James Breakwell, comedy writer and author of the famous book Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, tweeted this the other day. Me: Find your shoes. 4-year-old: They’re gone forever. Me: Where did you look? 4: Nowhere. Good start. After I stopped laughing because if you’ve ever had kids
Eight months ago during our first session, my personal trainer, Jeremy, told me to go grab a pair of ridiculously light dumbbells. My first thought was who does this guy think I am, a ten-year-old girl??? Yesterday, he asked me to pick up a light weight (which would have been a hefty one for me
I recently read a post in a financial group asking about how to avoid finance charges from overdrafts. The OP was pissed off at his bank because he keeps getting overdraft fees even though he thought he had opted out of them. I watched in amazement as the comments came pouring in one after another
Have you ever noticed that people tend to hang out with others just like them? When we were back in high school, there were little cliques everywhere. The jocks, the nerds, the cheerleaders, the “in” crowd, and the druggies. Even if someone wasn’t like the group when they first joined, within months of hanging around
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras poured through the data and asked: “What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?” Have you ever wondered why some companies stand the test of time and thrive while others flounder? This month’s book of the
Regardless of how encouraging everyone around us may be, we have all received that response. You know what I’m talking about–the one that says something like: Thank you for your submission/proposal/resume, but It doesn’t quite match our criteria at this time We don’t think we can give it the type of support it needs We
