I know! We all are in them all the time…but some things just never register. Visit the Miracle Mile in Chicago, and revel in this secret knowledge as you shop. In this month of learning new interesting facts, I thought some weird facts about the places where we work might be of note. You […]
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Did You Know?
As we spring into this new phase of 2021, let’s look at some interesting facts and why they matter to you. Like or not, we live in this age, we work with these people, and we are affected by the air we breathe. Let’s look at the emerging workforce of 2021. Did you […]
Who’s Ready to Start a Garden?
Get better at what you do. It’s a pretty straightforward concept, isn’t it? As we get better, we get faster and we earn kudos from our employer. We earn raises and bonuses. These are not new concepts…but when we work in absentia from the home office, we operate on our own. It’s easy to become […]
How to Get the Most from your Position
When we look at the pleasure of a job that isn’t a nine to five cubicle, we find a lot to appreciate! That appreciation is a tool, a way to interject a more positive attitude and growing happiness into your life. Let’s look at gratitude. A recent Harvard study correlated feelings of gratitude with a […]
Find Value In What It Isn’t
Our work is NOT a lot of things, and it’s time to be thankful for that! I’ll start us off with a small list of things your work isn’t, and see how many you can add to this list! This isn’t a 9-5 job. We don’t waste time trying to look busy to keep a […]
Learn top Speak a New Language: Posispeak
None of us love everything we do, but should we? Who loves folding laundry or doing dishes or washing the car? In our daily jobs there is also the minutiae of tasks which we may come to dread, but focusing on what we don’t like robs us of the joy of what we do […]
Reading To Be a Better Employee
Retail Merchandising 2021 As we close out this month of self-improvement, let’s look at an industry standard. Let’s look at two issues: First, the process of putting merchandise on shelves, and second, the shrinking number of shelves. At first glance, our work is pretty much a no-brainer. We follow instructions. A company contacts Teresa and […]
Read and Create!
Even in my elementary brain, reading and writing have gone together like peas and carrots or coffee and cream. I wanted to grow up to be the next Erma Bombeck, but discovered I just wasn’t that funny. It’s not that I can’t elicit grins during conversation, but crafting my writing to be funny feels like […]
Out of This World
This week’s book is a page turner…because we can’t always be focused on self-improvement. As a person who loves words, I have been an avid reader all my life. In my younger years I held to a reading program that included four types of books: one on self-improvement, a biography or autobiography, a non-fiction on […]
A Perfect Read for Wintery Weather
Something about cold weather sends me for a soft, warm comforter and a good book. I know we all have page turners we love, but I’d like to encourage you to adopt a little 2021 plan of self-improvement. Read some books this January aimed at making you a better employee, a better person. To that […]