Betty-Ann Heggie's Reflections on Gender Physics

Where’s Waldo and How to Find a Mentor

Women who want the benefit of a mentor often don’t know how to find one. Identifying a mentor amongst the masses can be as overwhelming as finding Waldo on the crowded, colourful illustration of a children’s picture book. However, just like Waldo, locating a mentor gets easier with time and practice. While you can pick [...] Related posts:

Women with Mentors Develop Good Gender Physics

Research shows that women with mentors more fully live their potential. This vital relationship encourages them to break free of gender expectations to optimize both masculine and feminine energy. In short, mentors help women develop good Gender Physics. Being born a woman means that you are naturally gifted with a certain amount of feminine energy. [...] Related posts:

Serve Others to Serve Yourself

Service is good for your career but better than that, service is good for your soul. Use this win-win to create personal satisfaction and professional achievement in 2012. I learned the value of customer service at my father’s knee growing up in a small town hotel. The morning after a big storm, the cars of [...] Related posts:

Build your Resilience and Push Through

Women find success by accepting opportunities and risk. They have the ability to frame the world positively and push through building self-reliance as they go, found the global management consultant McKinsey. In their report, “Centered Leadership: How Talented Women Thrive”, McKinsey reports that successful women around the globe had the three attributes of presence, belonging [...] Related posts:

Give Gratitude this Holiday Season

Gratitude is a powerful tool, yet it’s easy to forget in the midst of what can be a frantic holiday season. Stop today and think of all the things you are thankful for and express it. For others, it will be meaningful, but for you it will be transformational. The year is coming to a [...] Related posts:

Wrestling Down Time at Christmastime

At Christmas, it’s easy to feel like you are constantly in motion. With all the things that demand time and attention, you may feel like you have earned a gold medal in multi-tasking. But recent research by Vanderbilt University shows that when we try to do too much, we become less efficient, have lower creativity [...] Related posts:

Have a Mindful Christmas

Christmas, with all its hustle and bustle, can be a stressful time. And, when our stress goes up, our insight goes down. That can cause you to overreact and hurt someone’s feelings exactly when you want to have peace and good will. The antidote to change this downward spiral can be found in instituting a [...] Related posts:

Change it Up for Resiliency

In our constantly changing world, we need resiliency to reach our goals. But how do we find the internal fortitude to keep forging forward when facing the uncertainty of the unknown? The answer can be found in changing things up. Sue Kagel, International President of Healing Touch Inc., says resiliency comes from overcoming our natural [...] Related posts:

The Power of Connecting and Belonging

When we connect with others, we belong. That satisfies a primary human need and provides a group to help us. Women, especially, need to engage the assistance of others to progress – none of us can go it alone. We know this intuitively and research by the global management firm, McKinsey, proves it. After interviewing [...] Related posts:

It is Time to Review “Normalized” Behaviour

It is time for our society to do some self-analysis and raise our standards for “normalized” behaviour to protect women entering male-dominated work environments from becoming objects. This issue has come to the forefront since the groundbreaking news of Cpl. Catherine Galliford’s sexual allegations against several senior officers of the RCMP. In a 115-page document, [...] Related posts: