Top Ten
Today, I sat in a marketing seminar that sounded awfully familiar to me…maybe it was not to everyone in the room. I am guessing, however, that even if you are not a marketing guru these top ten phrases will probably Read More …
Category: career
Can’t Fool Kids
When you can’t fool kids, you have a serious problem. Kids are generally more gullible than adults. They’re less experienced because they just haven’t been exposed to as much as their parents and elders… The adults at our table today Read More …
Best Learned Early
Lots of things are best learned early – before you are set in your ways…but there is always hope for someone who is determined to try something new. Are you too old to learn how to do a cartwheel at Read More …
Childhood Skills
Most parents and many kids know the truth – that experience and those basic, childhood skills really matter to success later in life. Crawling – to get to a table to stand up (not just for toddlers…) Balance – gaining Read More …
Collective Experience
Both education and business rely in the collective experience of others to be successful. In education it is learning and reinterpreting concepts, following experiments, proofs and research – constantly building upon those who went before us. It is refined, corrected Read More …
Schedule Changes
Little schedule changes can make a huge difference some days. Tonight was back to school night. Last year, it took us over an hour to get out of the high school – where we were parked in the overflow, gravel, Read More …
Change in Perspective
Set in your ways? Young and impressionable? Open minded? Any of these still allow for a change in perspective. If we are unwilling, unable or uncompromising – we can’t grow. If we are too willing, able or compromising – we Read More …
What’s It Worth
If someone offers you a project, a client or a job, what’s it worth to you? Our kids are less than enthusiastic at times to do jobs for money. I have offered, what I think was a more than reasonable Read More …
Certain Services
In almost any arena of personal and professional life, there are certain services that are meant to be done by an expert. New homeowners often tackle things like their 1/2 acre lawn because they can spend a $150 on a Read More …
Worthy
Supporting a local charity, or a youth sports organization is definitely a worthy cause. Spending my Friday evening or Saturday morning; however, working at the snack stand isn’t quite my idea of valuable… Our group requires a $50 snack stand Read More …