When we first introduce people to the concept of Pretirement, the scene often rolls out like this. Us: “Blah, blah, blah…then we changed our lives and never looked back. Pretirement is an amazing way to do business and live an awesome life!  We get to do all sorts of cool stuff from traveling the world [...]

We’re catching up again with Julie Nowell!  In this post, she shares where her inspiration came from to take the first steps in her Pretirement journey last year.   It all started right here in Whistler! – Shannon It has been almost a year since we “started” our new life. It has been much longer [...]

In my past life as a “regular” entrepreneur I had a standing meeting in my calendar for Monday mornings at 9 am.  The meeting was held with with my staff to review the week’s projects. It would get us all on the same page and set the tone for the week ahead. Fast forward 5 [...]

This is the time of year when everyone is busy making their New Year’s resolutions. Most involve bettering ourselves in some way. What if, instead of making resolutions this year, we made one simple, yet powerful unresolution – to let ourselves off the hook for not being perfect and for not being/doing/having more? What if we [...]

I like to think I lead a relatively low-stress life, by design.  The exception to this is the 4 week period from mid-December to mid-January each year. During this period I move my family twice, stay with my in-laws for 3 weeks over Christmas, organize and pack for 3 months in the jungle, and it’s [...]

This is our Christmas wish for you: Stop. Feeling. Guilty. Guilt serves no positive purpose. It also drains energy like a set of old Christmas lights. It’s so easy to feel guilty at every turn this time of year.  Work is busier than ever, party invitations are piling up, kids activities have multiplied ten-fold and, [...]

When it comes to success, comparisons are never helpful.  If you must compare your success with another’s, make sure you look at the whole picture. Look at the good, but don’t ignore the bad & the ugly. What did that person have to give up to get where they are? What did they sacrifice?  If [...]

“It’s never too late” is a lie. Most of the time, anyway. Sure, it’s true in some scenarios, like trying to better yourself (there’s always room for improvement), but in many cases there is a very well defined window of opportunity. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. All of the sudden you look up and it is [...]

Since when is trading a Lexus for a Honda trading up? When is trading a mortgage for a rental agreement trading up? When is trading 12 employees for 1 trading up? By trading the Lexus for the Honda you may be freeing up cash to start your dream business. When you trade the mortgage for a [...]