Category Archives: Best of Blogs

Best of Blogs – drawing and writing

In my workshops, I often use a flip chart to draw concepts for people.  Tom Drake suggested that I buy a Wacom Tablet and draw some of these concepts for my readers as illustrations in my posts.  I’ve been having a lot of fun with this so I’ll keep these drawings coming but I’d love…

Best of Blogs – short and sweet

We are in the heart of RRSP season so time is of the essence and I need to make this week’s round up short and sweet.  Pension reform continues to be a big topic so I continued to write about it in my posts on Retire Happy Blog and other places. This Week I Wrote:…

Best of Blogs – Pension Reform

This week, the hot topic was pension reform because of some comments by Stephen Harper in Davos.  I was contacted by various media all week to comment but the most interesting set of interviews happened on Wed morning for CBC Radio.  I had to get up at 4:30am to talk to 10 radio shows across…

Best of Blogs – Gong Hai Fat Choi

Happy Chinese New year!  It’s the year of the dragon and the dragon is a symbol of power and change.  Some experts suggest that the year of the dragon usually signifies change from bad to good so that may be a good sign for better markets in 2012. This week also marks the first birthday…

Best of Blogs – the weather and investing

It’s been cold here in Edmonton but the cold gives everyone something to talk about.  A long time ago I wrote an article on how the weather was like investing.  It’s kind of entertaining (at least for me anyway) so I thought I would share it with you:  What does the weather have to do…

Best of Blogs – energized and ready

After a solid two week Christmas break, I got right back to a busy week of work with 3 days of workshops and a lot of writing.  Don’t you love those productive weeks after taking a break?  Being productive energizes me and as a result I have a busy week of articles to share with…