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We’re a culture that likes to take pills. Not necessarily as some form of recreation but as a fix for what ails us. I dont know what your experience has been with healthcare but most of the doctors I’ve had over the years tend to want to prescribe you a drug rather than dig down into the causes of something and discuss nutrition and lifestyle changes as a fix. That way takes time. Pills don’t. Do you think business is any different? Continue reading
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Mark Twain
I think I’ve mentioned my love of Mark Twain once or twice in this space previously. One of the topics upon which Twain commented was the weather. His most famous quote (which may not actually have been written by him) was that “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” Well, I’m not sure we can do much about the weather (we’ll save the climate change discussion for another day) but we can use it for a quick thought about business. Continue reading
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Mondays are always interesting. I’d find I could gauge how interesting they were going to be based on the response I got when I asked “how was your weekend.” It was a pretty direct correlation – the more interesting the weekend, the more difficult Monday was going to be. I think it was kind of like starting a car after it had been in the garage for a while. Your work brain was put to bed for a couple of days and starting it back up was harder if you’d really managed to enjoy yourself extensively.
Fridays used to be interesting as well, especially late Friday afternoons. We had a running joke that anything bad that was going to happen during a week began right after 3p on a Friday. Which of course made Monday all the more interesting. The point? Continue reading
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