Reading Time: 3 minutes Mindset: Changing the way you think to fulfil your potentialBy Dr. Carol S. Dweck Failure can be difficult to handle, especially if you’ve always been told that you are smart. Failure can also be problematic if you feel that everything you do will always be deeply scrutinized and evaluated. It’s all on you. Worse, you […] Read more
Mindset: Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential
Guide Books Review: Creating a 'culture of development' is essential
Tunes and wooden spoons
Dishing out recipes, music and love, a Cape Bretoner shows how a social media presence can be good both for the heart and the business
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s the kind of good news story we could all use a little more of right now. Cape Breton Island’s Mary Janet MacDonald has brought hope and cheer to thousands during the COVID-19 pandemic through her love of cooking and people. Almost every single Sunday afternoon since the first pandemic restrictions were put in place […] Read more
Guide Health: Snoring and sleep apnea
Medical conditions often contribute to sleep apnea
Reading Time: 3 minutes Snoring can be more than a nuisance. It can have negative consequences too, and it is important to know it may be a sign of sleep apnea. Sleep relaxes the soft tissues in the roof of the mouth (i.e. the soft palate) and in both your throat and your tongue. Snoring is the sound that […] Read more
Grow food anywhere
New Canadian startup Growcer already has 50 “vertical farms” in place in Canada. Get ready for a whole lot more
Reading Time: 5 minutes In Canada’s northern regions, where the growing season is so short it can seem non-existent in any agricultural sort of way, fresh food from California and Mexico is not only expensive due to the transportation costs; all too often, it is no longer fresh. After experiencing first-hand how the high cost of fresh, healthy food […] Read more
Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)
Guide Books Review: How having even one difficult person can ruin an entire team
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Amy GalloHarvard Business Review Press Farming is seldom a solo venture. Not only do the older and the younger generations overlap but as farms get bigger and more complex, more employees get hired too, so learning to work with others is essential. Negative relationships are bad for business. We know this, but there’s still […] Read more
Guide Health: Taking care of your teeth is always a good idea
Some people have an increased risk for poor dental health. Are you one of them?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The saying is that everyone takes their teeth for granted unless they have a cavity. This underscores a very real problem. It is too easy to think that dental care is only useful for preventing tooth pain. Instead, it boosts our overall health too. Between one- and two-thirds of Canadians have had a cavity or […] Read more
Bringing back civility
In a world that is losing its manners, the next step is yours
Reading Time: 5 minutes Incidents of road rage are up. So are aggressive speeding and dangerous driving. Meanwhile, politicians are receiving death threats, even in rural municipalities, and we see so much lashing out at one another on social media. Is incivility rampant in our society today? It can certainly feel that way. What happened to the good manners […] Read more
Guide Health: Drugs for your brain’s health
Reading Time: 2 minutes Everyone worries about memory loss, but keep in mind that losing keys is not memory loss. Everyone misplaces their keys sometimes! The Alzheimer’s Society’s 2020 numbers have 569,600 Canadians living with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and almost two-thirds are women, but women live longer than men and Alzheimer’s disease is a disease of older […] Read more
Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals
Guide Books Review: Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small Farm
Reading Time: 3 minutes Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals: Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small FarmBy Temple GrandinStorey Publishing, 192 pages What if there was a way to get inside your animals’ brains to figure out what they’re thinking and why they act in the (frustrating!) ways that they do? You can do exactly […] Read more
Get more resilient
By transforming adversity into resiliency, these strategies build a better you
Reading Time: 5 minutes During the pandemic, trauma counsellor Catherine Clark became intrigued by the idea of creating a Mental Health Resiliency Roadmap to help address the deep emotional pain, anxiety and burnout that families, businesses and communities were experiencing. Based on key findings in neural, cognitive and behavioural science, Clark wanted the resiliency roadmap to help individuals meet […] Read more
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