Dear World, I need a Mini-Me/Assistant/Jr.-Lifer, and this is officially opening the search for the position. There will be unrealistic expectations, low pay, high risk, with ridiculous hours. I'm betting on the upside kind of thinker who is...
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Stay Cool and Save Energy Throughout the Summer
Homeowners can save as much as 20 percent in energy costs by adopting a few quick and easy practices, a Purdue University professor says. One of the top ways to save energy is to make sure air-conditioning equipment is well-maintained, says William...
What Specific Traits Make People Nice To Work With?
It is incredibly easy, and quite fun at times, to get all wound up about people that are an absolute pain in the rear to interact with in your working life. Maybe they are small minded, argumentative, inflexible, ignorant, slow moving, grouchy,...
Supporting Lakeshore Public Television and Radio is Important for Northwest Indiana
Northwest Indiana: if you and your family enjoy Lakeshore Public Television and the great programming that comes with it, you should actually support the network through membership, sponsorship, auctions, and helping them spread the word about the...
Timberseal: Bringing New Life to Worn Deck- Awesome Job
Once spring finally decided to roll around this year, it allowed me and my family to get outside and enjoy the weather, work outside a bit, and do some general maintenance on our house and yard. As I started to work outside, I looked around and...
Help Me, Help You
There is a great scene in the Tom Cruise movie where he passionately tells Cuba Gooding Jr (I swear I am not talking about this clip because he has good in his name – that is just awesome good luck), to Help Me, Help You. It is a funny and...
Start Doing a Bunch of New Things That Have Been Proven to Work
Focused on new ideas and actions, this principle usually holds the most promise for additional opportunity no matter the age, position, or size of the company. However, the principle is listed after the first two articles in this series: Drop What...
Drop what isn’t working like a bad habit
As a punishment from the gods for his trickery, Sisyphus was compelled to roll a huge rock up a steep hill, but before he could reach the top of the hill, the rock would always roll back down, forcing him to begin again. Don’t be that guy....
Are Positive Political Campaign Ads Just a Crazy Idea?
Are positive political campaign ads just a crazy idea?Like anything in life, you can choose to view whatever you face as a negative or a positive, and anyone that knows me knows I am a bit nuts about looking at most anything as an opportunity. ...
CHANGE – Embrace it, Shape It, or Get The Heck Out of The Way
CHANGE – Embrace it, Shape It, or Get The Heck Out of The Way If you look up quotes related to the word change, you could be reading for days. There are actually 92,700,000 examples or sites that that you can link to when you search Google for...