Archive for the ‘lessons’ Category
what’s really important?
Life is so easy to get lost in, everything from cranky driving to believing you MUST answer all those damn email messages. Trust me, they are not going away. I have had some interesting life challenges over the last several years, exponentially growing beyond the wildest thoughts of even Dean Koontz. What to do now? [...]
In: family, lessons · Tagged with: important, life, lucky stars
Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Virtues
Have you ever tried to follow these? Not easy! Benjamin Franklin only focused on 1 per week; I think highly advisable. Try it & you will find yourself truly becoming a better person. If you need additional information about what an extraordinary person Ben Franklin really was, checkout “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” by Walter Isaacson. 1. [...]
In: lessons · Tagged with: 13 virtues, benjamin franklin, walter isaacson
just because it has always been this way…
A friend of mine recently told me this story, primarily due to our conversation being centered around, ”just because things have always been done this way, doesn’t mean it’s right”. Sally was slaving away, cooking Thanksgiving dinner when her brother, Jim, soon approached and asked, “why do you cut both ends off the ham?” Sally, stunned [...]
In: lessons · Tagged with: change
the answers have changed
Have you ever looked back and wondered, “why in the heck did I make that decision?” More than likely you asked yourself some simple pro & con style questions and then just went with your choice. Next, your traveling down the road, life has changed, situations have altered & nowhere in sight is the reasoning [...]
In: lessons · Tagged with: albert einstein, think, wisdom
insanity
Have you ever heard this definition of insanity? “to do the same thing day in & day out, expecting different results” I love it! The ruts of life, golden hand cuffs, whatever you want to call it, we as humans love to beat a dead horse. We will do things over & over because we [...]
In: lessons · Tagged with: insanity, purpose
wisdom is power
I have never really been interested in “philosophy”, mainly in terms of debating others (this is probably driven from my monotoned college professor). I love life and personally, don’t really care what people think. I have a wonderful family, business that is picking up traction and friends that you couldn’t ask for better. However, I stumbled across this [...]
In: lessons · Tagged with: james arthur ray, knowledge, power, science of success, wisdom
BofA sucks
I HATE BofA…this bank is the worst I have ever been a part of. Now, I am not a newbie to BofA, I am going on 8 years with them. The coolest thing about them, their online bill pay – very intuitive & easy. The worst thing about them – their customer service and nickle & [...]
In: lessons · Tagged with: bank of america, bofa
friendship
One of my best friends in the whole world sure has a way with words. I read this yesterday, re-read it today & just had to post it. Francis & Christal…thank you for YOUR friendship; it truly means the world to our family. Chef – great comments!! “hello everybody, Just checkin the e-mail and noticed [...]
In: lessons · Tagged with: francis walters, friendship
the dip
Not sure if you have ever experienced the “dip”. It is a fall for that split second that makes your stomach shoot to your throat and where all others feelings disappear. I have experience this in a car, plane and now our business. WOW, is about all I can say. Trucking along, building sales, networking like [...]
In: lessons, renee's · Tagged with: business planning, hard times
are you awesome?
“From Average to AWESOME” by Jim Smith, Jr. This is a great feel good book. Each chapter ends by asking you to “Quickly turn to your Personal Awesome Action Plan Page (p…) and write the five “awesome actions” you’re going to take as a result of reading this chapter…” A much more difficult challenge than [...]
In: lessons, quotes · Tagged with: from average to awesome, jim smith jr, les brown
flush
Flush – this term has several meanings, everything from a published book title to a growth of mushrooms. The meaning for me & our company is keeping the clutter of life and its never ending stuff of non-importance flushed away and out of our day to day thinking. Several days ago we did not have our finest [...]
In: lessons, renee's · Tagged with: clutter, flush, mental snowball
