by Susan Elford | Jun 3, 2023 | Career, Featured, Happiness, Work / Life Balance
7 things I Wish I’d Known When I Was 17 NOTE: I originally wrote this blog post five years ago when my eldest turned 17. This week she turns 22. We are celebrating her as she graduates with an Honours Science degree in Kinesiology this month and she continues to...
by Susan Elford | May 15, 2023 | Featured, Happiness, Personal Leadership, Work / Life Balance
Spring Cleaning For Your Business, Career and Life I’ve been writing recently about being able to hear the sound of your own voice in amidst the clutter that can fill up our brain space. This month I want to talk about physical clutter and decisions that no longer...
by Susan Elford | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured, Highlight, Success, Work / Life Balance
Years ago, when I was working in my Communications Consulting business, I received an unprompted call from someone in my network who pitched the idea of my working with a coach. I didn’t even know what that was. I respectfully declined and let him know I’d reach out...
by Susan Elford | Jul 6, 2022 | Business, Career, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Personal Leadership, Success, Work / Life Balance
7 Ways to Set Your Business or Career Up so you can Take Your Annual Vacation With Confidence It’s that time of year again. That time of year when people start looking to summer vacation and wondering if they “dare” to actually take their earned days off, or time away...
by Susan Elford | May 9, 2022 | Business, Career, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Personal Leadership, Success, Work / Life Balance
Instead of adding to your to-do list, put yourself on it. Have you ever been in a place where you wanted to scream, “Stop the world I want to get off!?!” That place of frustration, perhaps even panic, and very likely burn-out? That place that today perhaps looks like...
by Susan Elford | May 3, 2022 | Featured, Personal Leadership, Work / Life Balance
Years ago, when I started my first maternity leave, after I got through the initial fogginess of sleepless nights, non-stop parenting and keeping my newborn alive, I started to look for something else to do. I yearned to do something that wasn’t for anyone else, just...