Keep Your Head Up
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, and happy Friday! Food for thought! Make it a GREAT day and a GREAT weekend! Stay blessed.
Leisure At Its Best
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! “Leisure is at its best when one is so busy that a little leisure time is the goal.” – 8,789 Words of Wisdom Busy and productive are two oft mistakenly interchanged, but very different, terms. Only sometimes are they even related. Leisure may be at it’s best when we are […]
Finding The Humor
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I’ve found that it’s very difficult to be angry or upset with a smile. When I was young, and upset – frowning or crying – my father would alsways say, “I wish you could see your face right now!” and half the time he’d be laughing at me. In truth, […]
Find A Way To Give
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! It’s been a while! I trust that all is well! “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” – Mark Graham I love this quote. It’s simple and it’s clear. But I know that I need to be reminded on occasion, because as we progress in this […]
Know When To Speak Up
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Know when to speak up.” – 8,789 Words of Wisdom One thing I’ve learned via social media is that there’s a time and a place for everything that we say, and the level of appropriateness is often relative to 2 things in particular. One is is the national (or global) community […]
Expect The Best
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Happy Monday! This weekend, I had the good fortune of getting back out on the basketball court. It’s something I love to do, but rarely have (make) time to do. I’m always looking for perspective and life lessons. Sports and competition tend to provide many of them, and Sunday morning […]
Leaders Set Priorities
Good morning, ladies, and gentlemen! Happy Friday! From Stan Toler’s, “Minute Motivators for Leaders” Ineffective leaders do the obvious things first. Effective leaders do the important things first. A good leader knows that urgent and vitalare not equivalent terms. Many tasks cry out for attention. But the effective leader decides which of those tasks are truly important to the achievement of […]
Be A Lifelong Learner
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! It’s amazing how much there is in this world that we don’t know. Things that we never think to think about. This morning, I came across an interesting read. A few minutes and few clicks later I found myself engaged in thinking about some things that I’d hadn’t really considered […]
The Rubber Year
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! And happy new year! The team member who spends an inordinate amount of time reflecting on the last play is the one who probably won’t have the courage to execute the next one.” – Stan Toler This, as I have mentioned to some of my friends and family already, is […]
Doing Big Things
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! Travel and catching up got the best of me today, so I apologize for the delayed send! We find ourselves in the last few hours of the calendar year. We’ve already begun to make moves on some things, we are prepared to move on some, and we’re still figuring others out. […]
Open To New Traditions
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And happy Monday! You’ve probably heard of Kwanzaa. But you may or may not know anything about it. The celebration is a week long, commencing December 26th and culminating January 1st. I urge you, in the interest of simply exercising your brain and becoming more informed, to read up on […]
Preparing To Make The Play
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and happy Friday! “When the coach calls your number… You gotta do what the play calls for.” https://www.upworthy.com/a-bus-driver-just-saw-a-terrible-situation-and-hit-the-brakes-to-save-a-womans-life?c=ufb1 The gentleman in this video could easily have kept driving and just made a call to the police. That would have been the non-play. That would have been him relying on somebody else […]