small business ct: Chinet: The Great Stress Reliever
- 07/16/14 03:12 AM
As a small business owner, parent, friend, adult child, sibling or neighbor...Your plate can get incredibly full. Small Business owners tend to have more on their plate than most, honestly. Add the unexpected addition of life when you least expect it, and your plate can and will start hitting maximim capacity. This past month has been one of those months for me. I run 2 pretty exciting businesses - both are full steam ahead and I'm definitely being rewarded for all my hard work over the years! More importantly, in the past month I've had to not only manage what life throws (2 comments)
small business ct: Lessons from the Shoe Salesman at Rosenblatt's
- 06/29/14 12:01 AM
I always look back at my mother's real estate business. Every experience growing up has absolutely defined who I am. I swore, after watching my mother build her empire, I myself would never be a business owner. I watched her work endlessly, never missing an opportunity to hand out her card and talk real estate. Whether we were at the grocery store, the post office or having our teeth cleaned, my mother was "helping people's dreams come true" through home ownership. She never turned off. Ever. As a kid, it was painful. I recall being at Rosenblatt's Department Store and I (6 comments)
small business ct: Why Doesn't My Mirror Work?
- 06/27/14 11:02 PM
I'd love to go into this diatribe about how the mirrors in Nordstrom's are rigged to make me look thinner and better in the clothes I try on there (probably not a bad sales strategy, come to think of it!) Today, I'll spare you the pain of that conversation. Take a moment, however, and reflect on this. Every morning you walk into your bathroom and look at yourself. Day in, day out... same thing every day. Then all of a sudden, you see a picture posted on Facebook. It's you! A much older/grayer/heavier version of that person you see in the mirror (20 comments)