Messing about with empathy
Long-term goals can be, well, long term. It can be hard to maintain your momentum when the end is a long way off. Whether your goal is losing weight, earning a degree, running every day for a year, or something else, the way to stay strong is to celebrate the small milestones. I have run…
Said no one ever. Well, Grammar Girl probably said it some time, but the average person, even most writers, don’t like grammar. For most people, it brings back horrible memories of diagramming sentences in school (hopefully, they don’t teach that any more.) But grammar is important, and something that we should all learn because good…
Benjamin Franklin’s birthday was last Friday. I talked about some of his fun inventions on Friday’s podcast, and I won’t repeat that here. Instead, I want to expand one of his quotes. On Facebook, I saw several memes of the following quote. That is only the back half of that quote. I think the entire…
Happy Thanksgiving. As you prepare your stuffing and prep your turkey, before family and football, why not listen to a thought-provoking podcast? Seth Godin, an insightful person and a marketing guru, has a podcast called Akimbo. In this week’s episode, he talks about Thanksgiving traditions and the power of marketing. It was interesting to learn…