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Common sense phone etiquette

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Have you ever been in a restaurant in the evening with your spouse and wanted to enjoy an evening of togetherness?

Now right next to you; you see another couple where one of the parties is on the phone the entire night. Any thoughts to that?!

Maybe I am very old fashioned, but when I am with my clients, friend or family at breakfast, lunch, dinner or in a meeting my phone is silent. Any call that comes in during that time has to wait until I am done and my FULL attention is focused on the person(s) and task in front of me and everything else will have to wait until we are done.

It is not only very inconsiderate to the person that you are with at the time, especially when you are planning on doing business with them, but also to the person you talk to on the other end of the phone.

Here are some tips on avoiding phone interruptions during meetings.

  • Turn your phone on silent
  • Let your office know that you are in a very important meeting and let them take a message as for you.
  • Have your Voice messages emailed or texted to you
  • Change your phone message to reflect that you are in a meeting and that you will get back with the person with in a set time frame.
  • Have a set time when you have meetings, answering calls back and do other work

I have more tips but my main basic tip is; Don’t take phone calls while you are in a meeting.

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I call it the stinking thinking

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As soon as you open the email, or turn on the TV you hear the bad news.

Job loss here, cut back there …..and you name it.

Today alone the last months’ job numbers where posted. Nation wide now at 8.1% unemployment…..

…….91.9% of the total work force is still employed.

Things I hear on the street every day are sayings like

 …..I am not getting my raise this year.

…. I no longer get any overtime.

…. I was told I have to take an extra day off

Think of it as:

….my Company is being proactive so that I still can work in the near future.

I call it as the stinking thinking that get’s us in a bad mood and how we think about things what we are being spoon feed over the news and airwaves every day.

It does not matter what your circumstances are at the present moment. Think positively, expect only favorable results and situations, and circumstances will change accordingly. It may take some time for the changes to take place, but eventually they do.

Sure you can not turn the stinking thinking around on a dime and no one expect s you to do this. You need to practice and maybe find a positive thinking partner to help you with this.

Read about the subject; and when you can not buy the book there is always the old fashion library to go to.

Start visualizing you success, smile more even when you have to face it and use positive words when communication with yourself and others.

Last but not least…..as soon as you have one of those stinking thinking thoughts try to replace it with a positive thought. It is not easy at the beginning. We are creatures of habit and habits are sometimes hard to break, but you will get there.

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Mild Winter has it’s seperate issue…… bugs…….

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I love this unusually mild winter weather, and I know winter is not over and we might still get hit with a huge storm.

One downfall I have uncovered of this mild winter season is the bugs who normally keep out of sight and out of mind until spring. I am now in full combat mode against the little aunts who think they can invade my house. Having dogs in the house I need to be very careful what I use to combat the little pests and where I stick any bait that I choose to use.

Looking though some of the home remedies that I ran across but have not tried many of them due to short timing. I find the infested area and the source or trail where they are coming from, and use household table salt. Sprinkle around window sills, baseboards, door thresholds, anywhere where needed.

Another one would be to mix borax and sugar water to make a trap or sprinkle borax on the ant trail of ants and they take the borax bake to the nest and kill them all.

Yeast Molasses Sugar Mix; Mix together 1 part sugar, 1 part active yeast and 2 parts molasses. Drop the mixture, 1 teaspoon at the time, onto small pieces of paper.

Strategically place the pieces of paper along ant trails or where the ant problem is obvious. This is one of the safest home remedies for ants because it contains no chemicals

When a spray is preferred here is one I have found but not tried is a Garlic Onion Pepper Mix;

Take a quart of water and add 1 clove of garlic, 1 small onion and 1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper. Let that mixture set there for about 1 hour.

Next add 1 tablespoon of liquid dishwashing soap. Put the concoction in a spray bottle and spray it around the house where you have the ant problem areas. This is also one of the safer home remedies for ants.

When you have more Ideas I am gladly to post the ideas for you.