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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

In our last blog, we talked about the power and importance of establishing positive routines in our daily lives. Today, we are going to talk more about why it’s so crucial to establish these routines, and it might be something that you haven’t thought about. The thing...

Making Your Routines Routine

Today let’s focus on routines. Are they important? Do they matter? What do routines have to do with success? The answers are yes, yes and a lot. Here are a few varied examples: University of Alabama fans are probably well aware of Nick Saban’s meal routine. He has two...

Encouragement

In the previous blog, I talked about the dangers of discouragement. While avoiding discouragement during a pandemic is hard, we don’t need to make things harder with unfair comparisons between now and our pre-pandemic lives. “Pandemic fatigue” related to all the...

Discouragement

With everything going on in the world—all the uncertainty, all the economic and social chaos—we’re understandably feeling some discouragement. Managing work and life during a pandemic is hard! Never mind trying to learn a new skill, lose a few pounds, start a new...

Happy Father’s Day

Father’s Day is this weekend. To honor my father (and fathers everywhere), I want to share some of the life lessons my own dad taught me. He’s deceased now, but I think of these lessons all the time. They’ve certainly helped me over the years, and I hope you find them...

End of the Outside Salesperson, Part 2

part 2 of 2 This blog post and Part 1 were published earlier this month in the Birmingham Business Journal. As a guest columnist, I wanted to share my thoughts on our “new normal.”  In our previous blog, we talked about how much—and how fast—life and work have changed...

End of the Outside Salesperson

part 1 of 2 This blog post and the next were published earlier this month in the Birmingham Business Journal. I shared this content as a guest columnist because I think it’s important information for where we are right now. We all can acknowledge that consumer buying...