Category: What Would You Do?

“Dude, what’s wrong you suffering from buyer’s remorse or something?” — Dionne in Clueless According to Wikipedia, “Buyer’s remorse is an emotional condition whereby a person feels remorse or regret after a purchase. It is frequently associated with the purchase of higher value items such as property, cars, computers, jewelry, etc.” This is the feeling…

Every event life throws at us gives us the opportunity to choose our response to it. In our response and our interpretation of events is where our true power lies. If you doubt the power, read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning where the power to choose one’s response meant the difference between surviving and…

As we were driving past one of my old neighborhoods, my friend tells her girlfriend, “And Johnny used to live here when this place was called Western Addition, before it became NoPa.” We then began to mock the name change because it marked the official sign of a gentrified neighborhood. There was something about this…

For anyone who has ever worked in an office this question has come up at least once in his or her life. With the paltry vacation time most companies offer employees in the US, many people find themselves “stuck” when it comes to having enough time to take off from work. After all besides the…

I have been touring, conferencing and researching for my writing by car for the last two weeks. I have eaten almost nothing but successfully corporate Trader Joe’s from my cooler for the entire time. I loaded up at Joe’s first in Portland, then Seattle, then San Francisco and again in Vegas. But I’m starting to…

“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” — Barbara Bush It wasn’t that long ago when the nation’s pundits were up in arms about World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz and the discovery that he arranged a $60,000 raise for his girlfriend. Eventually a bank committee charged that he violated…

This week’s WWYD is a short one, but a goodie. I’m hoping we can generate ideas that are helpful for everyone. There are days my job is so stressful, I’m completely depleted by the time I get home. Some days at work are so dull that my brain is a bowl of porridge by 5:00…

I don’t know about you but this new trend toward self checkout in stores has hit on my last nerve. While I am all for being self sufficient when I go somewhere to buy stuff and am spending money, I don’t want to have to be the employee too. That is why you hire checkout…