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By Dave Kelly I was a server all through college and even for a couple of years after I graduated. I worked in fine dining environments, up-scale restaurants, and pubs, wearing anything from long-sleeved dress shirts with a tie to a polo shirt and khakis. Everywhere I worked, I wanted to be known as the [...] STRATEGY #6 TO SURVIVE A DOWN ECONOMY By Kevin M If there’s ever been a time to adopt flexibility as a strategy, it’s now. The certainty we knew only a few short years ago is currently failing us, and our progress and even our survival may rest on our willingness to adapt to change [...] By Dave Kelly A couple of days before Christmas, I was in my garage about to get in my car to go to a meeting. A large overnight delivery service truck pulled up to my neighbor’s house and the driver hopped out with a package. He looked up and waved at me, walked past my [...] By Dave Kelly I spent 20 years in the mortgage business. During ten of those years, I had my own company. Nine of those years were with a business partner. He and I eventually broke up over a business disagreement: He was stealing from me and I didn’t want him to. About a year before [...] By Kevin M “We don’t realize how much hope drives our lives. When hope is gone, life looks a lot different, a lot darker.”–David L. Heller (1913-1992), a cherished friend and mentor Somewhere along the path of life we lose our dreams. Life rolls along, we have responsibilities, bills to pay, obligations—we “grow up”. Over [...] By Kevin M Right now I know a substantial number of people who are looking for a job, but can’t think of a single one who’s found a job through the major internet job boards. Perhaps this has been your experience as well. Earlier this summer, a CNN articleThe Hidden Job Market (Jessica Dickler, June [...] STRATEGY #4 TO SURVIVE A DOWN ECONOMY By Kevin M When ever the economy turns sour, there’s a general tendency to stay on current jobs as long as possible, under the belief that it’s better to stay where we’re established than to go to another company where we’ll be the new/low man on the [...] By Dave Kelly You can. You have infinite power and ability that was placed in you the moment you were conceived. You must choose to make use of those God-given talents and abilities. Most people don’t, or won’t. What’s holding you back? Fear of failure? Lack of money? No road map? The moment is not [...] By Dave Kelly I was a server all through college and even for a couple of years after I graduated. I worked in fine dining environments, up-scale restaurants, and pubs, wearing anything from long-sleeved dress shirts with a tie to a polo shirt and khakis. Everywhere I worked, I wanted to be known as the [...] |
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Lending a Hand to the Economys Victims
By Kevin M
A family living in a McMansion loses their home to foreclosure. An overbearing manager earning a six figure salary loses his job in a department shut down. The (former) most prosperous family in the neighborhood is forced to close down their business for lack of sales; there’s a for sale sign on [...]