I want to keep this short and to the point in hopes that it will sink in. I’m going to tell you something that is truly hard to believe! The sad truth is the fact that very few people will read this message for the following reasons.
- Those who should be reading this will never see these words for the simple reason that it takes action to do so.
- Those not included above are too busy making things happen to take the time to read this. Thankfully, this group doesn’t need to hear this message because they’re living it.
There are those in today’s business world who take great pride and joy in the fact that they can call themselves a CEO, President, V.P., Supervisor, etc. These people are sitting comfortably at their desks waiting for the phone to ring or a knock on the door bringing in much-needed business to survive this much publicized recession. Those people will not survive the recession.
The next few quotes support the message that you must take action if you want to see results. Heaven help those sitting at their desk waiting for the phone to ring! Do something!
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” ~Â Karen Lamb
- “The key to getting ahead is getting started.” ~ Agatha Christie
- “ACTION is the foundational key to all success.” ~Â Picasso
- “We have a strategic ‘plan.’ It’s called doing something.” ~ Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines
- “This is so simple it sounds stupid, but it is amazing how few oil people really understand that YOU ONLY FIND OIL IF YOU DRILL WELLS! You may think you’re finding it when you’re drawing maps and studying logs but you have to drill!” ~ John Masters, Canadian wildcatter, from his book, The Hunters.
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On tonight’s national news, two emerging stories struck me as being unbelievably ironic. They obviously reflect the chaotic nature of our current environment across this country. I’ll avoid sharing my opinion and allow you to draw your own conclusions. However, I would ask you to do one thing … look and listen through naive eyes and ears as though you just arrived on our shores and knew nothing of our culture or current challenges. What conclusions would you come to?
Sacramento city officials announced yesterday that the famous tent city would be cleared out by the end of April. The evacuation is necessary, an official reports, because the tents are pitched on land owned by a utility company that plans to develop the site. Can you imagine being evicted from a tent city? What’s next? By the way, tent cities are springing up all over the U.S., and they won’t be hard to fill. More than 651,000 people lost their jobs LAST MONTH, and experts are predicting as many as 1.5 million MORE Americans will lose their homes to foreclosures this year.
Sharing this particular news story isn’t meant to place blame on either the company chairmen nor the countess. I’m sure they’ve both worked hard for what they’ve earned. It just makes one wonder if a small portion of that $53,800 PER WEEK might buy a better grade of canvas for some of those homes in tent city … not that these two particular people are obligated to do so.
In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.
Listen to the input.
They seem to appear faster than I can deal with them. Maybe it’s the times. Today’s chaotic existence seems to be filled with more and more obvious questions every day, and no one, at any level, seems to have any answers. Every attempt to find answers appears to result in even more questions.
Discuss the days when downtown was the happening place to be. I live not far from the capital city of our state, and I can vividly remember how busy and vibrant the crowded streets were at any given time. Eight downtown theaters and two bowling alleys provided entertainment day and night. Today, they’re all gone. Sears, J.C. Penney, Montgomery Wards, S.S. Kresge, F.W. Woolworth, W.T. Grant, Cunningham Drugs, Ben Franklin and many more lined the cobblestone streets. Today, not one of those gems has survived the ravage assault of that treasured landscape. Twenty-one restaurants (without bars) were always packed. Today, we have nine bars which happen to serve food. What happened?
Some have chosen to add pedestrian walkways, outdoor dining, and even residential units to those retailers who are still operating under the hope that the market will return. Colleges, churches, bowling alleys and even museums have all found their way into the mall community. Look for insurance companies, law offices, doctors, dentists, financial institutions, tattoo artists, hair stylists, photographers, day care, and auto repair shops to fill the ever-increasing vacancies. Batting cages, amusement rides, and paint ball battlegrounds have invaded some mall sites. There have even been reports of hospitals, funeral homes, and car dealers taking advantage of the reduced real estate opportunities.
One might be tempted to think that RyanAir is prepared to plumb any depth to make a fast buck and is constantly putting profit before the comfort of its customers. Just when you think they’ve reached rock bottom, they come up with another idea which leaves you asking yourself: “What Were They Thinking?”
Let’s start with those maddening little labels glued on every piece of fruit in the supermarket. There’s got to be a better way. As it is now, you either end up eating the labels or destroying the piece of fruit by trying to surgically remove them before feasting. After every battle with a sticker, I feel like returning the piece of fruit to the supermarket—through the plate glass front window of the store.
And finally … lotteries need to go. A lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. It’s a huge tax—people sink about $40 billion a year into state lotteries and $345 billion into all forms of legal gambling. A good number of those who buy lottery tickets and travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, etc. are for the most part those who don’t have the money to waste. Only a very small fraction of what they lose comes back to them in funds for schools as promised. A direct tax would hit all income levels more fairly, would actually channel more to the schools at less expense to the taxpayers, and might even help educate people to understand their chances of winning a lottery are actually about a trillion to 1!
This is our third installment in a series of articles sharing creative company names and signs. Traveling cross country can provide you with an idea of just how creative people can be as they strive to produce names that will catch the eyes of customers in hopes they’ll pause to investigate, like what they find, and hopefully past the word on to others.
SHEAR PERFECTION (salon)
THAIPHOON (Thai food)