Can’t or won’t
On your way home from work, you can stop for a few beer with the guys or your can surprise everyone at home with flowers, pizza and a half gallon of ice cream. You make your family more important than your friends.
Your “EX” [...]
Continue Reading →Be afraid. Be very afraid.
There are now 14 million adult “children” living at home with dear old mom and dad. And, the number is growing and growing.
If you don’t have a job or are working part-time or contract or unbenefited, it is very difficult [...]
Continue Reading →You learn from observation. You see people who make good choices. You see people who make poor choices. Are you learning?
You see Melika spending tens of thousands of dollars opening a restaurant specializing in Moroccan soups. You think, “Who the hell wants Moroccan soups?” You are correct. You think, “What is this idiot thinking?” You [...]
Continue Reading →Here is a quiz to which the average fifth grader would score 100%.
What matters? What shouldn’t matter? What doesn’t matter?
Acceptance of work hard – MATTERS
Focused written goals – MATTERS
Type of business/career – SHOULDN’T MATTER
Dysfunctional family – SHOULDN’T MATTER
Accepts constructive criticism – MATTERS
Leadership [...]
Continue Reading →Other people aren’t mind readers.
So, speak up. Tell them. Just say it.
If you are interested in a promotion, inform the appropriate supervisor, just say it.
If you intend to get an “A” in a course, tell the professor, just say it.
If you’d like that pretty coed to know you’re interested in a [...]
Continue Reading →You get cut off in traffic. It happens.
Your best client buys somewhere else. It happens.
You go jogging and pull a muscle. It happens.
You go to a great movie that turns out to be a dud. It happens.
You study and still get a C. It happens.
You negotiate a [...]
Continue Reading →You’ve heard the old saying, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
Old sayings get passed on for a reason – they resonate. You hear them. They make sense. You remember them.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Rome was built by thousands and thousands of workers over thousands and thousands of days. [...]
Continue Reading →You can be all that you can be: a tough, thoughtful, spiritual person of action.
You can have a great job.
You can be in a wonderful relationship.
You can be blessed with many friends.
You can be a community leader and contribute much.
And, with one bad choice, it can all come crashing down. Continue Reading →
Only 23% of college courses require a final examination.
What?
Only 23% of college courses require a final examination.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. The students are running the colleges.
The case against final exams are that they are stressful and don’t really help students. It’s a final so [...]
Continue Reading →Stop, pause and think how rich you are.
Do you have a loving spouse, nice children? You are already rich.
In this down economy, do you have a secure job? You are already rich.
Are you healthy? You are already rich.
The rich like to watch great movies and [...]
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