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After 40 years of marriage, are we running out of things to talk about? On our walk this morning, we asked ourselves: Are there more ants on Planet Earth than stars in the Milky Way Galaxy? By a factor of about 100,000 times, ants win! Prof Bruce FOR REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT AND BUSINESS COACHING THAT’LL […]

As part of our coaching team, my spouse Dawn MacMillan Firestone, provides life coaching services which help executives, entrepreneurs and many other others achieve a positive mindset, increase their emotional intelligence, be more adaptable and resilient, discover the power in life-long learning and how to become more self-governing. These tools are essential to success in […]

–for entrepreneurs, business owners, creatives and professionals YES, I want to apply to and sign up for Bruce Firestone’s Beating Back the Blues and Charting a New Course… for entrepreneurs, business owners, creatives and professionals DOWNLOAD: Course Description, Schedule, Application/Signup Form, https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0kq4rtxzqdjhc9vszqhem/beating-back-the-blues-course-descrption-application-signup-schedule-bruce-m-firestone-phd.pdf?rlkey=z8f028405893d3qljvg8ozxi1&st=gjpjfib8&dl=0 What will I learn and experience? -you will learn you are not alone […]

Want to know how important a 1st client is? Well, read on… Suppose you and your spouse are walking past a downtown eatery. The posted menu and prices look decent but there is no one in the store. Across the road, there is another restaurant almost identical in terms of look, menu and price but […]

May he #RIP. Leo got me out of all sorts of scrapes including one wintry day he had his almost brand-new tractor clearing one of our ponds so my kids could skate that Xmas. I watched as he elegantly swept back and forth rather majestically moving snow to uncover pristine ice beneath. However, I noticed […]

Any time someone offers you investments with returns of 1000% per year, you are right to be skeptical, but this is what Australian economist “Mr 1000%” Andrew Firestone has been working on for a number of years now. He reckons he will be able to present how households can add an equivalent of $60,000 to […]

Are you familiar with the BBC series From Lark Rise to Candleford? It’s about life in two neighboring places in the late 19th century—one a poor rural village called Lark Rise where life is a struggle, and tother being a more prosperous town called Candleford. They are 8-miles apart with a muddy track the only […]

Most people know about the prisoner’s dilemma even if it’s just intuitively rather than explicitly— Two people are accused of a joint crime. Police detectives put both suspects in individual interrogation rooms. They offer each of them a deal—if you’re first to talk, you’ll get jail time of just two years. If the other party […]

The smaller the house you build, the more creative you need to be. One of my daughters is moving into her own home that is just 192 sq ft. She’ll live right next door to a small workshop (about 350 sq ft) where she will design and produce high fashion custom clothing for glamorous women […]

We helped one of my daughters (I have five children) buy a home four years ago for $345,000. We added a basement apartment for $80k so her total cost is about $425,000. We had it appraised last month—after insane pandemic-induced appreciation, it’s now worth $760,000 according to a local appraiser. First thing she said to […]

Over the Christmas holidays, I was rereading The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. I read it when I was a kid and enjoyed it, so I thought I’d see what I think of it now. It’s about five Union soldiers who escape Confederate captivity during the US Civil War in a balloon that is swept […]

[By the way, I have a few paperback copies I am giving away for Xmas. If you’re in Ottawa Canada and would like to drop by and get a copy, let me know, bruce.firestone@century21.ca. These proof copies have a few spelling errors in them (an absolute no-no in any book but especially one written for […]