CLUELESS: I am not talking about the movie, I am talking about a way of being. For the love of God, please act like a professional actor. Let me explain something, have any of you reading this ever worked in the service industry? Do you like it when you are 5 hours into an 8 hour shift and a customer can’t make up his or her mind, changes their order several times…? (more…)

While I do not do it often, from time to time, I’ll get an email from a terrific member and I am just compelled to use the circumstances for a blog.  Mind you, the identity of any member never matters…as it is the principle…that matters.

The member wrote:

I did not use the vast resources of the network much at all this past year and I think deep down, I don’t believe I will this year.  I don’t know why I don’t.  Maybe I think I should be farther along than I am and so to come in for the discussions, Power Groups or guests feels like I’m stepping backwards.  Crazy, silly and self-defeating probably. (more…)