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Attention Shoppers!

October 2, 2009

This will be quick: Pink Parade miniature roses to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. In DFW, currently at Tom Thumb. (Even on sale. Wow.) Your local provider may vary, but it never hurts to help. Go look and give your karma and your yard a boost!

“And then I decided it didn’t matter…”

August 20, 2009

I hear a lot of people whine about lack of time, and I have a lot of people ask me about getting things done. I recall an office mate once saying to me, “Whenever I come into your office, nothing seems to be happening, yet everything always seems to get done.” Now, over the years, [...]

The “A” List Is All That Matters

August 10, 2009

I think I got a personal telegram from God this weekend. It read: “Mike, get on with it!” The source of the reminder was a couple of phone calls. One on Saturday informed me that the husband of a new distributor in my organization had just dropped dead at the age of 53. This morning I received a [...]

Why Plan B is so important

July 21, 2009

Yesterday I read the following in the New York Times article titled “Americans Worried About Flu’s Impact on Finances“: …while most adults are not overly concerned about their own health or that of their families, they are worried about the financial hit they will take if illness or school closings keep them home from work, [...]

Useful Distinction: “Making” versus “Made” It

July 14, 2009

As I was poking about to check for water requirements at mid-day, I spied something just under the mulch in one of the front beds: a single leaf of a Gerbera daisy that we had taken for dead. Even though I know it’s only a single plant, when we take it into our environment, make the [...]