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Woodstock doctor still on the job at 86

October 10, 2010 To Work
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Story and photos by Geoff Dale WOODSTOCK, ON – One might assume that 86-year-old Dr. Norman Edward Burt-Gerrans might want to step back momentarily and smell the roses, taking a breather from a career that has spanned more than half a century. Yet retirement just doesn’t appear to be in the cards for the well-respected [...]

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7 Steps to Goal Setting

May 14, 2010 To Work
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By Fiona Walsh 3 traits of successful people Future-oriented: clear vision of what they would like to be or do in the future Goal-oriented: know what they want to accomplish in the short, medium, and long term Action-oriented: they take action quickly. 7 Steps to Goal Setting: 1. Decide what you want in specific areas [...]

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The 9 Secrets of Betty White’s Success

April 12, 2010 To Work
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By Carolyn Anderson MD At 88 years old, Betty White is more popular than ever. In the past year, she has appeared in a major film, The Proposal, starred in a popular Super Bowl ad for Snickers and has been featured on numerous popular talk shows. Thanks to a Facebook Fan page with over 500,000 [...]

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Dr. Carolyn’s Top 10 Business Books

April 5, 2010 To Work
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The founder of Impowerage, Carolyn Anderson is a doctor who owns a thriving eye surgery practice, private surgery clinic, and a real-estate development company. She is writing a book for seniors and developing courses for other doctors who want to replicate her success. While her medical training came from UBC and Stanford University, her business [...]

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Barbara Boldt: A Colorful Life

April 2, 2010 To Work
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Barbara Boldt is not someone who paints as a hobby, she is a painter. That is not to say that she doesn’t enjoy painting but as her only source of income, painting is her full-time job. At 79, she paints as often as she can in between promoting her painting and her daily activities. In [...]

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Mary Landell

October 12, 2009 To Work
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By Mary Landell As a 60+ single career woman who is running two successful businesses, every decade in life gets better. The Impowerage mission is all about “Empowering yourself to living a life of passion and contribution”. I see myself as a pilgrim in the Christian context, and I’m here to say that my source [...]

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60 + employment reaps rewards with progressive organizations

September 3, 2009 To Work
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by Greg Stephens I’m an “older” worker. In the employment and career development field, we don’t use the word “older”; the preferred term is “mature”, defined by Service Canada as someone in the 45+ category. As you can probably tell from the picture, I have been in the “mature” category for quite a few years. [...]

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Judy Smith- A Road Less Traveled

August 24, 2009 To Work
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By Judy Smith Life has a way of playing tricks on a person. While I was studying poetry in my late twenties, I decided that I would not live past the age of 35. Many of the great poets had not lived beyond this age, and I fully intended on becoming a great poet. So [...]

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Robert Payne: Loving Longevity

August 5, 2009 To Work
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Media vet credits career success to standing out and stepping up by Donna Kakonge Robert Payne is a man who has known some ups and downs. Chance, perseverance and ambitious choices have littered an illustrious life in media born out of a fortuitous whim played out in his hometown of Quebec City over four decades [...]

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Roger McTair

July 17, 2009 To Work
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by Donna Kakonge Roger McTair is a director, poet, professor and writer living in Toronto. His short stories have aired on CBC Radio and BBC Radio and his films have enjoyed international audiences. The artist’s list of accomplishments outweighs his desire to keep a resume, so he has stopped keeping track. One may wonder what [...]

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