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 [...]
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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 [...]
When we look at the pleasure of a job that isn’t anine 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 yourlife. Let’s look at gratitude. A recent Harvardstudy correlated feelings of gratitude with [...]
Our work is NOT a lot of things, and it’s time to bethankful for that! I’ll start us off with a small list of things your workisn’t, and see how many you can add to this list! This isn’t a 9-5 job. We don’t waste time tryingto look busy [...]
None ofus love everything we do, but should we? Who loves folding laundry or doingdishes or washing the car? In our daily jobs there is also the minutiae oftasks which we may come to dread, but focusing on what we don’t likerobs us of the joy of what we [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is the big week for all of us tricksters, isn’t it? We think of grandiose resolutions, ones we have never kept and probably will abdicate on short order early in January, but which make us feel wonderful when we say them. Who are we fooling? Some changes need to [...]