by agnes | Aug 18, 2013 | Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
I had a discussion some time ago with my DMC team-mates about the failure rate of women in business. One of my favourite phrases is “You don’t know what you don’t know”. It comes into play here, and everywhere statistics are spouted. Six years...
by agnes | Aug 16, 2013 | Blog, Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
I have worked in ElderCare for over 20 years. It has always been about the people and I have appreciated it for that reason. By ElderCare I mean the frail, the bed-bound, the demented, the dying. A common theme I hear from families when they start enquiring about...
by agnes | Aug 15, 2013 | Finding Focus, Getting Down To Business, On A Personal Note...
Last year I had reason to talk with my financial advisor outside our usual check-in. I wanted to cash in part of an RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan) – it was doing nothing and I wanted to take a risk on something for my kids. She was not sure I was doing the...
by agnes | Aug 8, 2013 | Finding Focus, On A Personal Note...
It was about 2006 that my RRSP bottom lines started going south. For several years my retirement dreams really took a beating, but now I am back on track to retire as I had planned! What’s your story? Are you ready to reclaim your retirement dreams? ...
by agnes | Apr 15, 2013 | Getting Down To Business, It's The Life In Your Years, On A Personal Note...
I up-graded to my very first Smart Phone yesterday. Never really needed one before. I have always maintained that my phones were there for my convenience, and the world of apps and games were the “thing” of the younger set. But when life and livelihood...
by agnes | Mar 27, 2013 | In The News, On A Personal Note...
July 1st, 2010: B.C. “harmonized” the Provincial Sales Tax with the federal Goods & Services Tax; result is the HST. April 1st, 2013: B.C. “deharmonizes” the taxes and returns to the PST and the GST. If you look the word...