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Lessons from a Child

April 1, 2014 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

child handing flower to adult

She was dressed in pink sweatpants with the word, “sweet” emblazoned on her diaper-clad bottom.

On her feet were brown clogs. Atop her head was a wool, knitted, patchwork cap of pink, yellow, and red, giving her a pastel “Rastafarian” look. However, instead of dreadlocks wrapped within, a waterfall of blonde, bouncy, curls framed her wide-open blue eyes and light complexion.

In her chubby, small, right hand, she carried what used to be a cookie; now, however, all that remained was a half eaten, saliva-covered, dollop of doughy goo with a smattering of pink frosting encrusting the edges. “Cookie” in hand, she bounded as if on springs from one corner of the bakery to the other, her grandfather always in eye shot, as she pointed to each of the items on the bottom shelf of the bakery’s glass case, looking to him for the correct word.

“Cookie,” he said, as she pointed to a green, sprinkle covered cut-out of a dinosaur.

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Filed Under: Baby Boomers, Newspaper Column, Power of Attitude Tagged With: change, doubt, facebook, habit, how, music, perfectionist, productivity, smile, weight loss

Pocket Motivation: The 5 Best Weight Loss Apps

March 18, 2014 by Featured Author Leave a Comment

girl - weight lossNow that you’re addicted, ahem, acclimated to your smartphone, you’ve undoubtedly started downloading a multitude of apps. Glorious, glorious apps! And studies have shown that keeping track of your food intake is one of the easiest ways to achieve your weight loss goals, and what’s easier than using a device you already keep on you 24/7? But, as you’ve undoubtedly also heard, it’s just an important to stay active. Staying healthy or losing weight is hard work, so here are five of the best apps for exercise, healthy eating and weight management.

1. Lose it!

By inputting both your current weight and goal weight, the app calculates an estimated number of calories to eat per day and helps you stay committed to small healthy habits that lead to big results. Finding and logging said foods is also as easy as scanning bar codes to pull nutritional information from a massive food database. This nifty feature helps you stay accurate when grabbing snacks on the go. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Diet, Exercise, Guest Author, Weight Loss Tagged With: exercise, facebook, friends, guest author, how, losing weight, management, music, weight loss, work

Really Sweet Photograph about “Carrots in Love”

November 1, 2011 by Scott "Q" Marcus

I don’t know whether this is real or not (it looks like it to me) but I found it real sweet and uplifting and wanted to share it. It’s from someone’s facebook page which you can find here (they have several other real cool images too).

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Filed Under: humor, Inspiration, Misc Tagged With: carrots, facebook, love, Organic Green Roots, photograph

Facebook Friend Invitations: The New Spammers

June 27, 2011 by Scott "Q" Marcus Leave a Comment

It’s time for a rant!

I have to vent!

I like Facebook (one might be able to tell by the time I spend there. Sigh…). HOWEVER,  just because I’ve agreed to be a friend does NOT mean I want to receive an invitation (more accurately called “advertisement”) to EVERY FREAKIN’ EVENT someone is doing. (Besides, I thought Twitter was the place for annoying advertisements… Just joking… )

Today, I got the next in a series of invitations to attend a law forum (do I look like a lawyer?) in Wyoming (am I even NEAR Wyoming?) telling me how to improve my failing law practice (I guess since I didn’t know I was a lawyer in Wyoming, it explains why my practice has not been doing well). I have received from this “friend” a new law forum invitation every week and they’re never near me and I always say “NO” (do you think he’d get the hint?).

Why do I continue to get all these Facebook invites?

I apparently have some “friends”  who don’t give a damn if I’m interested – or if I can attend – I’ve just become part of their daily broadcasts. I want to keep them as friends but I don’t want to merely be a vehicle by which they promote. Sure, go ahead and promote what you’re doing sometimes. I want to know. I want to help. I might even want to attend. But, be somewhat selective.

In marketing, I learned, it’s about:

  1. Know Me
  2. Like Me
  3. Trust Me
  4. Buy Me

If all you do is send me ads, oops, I mean “invitations,” and you don’t care if I fit, you don’t know me, to be honest, I won’t particularly like you, I certainly won’t trust you – and I can assure you that I will not buy from you. Most likely, the response will be “unfriend.”

If you think it’s something I might like, please invite me. (And I realize we all make mistakes so sometimes it won’t fit.) However,  If I just wanted a big ol’ list of advertisements in the morning, I’d get a penny shopper.

I’m sorry. I try to be positive. Once in awhile it just gets to me.

I feel better now. I am returning to sanity.

P.S. Now, please send this to everyone you know, whether you think it would be of value to him or her or not.

Filed Under: Conflict Management, humor, Personal, Rant Tagged With: advertisement, annoying advertisements, broadcasts, facebook, invitations, law forum, lawyer, marketing, rant, spammers

Very Funny Post About Diet, Weight Loss, and Shampoo

May 31, 2011 by Scott "Q" Marcus

OK, this one’s quick & cute – but funny as heck. I don’t know where it comes from but I have to thank my friend Marty for turning me on to it on Facebook.

As I was washing my hair in the shower this morning, I read the label on the shampoo bottle and I’m still in shock!

The shampoo I use while showering, that runs down my entire body, says “for extra volume and body”!

Seriously, why haven’t I noticed this before? Now I understand why I have gained so much weight!

I’ve decided that tomorrow I am going to start using “Dawn” dishwashing soap. It says on the label, “dissolves fat that is otherwise difficult to remove.”

Read the labels, my friend!!

Filed Under: Diet, humor Tagged With: dawn dishwashing soap, diet weight loss, facebook, labels, shampoo bottle

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