Pertinacity

I suppose it’s not uncommon to be told by our mothers that we are special, but apparently, many of us have been told this, over and over again, and actually, seemingly, believe it. One of the new meanings for a common word to make its entry into the 2016 Collins English dictionary was attributed to […]

Aleksandra understands that life – and any worthwhile career – is a marathon. As such, she is not concerned that her current position doesn’t pay a salary commensurate with her efforts or the responsibilities she shoulders in it. She is using the job just as surely as the Corporation she is employed by is using

This profile of someone that has “made more monie” is about a single mom who came to Canada from Poland. I met her while I was managing a large condominium corporation in downtown Toronto, along with a smaller site. I was responsible for a shared facilities component as well, made up of several entities, including

In my previous post, I wrote in general terms what I do for fitness and touched on why, indicating that I need to stay as fit as possible for as long as possible as in this life of mine, I have many miles to go, so to speak. Achieving a ‘fun’ancially successful existence in the

As I have much to achieve in life, and knowing it is a “survival of the fittest” challenge, I need to ensure I keep myself as physically fit and strong as I can for as long as I can. Luckily for me, I have a fighter’s mentality, which helps me embrace the very hard work

Back in Canada, at age twenty-two, his father offered to sell his Vancouver-based company to him, but having seen the struggle of keeping it afloat first-hand years earlier, Nathan declined, staying on as an employee after it was sold to another. Two years later saw the company fold and, out of work, Nathan moved to

This post features Nathan, who was interviewed by Make More Monie as he has demonstrated, like others I’ve had the privilege to interview, tenacity in attaining his goal. This goal initially was to be a part of his family’s tradition of high-rise window cleaning, which goes back almost fifty years and serves the never-ending need

By 2007, Susana had grown tired of the cloudy, rainy, dull and dreary Vancouver weather. Although she missed her family and friends, she also missed the varied and seasonal climate of Buenos Aires, and especially the sun. So much so that it convinced her that even the weather of Toronto, with its biting cold in

My inaugural Make More Monie interviewee is none other than my life partner and best friend, Susana, and her story is one of those that demonstrates tenacity at its finest. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she was a precocious one, that challenged – and was challenged – by her parents. From the moment she realized

Part one of this post was about the incredible success of world-renowned author, J.K. Rowling, through obvious talent, but also tenacity. In overcoming personal and professional adversity, she found a way to achieve her goal of becoming a writer. As mentioned in that post, in July 1995, as poor as one can possibly be in

In “making more monie”, it cannot be stressed enough the importance of marshaling resources, then tenaciously applying them to a goal. In this post – and in part two of it – these tactics are demonstrated by a very well-known writer and an almost equally-famous fighter. In her mid-twenties, in the summer of 1990 during