How To Stop Worrying

How many times have you worried about something today? Five? Ten? Too many times to count? You may not even be conscious of it, and it doesn’t have to involve...

How To Do Everything (Hint: You Can’t)

Want to do everything? You can’t! What? Were you expecting a quick primer that would affirm your belief that you can do it all, AND teach you how to stay...

Things Won’t Change (So You Think)

It is human nature to believe that the present won’t change much. This winter season of brutal cold (if you live in the Northeastern part of the US) is the...

The Maytag Guarantee

Maytag figured something out many, many decades back. If they put a guarantee on their dishwashers and showed an idle Maytag repairman on TV (if you don’t recall, he was...

The Immediate Response Economy

I received an email yesterday afternoon asking me if I had received the email that same person sent me that morning, since I hadn’t responded yet. The email was not...

The Eternal Quest For Work-Life Balance

I was just talking with Alan Fawcett about life, and work, and more life and more work. During our conversation Alan said something that hit me like a ton of...

You Can’t Be Friendly & Unfriendly

Banks like to advertise how friendly they are. Customer service comes first, last and in between. At least, so they say. Yet these “friendly” banks bury customers with small fees....

People Buy What They Try

If you are at a clothing store and you try on a jacket, you are more likely to buy it now. If you are at a food store and sample...

Announcement: The Children’s Literature Independently Published Principals’ Award

I am a sponsor of Children’s Literature Independently Published Principals’ Award (CLIPPA). I am a major believer in self-published authors, and am sharing this with you should you qualify as...

Great Websites

In Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely recounts a study of coffee drinkers. When coffee was served to test subjects in fanciful dishware, complemented with condiments in beautiful glass and metal containers,...

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