The Friendship Factor

by Jordan Chanski Before coming to Whittaker Associates, I was employed at a locally-owned furniture company as a warehouse supervisor. Known as a place where shoppers regularly became friends with salespeople, the store closed in December of 2005 after over a decade...

by Joel Burgess According the book The Power of Focus (Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt), procrastinating can be thought of as a form of self-castration. After all, to castrate means to impoverish or render ineffective. When you procrastinate you are...

All About Attitude

by Jami Miedema I have always been the type of person to steer away from reading self-help and motivational books. I find their content not only unconvincing and unoriginal, but just plain corny. So it was to my surprise that just recently I read one from front to...

Because Life Doesn't Have to Be So Hard

by Dean Whittaker Richard Carlson, in his 2005 book Easier Than You Think, describes how making small changes in our lives can lead to major improvements in our well-being. We live in stressful, chaotic times. Carlson says that our thoughts are the most powerful tools...

HappyNews.com

by Joel Burgess HappyNews.com As the Christmas season wraps up and the New Year begins, do you ever get the feeling that any resemblance of good cheer that existed quickly gives way to long, angry, customer-service lines? (Those same lines that trampled people at...