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Occasionally, I bring my work hat to Freesia Lane. I am in marketing, where social media plays a large role in our day. This posted on Blue Shoe Strategy’s blog this morning. I know most of you are on Facebook. Thought you might find it relevant. Christine An excellent piece by Jenna Wortham ran in the The New York Times today, Facebook’s Existential Crisis. She challenges the worth of the content of Facebook, its relevance Note From Christine: As many of you know, I’m a marketer (rhymes with racketeer, just sayin’) by day. I rarely post the same blog on my business website as on Freesia Lane, but this post on how successful people do the tasks they find unpleasant had such a strong response from people from a personal habitual standpoint, I thought you might find it of interest. I recently read that successful entrepreneurs have one thing I’m funny. Sometimes really funny. I sent this letter back in October after feeling at the end of the rope regarding my local bank here on Cape Cod, where I now reside. I will tell you about the response in another blog, but I just want you to ask yourself at the end of reading it if you think I’m a mean girl … or so clever you can’t believe it and want to call I had lunch the other day with a friend of mine. Talk turned to fathers, and how similar our two fathers were. Her father was a worker and a golfer like mine. Work and golf and show up now and then to be a larger than life presence in the lives of their kids. Mine was a tough taskmaster whom I didn’t appreciate until long after he no longer had any influence on me. We I was driving in the car and heard the following statistic: For the first time in eighteen years, on-time arrival statistics for airlines are at an all-time high of more than 60%. Because my nomadic lifestyle has decentralized my circle of friends, I go to the airport a lot. I’m picking up friends, dropping them off, and flying hither and yon. Over the past five years or so, every person who has arrived to visit―and Dear Postmaster General, We need to talk. I heard on the news this morning that you are losing $25,000,000 per day—yes, that’s twenty-five million dollars—running the Post Office. I’m not a math girl, but according to my iPhone’s calculator, that is 9.125+9 dollars per year? What the heck does that mean? Oh, and you are short a few billion for next week’s payroll. Well, it’s a lot of money brother. Time to talk. I have The fabulous daughter Sarah, whom I’m not allowed to discuss in this blog, just graduated from law school. Anyway, as a gift for graduation, I had our graphic designer at Blue Shoe Strategy design a leather-bound book with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in it. I was a D+ student in high school, and I didn’t take any government classes in college, so I decided to read them while happily thumbing through my I really want to think of myself as an organized person. I work hard at it. I took the Franklin Covey three-day course in using their planner, which frankly was a very long time to sit and learn how to fill in your calendar. I buy calendars and agendas yearly, and notebooks usually once a month. I buy them and start all over. Then I throw out the paper organizers and notebooks and move to I don’t wish to sound bitter, especially on such a lovely summer day, but I’m getting more and more irritated by e-mail issues and I wanted to address some of these issues here. I’m sure you will now adjust your opinion of me and realize that, far from being the fab woman you thought I was, polite and filled with gratitude for the world at large, I am in truth constantly irritated by breaches of I was at dinner the other night with some people from work I don’t know well, and the subject of TV came up. I said, “I love The Bachelorette.” “You watch The Bachelorette?” “Why yes I do. Does that surprise you?” “It sure does. I thought you only read books or maybe watched the History channel.” I didn’t get much into it but the next day I was riding to work with another person who’d |
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