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Thanking God for His Patience
How Patient has God had to have been with you? and how much more patient will He continued to be? I realized this the other day when I was praying about some things I was waiting on. From housing to my previous job search to other things. It dawned on me that God has had to have had a lot of patience with my choices, desires, and actions. So what does this mean? It means that even though we wait a lot for things in our lives to work out not only is God working things out in the background for his good, He also has patience for us. God…
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Merry Christmas! – My Digital Christmas Card
I hope this letter finds you all well, and enjoying celebrating Christ’s birth with loved ones. I had a busy year myself and I realized it was time for me to start some of my own traditions. Namely writing a letter – but since I already have a spot to write here I thought I would just send my Christmas greetings from here. Outside of swing dancing throughout the year, getting in some great pick up hockey and writing here’s what’s been happening this year. I started off this year early in the morning and went on a solo trip to LA on the 1st and stayed there until the…
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I Accidently Tried a Food Subscription Box, Heres What Happened
One of my coworkers had been ordering one of those boxes, where they send you about 95% of the ingredients as well as all the instructions. A couple of weeks ago she found another on her desk, but immediately mentioned how it didn’t fit her new eating regimen. She was trying to get rid of it so I asked her if I could help, I then mentioned that I’d be happy to take it if she’d let me and so I got the food in the work freezer and the next day or so I took it home. Well, I got it home got the ingredients packed into my fridge…
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A Different Kind of Seasonal Shopping
I realized late-summer that I needed to invest in quality sandals, good thing too – as prices were just going down. I’ve known for a while to shop for various items out of season. From picking up new fall boots in November to finding a swimsuit in mid-July. There are somethings you can totally get away with buying at the end of the season. About a month ago, I found new sandals at REI, I only recently got my membership and realized it could be a good time to pick up their somewhat-overpriced sandals – while they were on clearance. I was right. The trick is to not be bothered…
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All Squared Away
I tried a new form of dancing this past weekend: square dancing! I went to “barn dance” with some friends from church, and within a few minutes of arriving we overheard that it would be primarily square dancing, I was a bit daunted by this new style, and admittedly waiting for a swing dance portion to the evening, but the square dancing turned out to be super fun! To be honest, I hadn’t known what square dancing really involved before, that or I didn’t remember if I had learned it previously learned in middle school or something. I had never realized what it took to square dance: eight people who…
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A Whole Year
365 I have officially blogged every day for 365 days, or a normal year today. I have written that many days worth of content, I have also learned over 365 new things. As I look back on a year of blog posts I can’t neglect to remember what started this journey, even before the first day of daily posts came: I became a Praxian. I joined a unique educational organization in an effort to set myself apart from the crowd. I joined an organization that was built for mold breakers and then I shattered any mold that could’ve put me in. I shattered my own mold, I wasn’t just a…
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When Marketing Takes an Unexpected Turn
I’ve been prospecting on Yelp this week, I know it sounds random, but I can see tons of related business, they’re ratings and links to their websites. What I also see is advertisements for other related/local companies. I click those. Those people clearly want the business that the one whose page I currently on would otherwise get. Especially if I can connect to both business, we could also help both remain competitive. But instead I’m going to call them for a sales call in hopes to help them be even more competitive against their competition by using my company’s product. So marketers, watch for who might see your ad. It…
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The Business of Business
I watched a YouTube video today that was all about franchises, I also subscribe to Entrepreneur Magazine. It’s interesting to read the quick numbers of how much money a franchise owner spends to open their chosen establishment. Obviously, some are cheaper than others. It’s still an investment though, and I think it’s important to realize from an employee perspective. Even a humble Subway costs about an average of $200,000 but that number comes from a 10 second Google search so don’t hold me to that. What I’m getting at is that a lot goes into theses places, whether they always look like it or not. A lot of time, money,…
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The Laborer’s Wage
This was the parable covered in today’s sermon. It’s about the fairness of the Laborers pay, in addition to the famous quote Jesus said, “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” It was interesting to hear a new perspective on these verses, specifically this last verse in the story. Sometimes on a purely logical level at least this quote doesn’t make sense. I mean how could the first person in a line suddenly become the last, and why would that happen (to put it in the terms that came to mind for me). The pastor this morning talked about how at its core the quote…
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Remarkable
What makes an idea remarkable? That’s the question posed by Seth Godin in his book Purple Cow. He starts by saying that a purple cow would be remarkable! He’s right, no one has ever seen a purple cow before, and you wouldn’t even have to use much marketing on it because it would market itself to a large extent. He argues that marketing is more than just about considering the normal “P”s of marketing, that is, pricing, promotion, placement, publicity, among others, it’s about the new “P” – Purple Cow. Godin, also uses real-life examples of remarkable ideas in his book. Allow me to explain a few. Take the Case…
