Please Pass the Fork
People often arrive at the metaphoric fork in the road. Many feel they can just keep charging straight ahead rather than stop to analyze which of the actual routes makes…
A Little Discomfort
Now people are trying to determine which vaccine has the least side effects after each shot! Get the damn vaccine shots wherever you can as soon as you can, take…
Don’t Forget Where You Came From
“It’s a nice place to have been from,” I often hear people say, denigrating their roots, their origins, because they’ve “made it.” I guess I’ve “made it” by most standards,…
Are You Choosing to Enjoy Yourself?
When my uncle in his late 70s, he got himself a job as a school crossing guard to have something to do. When the kids would come to the crosswalk…
Maximize Your Value, Maximize Your Fees, Oct. 4
The fee goes up the day after tomorrow by 30%. We already have 20 people from four countries. Brand new, never before presented: https://alanweiss.com/growth-experiences/maximize-value-maximize-fees/ Raise your fees by simply changing…
Well, Maybe You Weren’t Right
People get into arguments all the time about stupid things, even their hobbies, let alone sports or entertainment or politics. I can understand arguing about the way your kid is…
Poll This
Every day there are scores (that I see, so perhaps thousands) of completely useless polls on LinkedIn. Example: Which of these is more important in a candidate for a job:…
Good Things About Wearing A Mask
• No one can tell if I’ve bothered to shave. • You don’t know if I’m laughing at your joke. • I can hide most yawns. • Any food in…
Alan Weiss’s Word of the Week™ — 01/08/2022
Animadvert: To criticize and speak out against. “We are obliged to animadvert your constant attempts to raise taxes.”
Facebook Platitudes
There are myriad people on social media who do nothing but publish platitudes out of fortune cookies or Successories catalogs. Let me review some: • You can’t get out of…