As you pause this Sunday to remember our fellow citizens that were lost 10 years ago please also remember the additional casualties of American military personnel and their families.
6,229 service members have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and 45,889 have been wounded since the “War on Terror” began.
Are you looking for some way to help…visit www.FathersoftheBrave.org and support America’s combat wounded and their families. Thank you and God Bless America.
Everywhere you turn these days the media is talking about the…quite literally growing… obesity problem in this country. The statistics are alarming. Did you know that more than 30% of our 330 million fellow citizens are overweight and suffering health issues?
I worked in emergency medicine for 30 years, many of those in the field on an ambulance or paramedic unit. I saw, and carried, many people suffering from falls, shortness of breath, heart attacks, and a huge increase in diabetic issues all as a direct result of poor eating and weight issues. This issue is now effecting a whole new generation … our kids. Read More→
I’ve recently joined the ranks of an outstanding direct sales/network marketing company, after some serious due diligence, I might add.
The skeptics among you are silently screaming..”what are you thinking, they’re all scams!” I must confess…I’ve been in the network marketing industry on and off for more than 15 years and while some companies have had integrity problems, the business model is more than 100 years old and in fact is something that you’ve also been participating in, week in and week out, whether you know it or not.
When I begin to talk to someone about the business the most common reply is “it’s one of those pyramid schemes…leave me out”. There is a very fundamental difference between network marketing and a pyramid scheme…a huge difference and if you don’t understand them you’re staying away from something that could make you a lot of money and give you great time freedom. Read More→
Everyone in the world has exactly the same numbers to work with, 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week and 8,736 hours in a year.
Interestingly that even though we all start out on equal footing, a few will use their time in ways that advance their careers, improve their personal relationships, improve their health and increase their overall level of success. Yet others will stagnate and complain, distance themselves from others, only communicate via Facebook® and texting, gain a few pounds eating cheese puffs in their pajamas in front of the television, get to the next level of some video game and ultimately fall farther behind the forward moving pack.
Why is that? Read More→
How many of you watched the video of the lady walking through the mall, texting and walking right into the fountain a few weeks ago? The big, 40 by 40 foot fountain, right in the MIDDLE of a mall? We all laughed right, could never happen to us…no, not us.
Technology is great, but looking around at my own life as well as observing others I’ve realized that we are beginning to be controlled by technology rather than using it to make life easier. As an example, I watched a colleague the other day who was working hard on a website project. Every time his iPhone® buzzed with a new email, text or update he, like Pavlov’s dog, stopped working, read the message, answered the message and then tried to get back to work only to be disturbed again in 30 seconds by the reply or rebuttle. He got virtually nothing done in 30 minutes.
Take this test for fun or the shock value… Read More→
I originally wrote this update about 10 days ago while on the balcony of my cabin aboard the Celebrity cruise ship Constellation sailing wistfully about the Caribbean enroute from Tobago to Aruba.
This cruise was two weeks long, I checked email twice, sent a total of of four emails, only two were business related and I called no one.
When I returned, my businesses were still there, money had been made, bills and payroll had been taken care of and for the first week or so all I heard from others was “it must be nice” and how jealous they are that I could do that. Of course that was followed by a myriad of excuses why they can’t. My answer…b.s.!!!! If you are a business owner, or you want to be,…you can and you should take time away from your business and if you don’t then you have a job, you don’t have a business. Read More→
