If you’ve ever read my blog before, you know that I’m a runner. In fact, I wrote another piece here about training for a half marathon and how it relates to sales. It will probably come as no surprise to you that injuries can happen when you regularly participate in...
I would not call myself a baseball junkie by any stretch. As a kid I played softball from second grade until I graduated high school, and we went and saw a Tiger game at least once a year. (Shout out to all my readers from the D!) Now that one of my daughters is...
Well, friends, I did it again. Back in 2015, shortly after I moved to Connecticut from Chicago, I trained for and ran my first half marathon at the age of 45. Then the next year I ran another. Earlier this year, I decided that the months leading up to those races were...
Friends, I’m not gonna lie to you. I am stressed. Like, in a constant pit of my stomach, breaking out in a cold sweat stressed. And the reasons that I am stressed are many. Some of them are personal, some of them are family related, and some of them are because of my...
As I was doing my usual Tuesday morning social media audits ( translation: spending time on LinkedIn and Twitter looking for cool stuff and trying to find some inspiration to write this blog) I stumbled upon a Harvard Business Review Article that claimed that spending...
Being that it is Women’s History Month, and we are celebrating Women’s Print HERstory month all month long at Girls Who Print, it seemed only fitting and timely to write this. At times you may feel that the piece sounds bossy. You may find me aggressive and snarky and...
I am going to start this post with a huge disclaimer. I AM NOT A DISNEY PERSON. My kids are not Disney kids. We are not a Disney family. But we went there. Oh yes, we did. We decided to tack a couple days on at the parks because we were going on a cruise leaving out...
There’s a difference between being a BOSS and being BOSSY, but it will be hard for you to tell the difference while reading this post, dear readers. Because today I want you to pretend with me. Close your eyes (I mean it, close your eyes! See what I mean about being...
Yes, that’s right. It’s holiday and year-end time; a time when bloggers the world over dig deep into their creative toolboxes to write to you about (wait for it) GIFT GIVING. Ho to the hum. Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I am no different, dear reader. I too,...
Two of my favorite sayings regarding listening come from my work bestie Bill, who always says, “you have one mouth and 2 ears – do the math” and “you learn more with your mouth closed”. REALLY listening to someone is a true gift. Constantly striving to be a better...
One of the main focal points of Print’18, held 2 weeks ago in Chicago, was THE NEXT GENERATION. Much energy and discussion surrounded what will happen to print when the “old guard” retires. I heard a story of one print shop having 3 CSR’s all retire in the same month,...
I was lucky enough to present not once, but twice at this year’s Canon inkjet users thINK conference in beautiful and humid Boca Raton, FL this past week. Yes, I am allowed to call myself lucky, but you’re not as you can read in this post of mine. In both cases, my...
