Business and Life: Trends

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Two P.M.

Two p.m. is an inauspicious time.  No — there’s no halfway through, or halfway from.  Starting at noon or starting at 1:00, it makes no difference.  Two p.m. languishes in the same non-urgent, no-account hour as say, 9 a.m. Not much going on. “Hey, Marvin, can I have that report by 2 p.m.?” It doesn’t […]

One P.M.

Lunch hangs warm in your stomach. Your brain’s fogged. The afternoon looms and with luck, your To-Do list from the morning has some items that are crossed off, or checked. I prefer crossing off. How about you? As you face the afternoon list, you wonder if it’s prioritized correctly. There are three “A’s” two “B’s” […]

Four O’Clock in the Morning

There’s an arc of every day.  It’s part of the rhythm that does not bear toe-tapping, unless you pay obsessive attention to the music of time passing. Having just listened to Rives’  The Museum of Four in the Morning TED Talk, I now know this four-in-the-morning time of day has slipped into our consciousness through […]

March, April, and May

“It’s not what you think.” “Oh yeah? I saw you two together!” April sighed, put on her new spring coat, the shiny pink one with black polka dots and matching pink and black rain hat, and started for the door. May wouldn’t let her alone. “You and March were at the mall. I saw you.” […]

YES!

Just say yes. Yes to life. Yes to happiness. Yes to adventure.  Yes to experiments. Yes to yesterday. Yes to being outside. Yes to travel. Yes to solitude. Yes to crowds. Yes to humbleness. Giving. Gratitude.  Yes to meditation. Consciousness. Yes to frugality. Yes to creativity. Forgiveness. Prayer. Enlightenment, learning, knowledge.  Yes to children. Babies. […]

Simplicity

We need simplicity to create. We need: offloading, clarity, sparseness, clean lines. Make it a focused, spare, and clutter-free mental environment.  We require an absence of interruptions, those nasty bug bites that send our creative muse to dance at another party. We’d like to think other people stop the flow. No. In our heart of hearts, we KNOW that interruptions are […]

Borrow

We borrow our identities when we give in to outside approval.  It’s a counter-force to innovation. “What if they don’t like it?” squelches the courage to ship.  We don’t need approval at the creative stage.  In fact, we don’t need it at all unless we want to sell what we’ve made.  Anyone knows that.  Right? […]

Immmunization

Immunization against insinuation of information into the insanity of instantaneous interruption and insidious imperfections invites investigation. Individuals interested in including informed implications of important inroads into the ignorance of intermittent immersion are instructed to ignore inner itches and implore the id to inure  itself against impish interlopers. Indelibly ingrained in the implications are immediate interventions […]

Guess

Life is a guess.  I guess I’ll get up. I guess I’ll go to work. I guess I’ll take this route. I guess we’ll have a baby. I guess we’ll take a vacation. I guess we’ll get married. I guess we’ll get divorced… move… take a walk… make bread… find gravity… lose weight… learn to […]

Relax

Vacations are to relax!   A re-set to be sure. Re-sent to re-set without resenting the recent recession, we released the ressussitiveness of restoration in remote resorts, reminiscent of reinventions reprised by rotund retailers on red-roostered roof tops, and….. we Relax. Regal? No. Roadies.  We rolled on roads in our rugged roadster replete with refreshments, Ruffles […]