If you're not happy, you're wasting time.

- Justin Rogers, Cowboy

Honoring America 's Firefighters

Baskin Robbins is honoring America 's Firefighters by selling ice cream for $.31 cents per scoop on Wednesday, April 30th between 5 and 10 pm. Grab your friends, and/or the kids and have a cool one! This fundraiser for the firefighters is an important one for them, so let's go out and have ice cream and support a great cause.

http://www.baskinrobbins.com/Promotion/31cent.aspx

Making The Most Of Your Tax Refund

According to Kiplinger.com, about 70 percent of all filers get tax refunds and are anticipating a tax refund this year averaging $2,200. The National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) suggests tips for managing your tax refund.
http://www.debtadvice.org./Consumer_Tips/consumertips_05.cfm

Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami.

How do we deal with all of our Unread messages? What did famous people do with 100's of letters per day? What is today's advice? Consider the postal service. How often does it pick-up and deliver e-mail? Once or twice-a-day is likely enough. Any more and you couldn't get any work done. The same can apply to e-mail.

Keep your e-mail off during your busy hours at work and then read it when it's not interrupting your work. If it's part of your work flow, then define certain times that you read it. Depending on your work style, consider once an hour at the half-hour, or maybe at 10-2-4. Once you get a system in place, it will be easier to manage.

Here's the full NY Times article on the topic. You may gleam some ideas here.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

- William Hazlitt

Do you want to live past 100? It's not just in the genes, which accounts for 25% of the longevity factor. It's about diet, exercise, keeping the mind busy, and a passion for something.

Good video on this topic today:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4700405&page=1

You create your own universe as you go along.

- Winston Churchill

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

- Booker T. Washington

Life is short.
We should do what we enjoy doing most - more.
Pursue dreams seriously. Don't let time slip by too often.
Make the most from life while we're here.

- Kelly Shipp, 2007

Pat the customer's back first.

The secret to the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

- William Dean Howells

The love we give away is
the only love we keep.

- Elbert Hubbard

Bark less,
wag more.

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

- Benjamin Franklin, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Laughing burns calories! Burn some calories this weekend! :)

The quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.

Don't be afraid to start small.