Entries Categorized as 'Career'

What Good Is Practice?

Date June 28, 2008

photo credit: Darhawk
“It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.” — Eric Lindros

With three kids in many differnt sports and music programs, it seems there is always a practice of some sort to go to. Right now it’s baseball, softball, and [...]

The Brick Walls Are There For A Reason

Date June 5, 2008

photo credit: visualdensity
“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” — Og Mandino
What are the brick walls you face? How do you handle them?
If everything were easy, what kind of joy would we really get? The obstacles [...]

When Bad = Good (or Great)

Date May 20, 2008

photo credit: Meredith_Farmer
Sometimes things don’t go as planned, or something simple becomes much more difficult. This happens to everyone. It happened to me this weekend. Let me share with you. I work in the information technology field for a small manufacturing company. This past weekend, we upgraded a key [...]

Are You Having Fun?

Date April 30, 2008

photo credit: Taylor Hand
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." — Dale Carnegie
Are you having fun at what you do? In life? At home? In the workplace? If you’re not, it’s time to re-evaluate what you are doing in these areas. [...]

How Valuable Are You?

Date April 30, 2008

photo credit: preciouskhyatt
How do you determine YOUR value? A sign I spotted on the way home tonight: “Your value is not determined by your valuables”. A very good lesson. It can become easy to compare ourselves to what our neighbors have in their front yard. But it is much more important what kind of [...]

Simplify…Continued

Date April 26, 2008

Simplify what?
Simplify whatever it is in your life that can benefit from some simplification!  For me, I’ll be looking at ways to simplify my home - make it less cluttered.  But it’s also looking at your work and personal life.  Are you doing things that don’t add any value to your life or others?  Is [...]

Simplify!

Date April 25, 2008

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” — Henry David Thoreau
More to come tomorrow…
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