Passion and position go hand in hand

Loving what you do is much more important than what you do...Years ago I recall seeing a magazine ad. It was a picture of a man in a boat on a lake with a fishing rod and the caption was finding what you love is success...interesting thought.

Life's little moments and finding success is important. Success is not just financial but also success with relationships in your life. Being able to give back to your community or church is success. Being able to lend a hand to someone in need and there's a whole lot of that out there.

Summer is coming

One of the summer activities I dread is watching people drive to the little lake in the neighborhood, park their car and leave the AC running...I realize it is a free counry but can we please leave the car off and the AC off...why are you at the lake?
It saddens me when I know gasoline prices are up and yet there are people who will run the motor to stay cool...this happens everyday! One couple with their black Mercedezs does this summer and winter. Why don't to go home and use the furnace or air conditioner there in your home?

Just because we have the money can we not protect the environment instead? Leave the place a little cleaner for those exercising all around the lake. Can you see the runners, walkers, babies and all the people that need to breath clean air?

vehicles, exercise and courtesy

What do these three things have in common? Well pulling my car into a parking space at the gym this morning the only one open was between a truck and a SUV. The problem was the SUV was HUGE and the person driving the SUV had not parked straight into the parking slot. This has something to do with courtesy.

Being so close to the other car is not in my comfort zone. Yesterday while returning from the gym a car almost hit us (hubby was driving) because the driver was not within the lines of the lane. The frequency with which these types of incidences occur is scary.

So people are being rude to the point of danger, they drive huge vehicles and and they are not exercising good judgement on the road...this is not a new subject but it just truly is concerning when human life is at stake...

A few things learned in corporate America

3 things I learned in the 20 plus years of a career in corporate America:

1) People do not communicate well
2) People do not solve their own problems
3) Expectations are high, actions are low

Communication occurs and sounds like one's voice...we all want to be heard but do we really have much to say? No, we don't!
People are rarely objective about problem resolution, we often ignore our own issues, and we all have issues! We're people.
Most want to chat, grumble, compliant, few want to solve and move on...as Richard Clark said in CEO Speaks, Sage Advice During Turbulent Times...people to not have a sense of urgency.

Green Chatter errors

As a professional I really do not like to make mistakes but alas we all do...the last blog I noticed I did not puralize a word...big difference in the way it reads!

The last of the big news!! Checking spelling does not do it sometimes because spell check is not going to pick that up! Maybe technology will improve to the point of "reading" content...that will put the proof readers out of work!

I need all the help I can get...because I am human and I do make mistakes.

plastic bottles

Recently while hubby was watching a ball game or something on the tube there was a "commercial" of sorts...the voice said in 2010 we consumed product in enough bottle to go around the world 190 times! Does that include milk, soda, water, and all the other garbage we consume? Don't know but that is a lot of glass and plastic.

The real question is do we need to use that much plastic and glass...?

Water, paper and waste

It has been three years and three months since I purchased paper towels...habits can be broken and paper towels in our kitchen were a habit to use when draining bacon, sausage, ground beef etc. So now I save the grease (to be stored) until the city has recycle day in the spring. The city uses grease to make fuel as they do with wood. When the branched fall and they do fall it the wood is put on the street the city will pick it up, turn the wood into fuel.

I do not know the technology but the police cars run on ethanol as do all the city's vehicles. By not using paper towels it saves a little bit of water from being wasted, it saves a little bit of waste from the land fill, it saves a little bit of money...look up the story of the man throwing the star fish back in the ocean. It may not matter to the ones he can not throw back, but it matters to the ones he can throw back. Every little bit helps.