My business, like so many others, depends on networking. If you don’t know about me, you can’t hire me. I talk to people wherever I go. You never know when you are sitting next to someone who will eventually need a speaker. However today, I’ve been traveling non-stop for four weeks. I just wanted to sit down and be still. Continue reading
It’s a sign of aging when we look at the year and say, “Where did it go?”. But really? Where did 2011 go? I was busy all year. My calendar was full. If you asked me what I accomplished, I don’t have a good answer. Continue reading
How nice. Everyone is walking around with a wonderful attitude of gratitude. We have been told that the more you give thanks, the more you will have to give thanks for. This week we’ve all sent grateful posts out to our face-book friends, we’ve tweeted notes of gratitude to our followers and many of us are, right this minute, in the midst of making an amazing feast for the family, just to commemorate this one day a year when we bow our heads and say thank you. Yes Thanksgiving Day is tomorrow. This is the time when we all pause to give thanks. Really? Continue reading
It seems everyone is looking for the next big thing that is going to give us a long healthy, life and reduce our stress. We take nine different vitamins each morning. We drink our protein shakes at noon and race to the gym to get our hour of power in before we fall into bed at night exhausted. In between all of that we have spent ten hours at work and the rest of the day getting the kids off to school, back home from school, off to ball practice, diner on the table, laundry done and the dog to the vet for shots. We’ve checked in on face book, linked-in and twitter, written our blog and sent out the monthly newsletter. No wonder we are a stressed out nation. Continue reading
This morning I was baking Banana Bread in the kitchen when my CD in the living room ended. I dried my hands on the kitchen towel and went to put another CD in. I had a new one that I hadn’t listened to yet. I attempted to take off the plastic wrapping when I remembered that I had one of those gismo’s that opened CD packages easily. I looked everywhere and didn’t find it, however, I did find a star to an American flag that had flown over an America soldiers home. I had purchased it at a Veterans event a while back and wanted to give it to my brother who is a disabled Vet. I was so happy to find it and remembered I had a letter I was sending to him waiting in the hallway. I went to get it and of course I had already sealed the envelope. I tried to open it to no avail and remembered someone telling me you could unseal an envelope by putting it in the microwave. And so I did. Unfortunately I let it go too long and it caught on fire. I rescued it from the microwave and blew out the flame. It wasn’t completely destroyed. I brought it into my office where I put the star in the envelope and then taped it all up and set it back on the hall table to go out in today’s mail. Then I stood there in the hallway and wondered what it was I was doing in the first place. I went into the kitchen and remembered, “Oh yes I was baking bread.” Then after a few seconds I thought, “No I was doing something in the living room…but what?” I went into the living room and eyed the stereo which was still on but nothing was playing. “Oh I was opening that CD. Now I remember.” Oh dear where the heck did I put it? I walked into the office and there it was on the desk. “hmmm.” I thought. “Why in the world did I bring it in the office?” Oh well may as well open it and play the darn thing. Oh crap. I can’t open it. Where is that little gismo that I bought to help me open these things?
At a time when clients are hard to come by and business is slow in many industries, I think it’s important to see how your actions can make or break a sale. Here are three true stories that happened to me this week. Continue reading
On December 6th I will be a glorious 60 years young. It is an important milestone for me. My life has taken many twists and turns and I’m very pleased at how it has all brought me here to a place that is full of peace and joy. My daughter and I had talked about having a big party, or maybe just a nice dinner out with our family and neither idea seemed very special to me. I wanted to really mark the occasion with something memorable. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to celebrate this day. Today I came up with an idea that, if it works, will make me a very happy 60 year old woman of joy.
When it comes to questions of terror, suffering and evil, no one has all the answers to the why. It is beyond our comprehension that any one person could create such evil. And yet this type of evil has happened throughout history and happens every day in countries around the world. Continue reading
My office is in my home, it’s very hard to ‘get away from it all’. There is always one more task that needs to be done. Most days relaxation is merely a nice idea.
In an attempt to take better care of my self, I decided I would have a little mini spa day and treat myself to a quiet soothing facial. I put on a silk robe, lit a scented candle and dimmed the lights. Continue reading
What has happened to our world? My grandfather used to go to the grocery store give the guy three chickens and a dozen eggs and go home with flour, sugar and salt. If he had nothing to trade, they would shake hands and he’d pay when he had the money. That was called trust. The good old days are so far gone. Continue reading
