Category: Tips & Opinions

Customer Service / Sales Tip:  Every time you talk to a potential client, ask for the correct spelling of their name, their phone number and email address, and best time to connect with them so that you can email them promotions, keep in contact and start establishing your relationship.  Not everyone will be forthcoming, but […]

Challenge – do a grateful or more commonly known gratitude journal for one month. Think of 1-3 items per day that you are grateful for and see if you feel different at the end of it.  Something that I do in my grateful journal is include 3 items per day – something that I was […]

Organization Tip:  We waste a lot of time in a day looking for items:  keys, tools, glasses, phone, etc.  Create a “home” for each item that makes sense and then be sure to use that “home”.  Then when you are looking for it, you know exactly where it should be! The “home” for each item […]

Opportunity is just around the corner, if you choose to believe it and have your heart, mind and eyes open to recognize and receive it! I know from experience that it doesn’t always feel like it is. Sometimes or even most times, it tends to feel out of reach. However, it is usually our perception, […]

Life as a tree – it takes root – some are shallow, some are deep; it branches out in different directions – some just reach for the sky, some twist and turn all over the place, some have many branches, some have very few branches; some are short, some are tall; some are skinny and […]

Human Resources Tip:  Are you doing regular RR&E’s (Roles, Responsibilities & Expectations) with your staff?  As things change and evolve it is necessary to make sure you have the right people in the right roles.  One way to capture this is by doing annual RR&E’s for your employees.  The best and most successful way I […]

Are you in control of your life or does life seem to be controlling you? Are you in a perpetual motion of life passing you by and you seem a little out of control?  Only you have the power to change that! If you are looking for ways to take back your life, and put […]

Information Technology Tip:  Do you have a backup solution?  Most people do not think of this as a necessary product or expense but it truly is – think of the hours of work that have gone into creating what you currently have and what it would mean to you if one day you turned on […]

We take better care of our vehicles than we do ourselves.  We keep up on the maintenance, regular oil changes, etc.  We take our bodies and mind for granted. We have such high expectations regarding our bodies and minds. We expect them to run great everyday – at times or with regular lack of rest and […]

Why do we feel it necessary to judge others and what they are doing with their lives?  We should have no control over what they do, so why do we feel it is important to share our thoughts with them?  It’s time we started looking in the mirror and focusing on our lives and what […]

Time Management Tip:  We all have a lot to accomplish in a day, a week, etc.  When you focus on too many things at once, nothing seems to get accomplished.  Mark down your top 3 things for the day and try your best to accomplish those.  At the end of each day, cross off the […]