It’s early on a Saturday morning. I woke up somewhat unexpectedly, hit the head, took my morning cocktail of pills, then tried to fall back asleep. Fail.<\/b><\/p>\n
The cool weather makes me sleep more soundly. When I do wake up, however, I’m awake<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I suppose that’s okay, because there’s some things I want to do online today.<\/p>\n
There’s also some folks I’d like to get in touch with; I hope to do that over the next couple of weeks in my rapidly-dwindling spare time. <\/p>\n
Do I absolutely need to talk to these folks? No. Do I just want to catch up, see what’s happening? Yes.<\/p>\n
It’s incredible how much things can change in a year’s time. And, as I’ve said many times, just doing the same broken things faster doesn’t make them any better. Professionally, I’m seeing a lot of biggerfasterhardermore. What I’d like to see is smallersimpleeffectivedifferent.<\/p>\n
Bigger and harder yield better gross profits. If, and only if, the market is static or growing. In my field, it’s actually getting smaller<\/small>.<\/p>\n
So doing it faster will mean it’s better, right<\/b>? No, not necessarily.<\/p>\n
(Aside: I really have gotten fed up lately with the sales gerbil language. Adding, “right?” to the end of a questionable statement doesn’t make it any less questionable.)<\/p>\n
So, the prompt…<\/p>\n
What was the most creative excuse you\u2019ve come up with to get out of a date, an appointment, or doing a task?<\/b><\/p>\n
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile now, and don’t really have a good answer. I try not to make commitments I know I’ll have trouble keeping. My mother has myriad stories of what I’d do as a little kid.<\/p>\n
I’m not that little kid, anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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