That is how my day started: crash! I woke, groggy from lack of sleep, driven out of bed by the sound of the 7 a.m. pounding that greets my weekday mornings now – two massive pile-drivers, pounding away at the bedrock at the end of the block, chipping away a hole for a new foundation …
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 …
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 …
For some reason when I woke up this morning, I was thinking of the King of Rohan. For those of you only familiar with the movie of The Lord of the Rings, cast your minds back to the scene where Gandalf enters a darkened hall and finds a King huddled on his throne, weighed down …
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