We’re looking at a shortened work week and the celebration of the 4th of July, but look at the broader picture. We all admire the sacrifices made by early patriots like Patrick Henry, “Give me liberty or give me death!” Nathan Hale inspires us, “I regret that I have [...]
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We live in a visual world, don’t we? Facebook caters to this, with lots of graphics and a proliferation of memes. Longer articles are subjected to narrow little columns and discourage the average person flipping through their feed for whatever shouts for attention. This is also true when it comes [...]
Have you ever been accused of being the Eager Beaver type? If you are working at a part time gig to supplement your income, you just might fit into that category. We all live busy lives. One of my favorite sayings is, “I always wanted to live a full life, [...]
Do you ever feel like you wear too many hats? How many balls are you franticallyjuggling as you face another week of way too many responsibilities? Life isjust like that. We all smile when we remember our younger selves, longing forthe carefree days of adulthood, thinking that without school [...]
We crept gingerly out of isolation into a world roiling with anger. From protests to division over how the pandemic has been handled, on the surface we look like a nation divided. The response of each person is punctuated with frustration and concern over the unknown. At times we feel [...]
Our 2020 grads enter a changed world, and so do we, as westruggle to reopen businesses and revive the economy. Most of us left high schooland entered a landscape we recognized. Today we all face a changed world andadapting to that change lies incumbent upon all of us. What are [...]
If you’re a lover of the Wizard of Oz,you’re familiar with flying monkeys. These creatures existed under the dominionof the Wicked Witch of the East and did her bidding, almost as if they had nowill of their own. When her spell was broken, we see a very different mindsetportrayed. Let’s [...]
When we moved to our new home I quicklyrealized it was infested with squirrels. These seemingly cute little creaturesscamper across our deck all day long, they forage through the tomatoes as if weplanted the crop just for them, and their antics taught me a lot about being arep. First and [...]
We all carry things through life. John Bunyan, that sage Christian writer from the 1600’s, described the pilgrim’s life from prison, being no stranger to burdens borne. Tim O’Brien in The Things They Carried described the emotional baggage of war, of horrific sights and lessons learned. He wrote that soldiers [...]
As we look at the return of normalcy and YAY!, the return ofour jobs. Let’s redefine what being a rep looks like. What is this world ofmerchandising reps? What do we do and what’s the best way to get the job done?Some of you may be ready to jump on [...]