The Repeat Test

I found this post on LinkedIn this past weekend.

This is a highly effective way to avoid wasting time. Print copies of this updated image and follow instructions from my 2013 article here: https://goo.gl/XrSwoZ

I found it very easy to rank my working day hours but not as easy for my personal time. Was playing an hour of Disco Bees a waste or a repeat? Was laundry virtuous and repeatable or a dirty chore? Was coffee with my neighbour valuable? 

I also struggle with changing the 'red' zones required of me at work because, often, someone else has considered them 'green.' 

It's a good conversation to have with your mentor: how to spend the time; how to change the time.

Title of my speech?

I've recently been asked to chair the Canadian Institute's 3rd Women\'s Leadership Forum East. It should be an amazing day. Minister Patty Hajdu, Minister for the Status of Women in Canada will be there as will many terrific voices, opinions, and shoes.

So I've been debating what to say to open the day. What theme? What message?

• If I were a dictator, here's what I'd do first to change things?
• Challenge all rules except this one?
• Show your roots; show your bra strap; show yourself?
• Ask questions and the person who answers might learn something new?
• When nothing is going right, laugh a little?

It is typical me that I know what I'll be wearing before I know what I'll be saying... Watch for the polka dress...

Is labiaplasty the same as breast augmentation?

Like the post I am referencing, I don't normally blog about vaginas. Not literally anyway.

This post gave me pause for thought.
http://www.xovain.com/news/why-do-people-get-labiaplasty

Beauty is not in perfection but in imperfection.

There are celebrations of the feminine in its many forms out there ...

• http://101vagina.com/home/101-vagina-book-preview/
• http://vaginaproject.org/category/photography/
• http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/26342/1/this-artist-is-pushing-for-recognition-of-vagina-diversity
• http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/the-case-for-teaching-kids-vagina-penis-and-vulva/274969/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-stephenson/why-is-my-penis-funnier-t_b_4285912.html
• http://www.greatwallofvagina.co.uk/about

I am all for doing what makes us more comfortable in our skin... but I question when the discomfort comes from some sense of shame or inadequacy imposed on women from without...