!, Motivation, Personal branding, professional growth, Toastmasters
People say the darndest things. So there I was, in Vancouver, Canada stepping into a taxi, as I headed to a session of the 2017 Toastmasters International Convention. When I sat down and got settled,…
After watching that video of the partly naked mother, viciously beating her daughter with a machete on Sunday, (reported on here) I was part amused and mostly dismayed. I was amused because the dang dog reminded…