Birth Announcement!

On January 27th, 2014, we delivered a healthy new book! We’ve named her Born Again Dreammakers and she measures 8 inches x 8 inches. She is the second book from the Connoisseur of Life Collection (Younger sister to Rockstar52 who was born in January 2013. You can view some snapshots of Rockstar52 here or get the full […]

A BAD Post.

We live in a world that glorifies being busy and magnifies material goods. In the midst of it all is a deep desire within all of us for…connection. Real connection with real people. A type of connection that says,  “I hear you. I feel your pain. I celebrate your success. I understand. You can do it. You are worth […]

The Tarnish Rule

Most of us have heard of “The Golden Rule”: Treat others the way you would like to be treated. Today I want to look at another “rule” that more often than not creeps into our everyday behaviour making the Golden Rule a little (or extremely) rusty The Tarnish Rule shows up as “Treat others the […]

Inspired Failure

*please click image to enlarge or continue below for plain text version **plain text version** I have failed…several times. There are many things that I have attempted in life and many have resulted in failure. I tried out year after year for the basketball and volleyball teams…I never made it once. I was a budding […]

Free Admission

I, Joann Lim, am perfectly imperfect. I make mistakes. I am wrong sometimes. The more I know, the more I realize I don’t know. I am unrealistically realistic. I am my biggest critic. I am also my biggest motivator. Sometimes my plans don’t turn out the way I think they will. That’s ok. They often […]