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Don't let anybody else decide what you're worth.

Let's all strive to be "Bob Saget Nice"...

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A few years ago, I adopted an alternative to making New Year's Resolutions that a friend and former colleague shared with me...

I thought I'd write a simple poem to finish off the year...

Here are the 20 most popular articles I wrote in 2021 and the five articles I personally liked best...

I can't say I knew Glenn Broadley very well. Yet I still regret not having a chance to reconnect with him before he passed...

This edition of text-talk features Bryan Reid and Ron Zeeman, who helped create all those WestJet holiday ads you've seen over the years...

Things aren't always going to go the way you want them to, and when they don't, you're probably not going to be very happy about it....

I'm a recovering perfectionist who years ago realized that if your goal is perfection, you'll avoid trying new things that might fail...

In 2017 I decided to do a simple "Gratitude Challenge"....

MasterClass might have just added one more to the list of perfectly crafted brand slogans..

Once in a while, you discover a commercial that gets better every time you see it. Amazon's latest holiday ad might be one of them...

The Wall Street Journal recently did a cover story on Ryan Reynolds, and it's worth a read...