Category Archives: Audit Management

I hope everyone had a great holiday season and returned to work refreshed and ready to tackle 2013. Every new year brings new goals, challenges and possibilities. Now, I will be the first to admit that I’m not a big believer in New Year’s Resolutions. I can’t say that I’m perfect in all aspects of my life, but I have never viewed the changing of the year as the primary motivator for addressing some area of my being that requires improvement – if you need to change something (or procrastinate instead of changing that something) there’s no time like the present. That said, I do appreciate that our behaviors and routines are largely dictated by the calendar, and I can understand why the uptick to a new year has a powerful effect on people and it motivates them to make a change in their lives. Continue reading →

Over Thanksgiving weekend, I celebrated my 39th birthday. The first thing that struck me about hitting 39 was that “39” doesn’t seem nearly as “old” as it did when I was 23 and ready to take on the world (although my body does seem to creak and snap a bit more each morning). The other, more profound, phenomenon was the amount of introspection that comes with approaching a major age milestone. Pondering the big “four-oh” caused me to reflect on how I’ve spent my life. Being somewhat of a data geek, I broke it down into the following percentages: Continue reading →