And now, a peak behind the curtain at what's going on in retail: The biggest "controllable" expense in retail is often the employees who work in the stores. You "control" that expense by how you schedule those employees. Much of retail scheduling is predictable: at the most basic level, you know you need to have …
Do you sometimes feel like there’s more to the story than you’re getting? As I mentioned, I recently re-watched The Hobbit movie. There’s a scene in volume 1, right at the tail end of the Gollum scene, where Bilbo is scrambling for his life, and he tries to squeeze through a crack in the wall …
I don’t know about you, but I have become very aware recently of how thirsty cats do not like to drink stale water. They can be as finicky as the little girl in the movie, Signs, who pours herself – or has her father pour her – glasses of water, takes a sip, puts them …
I love how my sister decorates her Christmas Tree. My tree – when I have one, which I haven’t recently thanks to destructo-cat and the perception amongst relatives that since we don’t have children, we don’t deserve to host Christmas, or maybe it’s because the last Christmas we hosted was a disaster that ended with …
Do you find yourself tempted by those self-assessments on the internet? The ones that encourage you to take inventory of your life, your strengths, what’s holding you back, and promise to provide direction? I am inevitably suckered in by these assessments. I faithfully copy them into Word, and spend hours completing them, getting more and …
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