the grand super C asked: I’ve been doing alot of digging recently about lyme disease which I think I might have. I’m currently 29 years of age and when I was 5 my mother found a tick on me and took me to a hospital where they didn’t really want to do much-probably for the [...]
Feb
20
Medifast?
Bamagirl2010 asked: I am thinking about starting the medifast diet. I gained the freshman 15 while I was away at college, and have also packed on more sense going through a split with a long time boyfriend. I’m thinking about doing the 2 week trial run to see… But how does the food taste? Do [...]
Aug
22
Dating Advice
Friends Are Not Always HelpfulIf he had said, “Sure, we’ll go for a drink”, or “Yes, let’s go for a meal”, I would have been fine with it; but instead he said, “It’s a date.” With those three words everything changed. Suddenly we were not just friends anymore, we were dating.Dating? Young people go on dates, but at forty-something, I could not be considered young anymore. I had not been on a date in such a long time. What exactly did older people do on a date? I knew what young people do on a date. I had been there, I had done that.
As a teenager I had been on countless dates. But then I met ‘the’ guy, got married, and that was the end of my dating days. And now, after a divorce, I had to do this again? “How do I do this?” I asked my friends.”Be cool,” Antoinette said.”Don’t expect too much,” Joan said.”Don’t get emotionally involved,” Rica said.Right, be cool, don’t expect too much, and don’t get emotionally involved. But I was already emotionally involved. I liked this guy from the moment we met. When he was around I was tongue tied, I became all fingers and thumbs. I turned into a complete klutz. So how was I going to be cool? “Just be yourself,” Antoinette said.”Don’t talk too much,” Joan said. “Men like to talk about themselves, so let him do the talking.”"Don’t get too personal,” Rica said. “And whatever you do, don’t let on that you like him.”Advice was coming at me left, right and centre. It seemed that everybody had some words of wisdom. More words of wisdom came on what to wear for the occasion.”Dress up,” Antoinette said, “You want to make it seem like you made an effort.”"Don’t dress up,” Joan said. “You don’t want to make it seem like you’re trying too hard.”"Don’t wear high heels. You don’t want to tower over him.” “Find out what he does for a living.”"Watch what and how much he drinks.”My friends were making me dizzy. If I had known they had so much advice to give on dating, I never would have told them I was going on a date. They were making me more nervous by the minute.
Aug
3
In Business Everything is About Communications
Why Your Business Needs to Be Aware of the Messages it is SendingEverything your business does is part of your communications mix. You have to be aware of all the messages your company is sending. And you absolutely have to ensure that your employees know that whatever they do is part of the message your business gives customers.Here’s an example that we’ve all experienced more than once. Jack takes one of his most important clients to dinner, hoping to finalize a deal he’s been working on for months. He’s picked this restaurant based on the suggestion of a friend who had dined there to celebrate a birthday. The
setting is perfect. The table where Jack and his client are seated is in a quiet location so they can discuss business (Jack took care of that by calling ahead and also discretely giving the maitre de a $20 bill when they arrived). The aromas are wonderful and Jack can see that already his client is impressed.Jack and the client order their meals and begin discussing the proposal Jack gave the client earlier in the week. The discussion is going well until Jack senses that the meals are taking an incredibly long time to arrive at the table. He glances around at other tables and sees that other people are also waiting. Jack starts to worry that the deal is going south, not because of anything he’s done, but because of what’s happening at the restaurant. Jack looks for the server, but the server is nowhere in sight.Finally, after what seems like an endlessly long wait, the meals arrive and Jack and his client begin to eat. Still, Jack is tense because what should have been a pleasant meeting has been made difficult by the delay. Fortunately, Jack is able to close the deal with the client. On the way out, Jack was asked how everything was and he says, “Fine,” because he doesn’t want to complain in front of his client, but he vows that he’ll never go back to the restaurant, and he tells five other people how bad his experience was.