by Susan Elford | Apr 1, 2020 | Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Personal Leadership
6 Principles to Help Us Find Solid Ground in Uncertainty It was 1984. I was in Grade 10. And the world was coming to an end. My social studies teacher was impassioned about the state of the world and was intent on her wide-eyed, previously innocent students...
by Susan Elford | Oct 10, 2019 | Business, Career, Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Success
Cultivating Community Builds Your Business, Builds your Career and Enhances Your Life A smiling face in the crowd, I stood back and watched my neighbours gather in celebration. Together, over a period of almost 10 years, my neighbours had worked together to envision,...
by Susan Elford | Sep 11, 2019 | Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Personal Leadership
The Changing Landscapes of Our Lives It was a Facebook post that struck me. As the “Back to School” frenzy started and the requisite Back To School photos started being posted, one post showed a mother crying her eyes out as she dropped her baby off at Kindergarten...
by Susan Elford | Aug 7, 2019 | Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Work / Life Balance
The Truth Behind My Struggle to Switch Off Do you find it hard to switch off? Even during holidays? Time slips like sand through my fingers. The tiny grains are barely discernible, like seconds in a year, yet somehow, when they all come together, they’re significant....
by Susan Elford | Jul 10, 2019 | Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Personal Leadership
How Revelations From a 13-year-old Can Spark Your Own Newfound Freedom “What if I bought you a bus pass and you could go anywhere you wanted?” I asked my youngest on the second day of summer holidays. (I gave her the first day of summer holidays to laze around and...
by Susan Elford | May 8, 2019 | Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Personal Leadership, Success
Grade 12 Grad or Bust – How Graduating from High School Impacts Us As Parents NOTE: This article was originally published in 2019 when my eldest was graduation from high school. Now, in 2023, she’s graduation from university and my youngest is graduation from...
