Two things I kept thinking over and over again while reading:
1.) Amen, amen, and AMEN, Tony!
2.) Why don’t more companies operate like Zappos?
This is definitely a book to keep on any business desk, home desk, or life desk:
What’s your company culture?
#SmartBusiness #Culture #LifeIsShortLoveYourJob
Of course I will accept this challenge, especially in the name of BLR…
Who do you challenge?
#BLR #ALS #IceBucketChallenge
I’d have a million dollars and be able to give that million dollars worth of money away in BLR Memorial Scholarships every year if I had even a penny for every time someone rolled their eyes and commented “Oh god- all you friggin Vermont liberal hippies!”- when they hear I am from The Green Mountain State.
Actually, I’d probably have two million. That’s why this article cracks me up.
Over the years, when people ask ridiculous things about the assumed maple syrup farm I must have grown up on with my Subaru-driving parents, I’ve gotten accustomed to sassing back with some part of; “No, we didn’t make make maple syrup growing up, Mom never carted us to town from the farm in a Subaru, my Teen Beat posters did not live within the walls of my room in our ski chalet, and I’ve never been cow-tipping. I’ve also never ridden a moose. Ben & Jerry were not our neighbors, and Phish did not play at my high school parties.” (I wish!)
Ahh- yes the stereotypes and stories that go along with all home states. Fun. As I sit here happily clicking these keys with the door open on this warm North Carolina day, Vermont is where my heart will always be in the summertime.
What a perfect way to intro to a snapshot I took just a few short weeks ago while I was back home:
ILOVERMONT.
Where do you love?
#Vermont #LifeOnTheBlueLollipopRoad #Home
I love when friends send me articles like this. (Reference post title the author’s #4.)
Of course the travel & adventure part of this womans’ story are inspiring and invigorating in that I-wanna-go-out-and-do-those-things-right-now, but the best part of this is lesson is that she took action when she had an aha moment. She started really living, and didn’t just crawl under her bed.
We all know life is short, but it seems like we just don’t live like it is. I vote for more of us to wake up with that carpe diem- life is short-let’s do it now attitude, rather than not. Whaddya say?
After wrapping a 3rd Annual BLR Play It Forward Event, I’m more than ever convinced that spending time with people I love like these:
…and doing work that means everything to me:
…(just to share a very few)- is what’s most important. The rest of life- can always be figured out. Read this article, pass it on, then ask yourself; If you could spend time with who you wanted, and do work that really meant something to you- what would you be doing?
Find your Blue Lollipop Road. Today is the day. What are you waiting for?
#Inspiration #BLR #TodayIsTheDay
*Above photos taken in Vermont during my stay for BLR Play It Forward, 2014