Food for Thought


  • The best definition of integrity: Doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

  • Work is like a rock, paper, scissors game. There is no long-term winning play. You have to keep reinventing yourself just to stay employed.

  • Be thankful for every success, and learn from your failures.

  • You create your future with every decision you make or decide not to make.

  • Your money, or lack of it, only shows how much attention you have put on creating an exchange for what you produce.

    Figure out the exchange, then produce what is wanted.


  • The glass of life is neither half full or half empty. It is what you make of it, so don't claim that your glass is empty and has a dead bug in it.

  • Change someone's life. Encourage them to start a blog.

  • Secondhand opinions are not facts.

    Check the original source and be sure.

  • Keep your options open.
    One decision and you can change your life.
    It's that easy.

  • You cannot waste your working life waiting for your boss to become an enlightened manager.

  • You are the only one who can change your life.

    You must accept that responsibility to achieve freedom.

  • Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is looking.

    It is no more complicated than that.

  • Success comes from good service delivered with warmth and grace.

    Easy to say - hard to accomplish, especially if you are insufficiently trained.

  • Good managers are few and far between.

    Let them know how much you appreciate them.

  • WHINING:
    a dead giveaway that the person doing the whining has not taken responsibility for his or her actions.


  • Happiness comes to those who manage their lives well

    Your emotional well-being is priceless.

    Don't throw it away for mere money


  • You are

    far more capable than

    you let yourself believe.


  • We need to learn from

    the past, not live in it.


  • Every blogger who writes

    a post about a buying

    experience helps create a

    database that can change

    the future of commerce.


  • Your money, or lack of it,

    only shows how much

    attention you have put on

    creating an exchange for

    what you produce.

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Danger Quicksand - Have A Nice Day presents accurate descriptions of emotionally destructive workplaces, and discusses appropriate handlings for each situation presented. There is a sane solution for any work situation, but you have to know what you are dealing with first.

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The payoff comes when you realize that what happened was not your fault, you are not alone, and that there is a brighter future ahead if you can put this behind you.

The underlying message is that there is great hope for your future, but you must be willing to take a hard look at the grim realities of your job situation first.

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