Doing Nothing
What could be a worse use of time than doing nothing? The answer? Doing something that is really nothing. The person who is doing nothing generally realizes they are doing …
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Excuse Yourself
From time to time we all find ourselves in situations we wish we could escape because they are a waste our time. Perhaps its a social function or a committee …
Excuse Yourself Read More Magazine Subscriptions
The Library of Congress in Washington DC subscribes to 70,000 newspapers and magazines. That’s a lot of periodicals. And I’m sure they have a good reason for those subscriptions since …
Magazine Subscriptions Read More Things That Don’t Work -3
How often have you had a project turn out wrong and said, “Oh I knew that wouldn’t work!”? Well, if you knew it wouldn’t work, why did you do it? …
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Don Aslett, in his book, How to Handle 1,000 Things at Once, gives the following humorous but true list of things that don’t work: Exchanging rent for help around the …
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It’s amazing how often we continue doing things that don’t work. Professional organizer Don Aslett has compiled a list of things that don’t work. They include: Telling yourself you’ll remember …
Things That Don’t Work Read More Drive Thru Bank Robber
A robber entered a Bank of America in San Francisco and wrote a stick-up note on a deposit slip. But, fearing someone may have seen him write the note, he …
Drive Thru Bank Robber Read More Oughtness
One of the dangers of doing a project that really shouldn’t be done is that once started, projects tend to take on a life of their own. Someone observed that …
Oughtness Read More Praying for Help
Would you like to get more done in less time? Of course you would. If you’re like me you’re always looking for ways to get greater results from the work …
Praying for Help Read More Mona Lisa Easily Stolen
On August 20, 1911 a penniless house painter hid in an obscure room at the Louvre art museum in Paris. The next morning when the museum was closed he slipped …
Mona Lisa Easily Stolen Read More Mark’s Gospel on Time
The Gospel of Mark gives us our most compact look at the life of Jesus. In 16 chapters we are given a fast-paced summary of the key events in our …
Mark’s Gospel on Time Read More Key Result Areas
What are your key result areas? In other words, what are the things that, if you do them well, can bring exceptional results? This is a key concept to understand …
Key Result Areas Read More Wasting Other People’s Time
Have you ever noticed that whenever someone is in front of you in the “10 items or less” checkout line at the grocery store, and they have 20 items, they …
Wasting Other People’s Time Read More “Human Fly” Tragedy
Several years a so-called “human fly” attempted to scale the side of a Los Angeles skyscraper. As onlookers gathered, he slowly made his way to the top, grabbing onto ledges …
“Human Fly” Tragedy Read More Government Functions
I recently came across a news article that quoted US Government statistics showing average per capita spending on artificial hair is 9 cents. When I saw that, my first thought …
Government Functions Read More The TV is My Shepherd
Child training experts Michael & Debbie Pearl wrote the following poem called channel 23: The TV is my shepherd, I shall not want anything else. It maketh me to lie …
The TV is My Shepherd Read More Teaching Children to Converse
A student helicopter pilot took his first solo flight. All was going well until he reached 2000 feet when suddenly he took a dive and crashed. As the instructor pulled …
Teaching Children to Converse Read More Micky Mouse Counterfeit
Have you ever seen a counterfeit $20 bill that was pink and had Mickey Mouse’s picture on it? Of course not. Counterfeiters want to make their product look as much …
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A 21 year old man walked up to two police officers in a squad car who were showing their felon-identification computer to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked …
Curious Felon Read More Dead Birds Don’t Fly
Two men were walking down the street when one of them said, “Look. There’s a dead bird.” The other one looked up in the sky and said, “Where, I don’t …
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