It happens to all of us. We get the idea in our head that we are going to get some work done. We are excited and ready to go, but then we get into our office and everything just isn’t right. Our workplace is cluttered, we can’t find anything, and we end up spending most…
If you’re like me, the list of things to do seems to get longer and longer, while the days get shorter and shorter. It feels like there just is not enough time to get everything done that I want to get done. Of course, I know that this is not true. In fact, the opposite…
The phrase, “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” means to get yourself out of a pickle, without outside help. It is often used in a semi-negative way, in the sense that a person is too prideful to ask for anyone’s help. However, when it applies to business, bootstrapping is often seen as a way of…
We all know that we SHOULD eat healthy. But the most common argument is that it is just too expensive. Instead, many people head to McDonald’s or some other fast food place, and they eat some of the worst “foods” on the planet (nutritionally speaking, I’m not saying that fries are not one of the…
There are two different ways of viewing the world. One could call it pessimism or optimism; glass-half-empty or half-full. Another way of looking at it is: are you an abundant thinker or a scarcity thinker? It is more than just looking at the positives and negatives of the situation; it is how you respond and…
Right around 50 years ago, wage disparity became illegal. As society moves forward in seeing that everyone is equal and that equal jobs should get equal pay, we should think that now, half a century later, we have come to that. The sad fact is that there is still a gender inequality in the workplace. …
Shortly after I was married in September of 2008, my wife asked if we could get a new washer and dryer set. And rightly so, the ones we were using weren’t even bought used, they were given to me. The set worked, but barely. Of course I wanted to do my research first, so I…