Central America, Part 1 — Coming Face to Face with the Ugliness of Money Scarcity

Central America, Part 1 — Coming Face to Face with the Ugliness of Money Scarcity

While away in Guatemala this past March, I had the chance to experience something I haven’t been able to experience in a long time: scarcity. What an eye-(re)opening experience!

Of course, I took care of doing some research, but I didn’t do as much as I likely should have because I thought all we had to do was get settled and then we could go from there. BIG MISTAKE.

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The "Plane" Truth - Assumptions Keep Us Shackled to Our Beliefs (and vice versa)

The "Plane" Truth - Assumptions Keep Us Shackled to Our Beliefs (and vice versa)

I had an interesting experience on the last leg of our trip home from Costa Rica. On the flight from Toronto to Winnipeg I was sitting next to a woman in her fifties from Winnipeg who worked for a large raw materials organization in the city. She’d been in TO for training on a new ERP system her company was migrating to, having kept their system for over twenty years. 

She talked the talk and looked the look of someone who worked in corporate Canada.

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