After posting last week’s blog post, I realized I have more I want to say about effort versus results. Or more accurately, about process versus results. I heard a saying one time, it went along the lines of: “A sub-par team will produce sub-par results no matter what process is used. Conversely, a good team […]
After the last two blog posts, I have yet a third moving story. After the house was all packed and everything moved out, came the fun part…cleaning the entire house top to bottom. One particular task I performed was cleaning all the baseboards. So I did one or two rooms, using spray cleaner and rags, […]
OK, I have another moving story. We ended up getting two moving containers because we knew that we probably had too much stuff for one container. But we knew that there was probably not enough stuff to have to worry about cramming both containers completely full. There was going to be plenty of slack space […]
So I have been packing and preparing to move (which may be why I have been remiss in posting lately). This involves packing a lot of boxes, and then moving said boxes into moving trucks (or more accurately, in my case moving-truck-sized shipping containers sitting on my driveway). I spent a recent Saturday packing a […]
One of my first jobs was working at a pizza restaurant. There are many little tips and tricks you’ll learn over time at any job, and here’s an important one I learned when cooking pizza. As we would pull the pizza pans from the oven and transfer the pizza onto a cutting board, the pans […]
You know the old saying, “It’s not the act of doing something hard, it’s getting started.”? And once you get started it’s not that bad. I know that is true with me. If I have a task I need to do, like wash the car or mow the lawn or run on the treadmill, what […]
I’ll be honest, I had to force myself to write this blog post today. But I already skipped writing for almost two weeks, and I told myself that I could not have another sandwich today until I wrote and posted a blog post. And I have to learn to be disciplined and keep my promises […]
I heard about a personal chef the other day, who provides a prepared meal delivery service for a clientele. They had observed that their goal was not to grow their business and branch out, but instead to stay with their passion for artisanal cooking. When I heard this, it reminded me of the story in […]
In most places I’ve worked, there’s always those two or three people that are superstars, that seem to know everything and get everything done. As a result, those people also tend to be the most overworked. And at these places, it seems like management always makes the same joke, “We need to figure out how […]
In an earlier blog post, I was talking about the importance of jobs that may not seem, at first, to be important. As I write blog posts, I am frequently fraught with paralysis at coming up with ideas and publishing. One of the root causes is that I want every post to be some groundbreaking, […]
