Continuing my series on life lessons, (read the first part here), today I’m covering three huge lessons learned when I took an executive assistant job in Jacksonville, Florida. Don’t Make Assumptions Before taking the position in Jacksonville, I had been working for a gaming company in Texas for ten years. It became evident that the…
Category: Rants & Reflections
Life Lessons – Part 1
There are several times in life where, for whatever reason, something someone says or does teaches you a valuable lesson that you never forget. It is so profound that it resurfaces at appropriate times to help you adjust your behavior for the better – a life lesson. Here is the story of two of my…
What Are You Listening To?
Strolling around downtown Fort Worth during a lunch break recently, I had my earbuds in listening to some music. This particular day, I was honed in on how each song would give what was going on around me a totally different feel, similar to how music enhances a scene in a movie. My curiosity was…
What My Father Taught Me
It’s Father’s Day. And in the spirit of being fair, since I wrote this type of post for my mother, I wanted to go over the things that my father has taught me. Work Hard My dad has been busting his butt for years. He still does. You’d think at 70 he could slow down,…
Things Technology has Replaced
This past weekend I was sprawled on my bed going through some old photos trying to find specific ones for a project I was working on. I ended up getting lost in them for several hours. I laughed, I shared some with other family members, I got misty eyed looking at pictures of people who…