Chances are if you run a business, there are some things occurring in your business that aren’t working for you.  Things that you wished were different. Whether it’s the amount of time you are spending working, or a difficult employee.  Maybe it’s an overwhelming feeling of being unsure where the business is going, or how to motivate your employees to give their fullest effort.  Whatever it may be there is one thing that is certain…if you want it to change, then someone or something has to change. We love change, right?  Especially when someone else changes, I am all for that! If that employee would change his attitude, there would be so much less stress here.  If the economy would just improve, we would be thriving.  If my team would be more productive, I could spend more time at home enjoying my family. How many times have you caught yourself saying those things? So if it’s not about the other person changing, then what does that leave?  It’s a no brainer, … [Read more...]

I have just taken up an exercise class called “Jazzercise”.  And if you know anything about “Jazzercise” then you know it can be incredibly challenging, depending on the instructor you gravitate towards.  Even for a former professional dance, I find myself very challenged in this class, especially the classes taught by Marla.  Marla is not just any ordinary instructor, she is a super human.  With the kind of body that you’d die for and her energy is beyond what I have ever mustered up on my best day.  She’s the bomb! Her class is by far the toughest that I have encountered, and that’s precisely the reason that I take it. In a recent class I was observing all the different levels of physical conditions of all of the participants, and for the most part, in the 40 or so attendees, I do a pretty good job of keeping up, given my lifetime of dance lessons.  Now, I don‘t say that to toot my own horn, I am saying it to make a point…why on earth would anyone put … [Read more...]