3/30/2010, Elementary & Middle School Years, Value System Set, My Aunts
Aunt Ida:
I’m not sure if my grandfather assigned my Aunt Ida the task of making sure I completed my homework and did well in school. Ida was his youngest daughter. Ida was a “warrior” type personality. Direct yet loving. There was [...]
Experts say that public speaking is the biggest fear for many people. To get up in front of an audience requires practice, experience and confidence. There have been many occasions where I was prepared… until I got in front of the audience. My thoughts were racing. My heart was pounding. And, I forget what to [...]
Judging from the title of this post you might think that I’m correlating a relationship between having a good business with a prerequisite of having a good education. That’s partially true, but that’s not what we’re going to discuss today; today I want to expand on the idea of educating your customers and clients on [...]
I learned early in life that loaning money to family and friends could ruin valuable relationships. It is not the best idea to loan money to friends and family if you do not have it to lose. I personally feel that the best thing to do is to give the person in need the money [...]
3/23/2010, The Elementary & Middle School Years, Lessons from My Grandfather
Ernest and I organized all our little league baseball and basketball games in the community. Ernest arranged for us to play teams from other communities and I would help recruit some of the local players. In our neighborhood, baseball was “King” so we always had [...]
I’ve been thinking about the status quo lately and how that relates to our inability to make decisions. There seems to be a correlation with us being average and the state of the current economy. We’re stuck in a country full of “averages”, average people living average lives, doing average things, eating average food (actually [...]
In the beginning of my 8th grade year my mother moved our family to Minnesota without her husband at the time. The man of our house was in prison, which wasn’t the first or last time that he was there. Minnesota was for the better in my mother’s eyes because she had more opportunities there [...]
3/16/2010,
Chicago, 1963
Grandfather left Arkansas and found work in a paper factory. He rented a small apartment on Chicago’s west side. He sent for us in 1963: Grandmother, my aunts Betty and Ida, and me. Houses and apartment buildings; jammed together. Constant street noise from traffic and the conversations of thousands of people. No chirping birds [...]
Spring forward, fall backward… Time has shifted forward an hour, and as a result, Sunday and Monday are the toughest day of the year for many people. Some coffee shops are offering free espresso shots to help adjust to the change. I prefer a free Red Bull from the gas station, but that’ll probably never, [...]
According to the reports and statistics from the media, we live in a recession and about 10.4% of Americans are unemployed. It’s not surprising when you think about, if I had to make a guess I would think that a majority of those unemployed Americans weren’t satisfied with their jobs to begin with. It was [...]
