Archive for October, 2010

A few weeks ago I decided to take someone up on an offer of helping me in figuring out how to market myself. During the second visit, we began a conversation that made me do some serious thinking on the back end. We were talking about things I could and couldn’t do, and I mentioned [...]

Last week my wife did one of those moves that many people have done; she accidentally got her cell phone wet. Actually, that’s kind of a misnomer; she mixed it in with a bunch of clothes and washed it in the washing machine. She thought she lost it until she checked and found it there, [...]

Yesterday Juan Williams, the guy who wrote the book Eyes On The Prize and a long time contributor to NPR, was fired by said company for remarks he made on the Bill O’Reilly program on Fox News. Hours later he got a brand new show on that same network for more money than he was [...]

“Jimmy Carter is a failed president”. Jimmy Carter got more legislation passed than any other president who served a 4-year term, and more than many presidents who got 8-year terms. He brokered the only peace treaty between a Muslim country and Israel, one that’s stood the test of more than 30 years, and won the [...]

For most people, seeing the term ICD-10 means nothing. For those in health care, though, this is a very big deal. Medical billing and coding personnel will be significantly affected. For people in the United States, it’s a fundamental change that’s going to be a mess. ICD stands for International Classification of Diseases. Basically, this [...]

Within my last post I talked briefly about planning one’s activities so that you can free your mind of things you have to do and just get them done. I realized today that telling people to plan in that fashion hits a lot of deaf ears, because it seems planning is a lost art. I’ve [...]

It’s the beginning of the first full week of October, and in central New York, it’s going to be cloudy and rainy all week. Usually when it gets like this people are more depressed or sad because they know summer is truly over and that cold and snow is just around the corner. You know [...]