There is a well known philosophy around time management that uses the analogy of filling up a beach bucket–it goes something like this:
Image by Susie Underwood via FlickrSecond, the smaller rocks and pebbles
First, put in the large big rocks
Second, the smaller rocks and pebbles
Then the sand
And finally, fill up the rest of the bucket with [...]
So recently I came across this blog post on customer service that said:
Make it easy for your people to serve customers…Instead, be the Ritz-Carlton. Each employee is given an individual, daily budget to create a wow experience for a customer, or for “service recovery.” (That’s to fix, or even over-fix, an error or problem for [...]
Most productivity blogs, books, seminars that I have encountered recommend getting up earlier as a means to getting more done each day.
In the past I have always been a bit of a night owl (I hate waking up and can hardly be described as a morning person) but I have discovered that working out and [...]
So normally a sale, is a sale, is a sale. But the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale is one of the special ones. Why? Well, because instead of putting the
old merchandise that didn’t sell, they put the fall stuff on the racks at a discount, and then in 2 weeks when the sale is over, that fall [...]
Everyone has a few areas where they need to improve. Most people (the learners anyway) who continue to look for ways to improve will find that these areas change over time. At times it will be things like communication, other times it may be knowledge or trade skills, and all the while you keep improving [...]
So I haven’t been updating recently. There are lots of reasons for this–work is busy, been trying to focus on diet/working out more (which takes time), cooking more, cleaning more, reading more, and of course planning!
Well I have decided that I am going to relaunch my little website to be kind of my “personal portal” [...]
Wow, I have been so busy.
It seems lately I have been keeping myself occupied and haven’t had any chance to post anything recently. So let’s see what have I been up to recently?
Took a trip to NYC. We spent about 7 days there and even though I had to work during the weekdays it felt [...]
….is that you can’t say what you really think.
You see I have lots of opinions–thoughts that would probably be fascinating to read–but even though this is my blog I feel like posting those thoughts would have such bad unintended consequences that I don’t dare do it.
For example (and these are random examples pulled off the [...]
Tonight I had to swing by the pharmacy to pick up a prescription, there was a problem with the insurance so I had to sit for 25 minutes to wait for it to be corrected. It seemed like a regular Tuesday night, and I spent about 10 minutes meandering around the store, decided I didn’t [...]
Ladies, the next time you are on a date don a red ensemble. Based on a study done at the University of Rochester men are more attracted to women wearing the color red. Men tend to percieve women in this color to be more desirable of more sexually attractive.
I don’t own anything in red except [...]
