Posted by Rich on 10/1/07 in Featured
We will share information and discussions on various MasterMind groups and Best Practices.
A MasterMind group consists of participation among members by brainstorming new possibilities. The group’s members help and support each other with honest feedback and playing the devil’s advocate. Best Practices assert the best techniques, methods, and procedures for accomplishing tasks.
Posted by MAGR on 06/28/09 in Technology
Technology is great. It allows us to do many things more efficiently. It offers us new methods of completing old tasks. It keeps life interesting. However, new technology isn’t always the best tool for a job. Some people fail to realize this. They let new technology replace things that shouldn’t be replaced. This is particularly true in businesses.
Some of the things that you should avoid letting technology replace if you run a business include:
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t use technology. Use the Internet and GPS and online marketing tools. Just use them as a supplement to your other tools rather than as a replacement for them.
Posted by meetNgrow on 06/27/09 in General
I’m so glad it’s the weekend, because I have so much I need to do. It’s so hard to get things done during the week sometimes, because my husband and I share a car and he needs it during the week to go back and forth from work. If I get up in the morning I can drive him and keep the car, but since I work from home and don’t have to get up that early it’s sometimes difficult to do!
Anyway, top of my list is getting out to the barn — both days, if possible — to ride my horse. We’ve had a lot of rain lately, which has curtailed my visits a little bit. Then this evening, after I’d already made other plans, the rain cleared up and I felt guilty every time I saw how gorgeous and sunny it was.
The other thing I really need to do is finish shopping for my bridesmaid outfit for my friend’s wedding in August. I have to pick up my dress, which came in a while ago, and I need to find shoes to go with it. A few months ago my friend found her dress, veil, and wedding tiara, so that’s all done — I just need to find my dress.
I also need to decide whether I’m going to have her hair stylist do my hair for the wedding, and if so, how I’ll have her do it. I probably ought to have her do a practice run, but I definitely won’t have time this weekend, so perhaps next weekend!
It’s a pity weekends are only two days long. It seems I always have way more than two days’ worth of stuff to do by the time Friday evening rolls around!
Posted by meetNgrow on 06/25/09 in General
I spent yesterday, and will be spending most of today, with my 16-year-old nephew. He’s told me several times that I’m a cool aunt. Wow! High compliments, coming from a teenager.
Does this mean I let him do anything he wants? No, definitely not. But I think the key to being thought of as fun by a teenager is balancing the discipline with fun stuff that a teenager can appreciate.
So yesterday we went to the local amusement park, and spent the day there riding the roller coasters. It was tons of fun, but there were also teaching moments, too — such as when I told him he had to decide between ice cream and playing an arcade game. He had five bucks in his pocket and couldn’t do both, so I just reminded him of that. He chose the arcade game, and then was disappointed when he didn’t win anything and remembered he now could not get ice cream either.
Other fun things you can do with teens to retain your “cool” status are things such as dressing up for Halloween with them — I know plus size adult costumes are harder to find than kid costumes, but check online. At the very least, you can pick up a black wig at a local costume store and put together a witch outfit out of thrift store clothing.
You should also play with your kids whenever possible if they are into sports. My brother-in-law stays cool by playing video games with my nephew, and while I’m not a big fan of video games, as long as you still enforce some limits, playing with your kids can be a great way to bond doing something they like to do.
Posted by GrowR on 06/19/09 in Shopping
So, I’m on my way to a business networking meeting this morning, and as I’m walking out the door, brief case, coat, and hat in hand, my wife tells me that we need to get new pet beds for the dogs. “Uhm, okay,” is pretty much all I can muster, wondering why she picked that moment to share this with me.
After the early morning breakfast meeting, I’m settling into my office and decided that first thing, I’d do a search online and see what sort of clever information I might find in dealing with my wife and our pet’s needs.
Given that I am much more partial to cats, it was no huge surprise that I was suddenly at a website that had bunches of really fancy cat furniture. Now, I had to be careful and be sure that I was going to not make my wife upset, so the very first thing I did was to ensure that her precious doggies had brand new beds to sleep on.
After that, however, and before I actually submitted my order for delivery, I started poking around all the cat condo pages. I figured it would be a real shocker when they delivered a giant piece of cat furniture to the front door. Wish I could be home to see the look on her face when it all gets there!
Posted by meetNgrow on 06/17/09 in Health
You’ve probably heard the saying “Bald is beautiful.” Unfortunately not everyone feels that way. A great many men with hair loss don’t feel that way at all, actually. Hair is more important to a man than one might think, and therefore find that your hair is thinning and your hairline is receding can be extremely demoralizing for many men.
That is, of course, why so many men try so hard to hide it when they are beginning to lose their hair. The comb-over is frequently made fun of and criticized, but in truth many men resort to it because they don’t know what else to do, and admitting that they are balding just isn’t an option in their minds.
Luckily, these days there are much better ways to disguise a problem with baldness: hair replacement. There are different hair replacement systems, but usually the surgeon takes hair follicles from other, healthier parts of your head and moves them to the areas where you need them. The result is hair replacement that uses your own hair follicles, rather than someone else’s, for a much more natural look.
Of course, not every man is all that concerned about going bald. Some guys just shave their heads and call it good. But if you like having hair and are self-conscious about it thinning or your hairline receding, then it should be comforting that there are better solutions than becoming the guy with the dorky comb-over.
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