The more you practice something, the better you get at it. Well, I just wasn't given that chance. Until, that is, I started receiving calls from telemarketers.

Somewhere between being a know-it-all who didn't care about the feelings and opinions of others (read: aggressive) and being someone who then became overly sensitive to others and their needs (read: passive), I did not develop any assertiveness along the way. I went from one extreme to another.

Time and time again, we see on TV or even hear it in schools or at the workplace. When we get into a fit of frustration, anxiety, or low moods, we are told, go to your happy place.

We are almost always in a state of chaos that we anticipate the day that we can put it all on hold for a couple of days so that we can finally indulge in that book we've been meaning to get into by the beach or to roam the streets of a romantic city while savouring that last scoop of gelato.

Do you believe in luck? I've been on the fence about this for years and I find that the older I get, I still don't really know. For years I thought bad luck followed me everywhere.

Why is it so hard to believe that someone would choose to put their career on hold to practice some self-care? Why do we want to believe that it can be something else?

From the moment we wake up, we are bombarded with decision making tasks. On a day to day basis, we are constantly making decisions that fall on a spectrum of difficulty.

Every so often I run into a newly broken up individual who is at wits end with the dating game. At this point, they're ready to give up on relationships all together and wonder why none of their relationships ever work out. This is where I introduce to them the NO NO list. 

For those of you who are currently living in Toronto, I am sure that I don't have to inform you of the crazy weather we have been having for the past few weeks.

This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Kiru Srikanth from Kiru's Corner. Kiru is a 27-year old YouTuber who began her online journey in 2013 as a way to expose her audience to differing perspectives and to help those with common issues they may be facing.