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 Words Of Wisdom:
People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
Luciano Pavarotti
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Welcome to week 17 of Expressions weekly newsletter. We will inspire you, make you laugh, make you think and help you grow. I will include encouraging tips, words for the day and food for thought, recipes for success and lots of fun every week!
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How to Encourage Your Team Members to Stand Up and Lead!
To win in today's market, team members have to step up and be ready to take a leadership role. It is not easy to develop leadership skills in others. It's very important to also understand that some people do not share your goals and aspirations. Keep an open mind and learn to use different techniques to inspire different team members to stand up and lead.
1. Challenge - Issue a challenge. (In today's market environment, you probably have many challenges to issue!) Some people need a specific challenge to motivate them. By laying down a challenge, you also create a very clear and measurable goal for a staff member to achieve.
2. Appeal to noble motives - Many employees think that their work does not make a difference. By appealing to a team's noble motives, you can increase morale while also setting higher standards for your staff members.
3. Be sympathetic - Never tell someone that they are wrong. Even when you disagree, listen and be empathetic to another person's ideas and desires.
4. Evidence - Back up your ideas with proof. By providing evidence, you can give instant credibility to your ideas. If you have evidence, even staff members who have a different perspective will take notice.
5. Listen - Listen to what your staff members have to say. Some employees may not want to reach top corporate positions; instead, they may simply be content if their opinions and ideas are valued.
6. Ask questions - Instead of giving direct orders, ask questions to guide your staff members to think through the issues and come up with their own solutions.
7. Value your staff - Make your staff members feel genuinely important. Faced with the market challenges today, your employees must be reassured that their contribution and leadership DOES have a huge impact on the company's survival, stability, and growth.
- Dale Carnegie.
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Learning to Box
The Bite:
Wrap your red glove around a box of wine. Eco-friendly, boxed wine doesn't have the best reputation for taste, but we put some into the ring and found a few that come out swingin'.
The Benefits
Knocking out packaging waste. Glass bottles require a lotta packaging during transport so they don't break. Boxes use up to 90% less.
(Prize)fighting global warming. A glass wine bottle that travels from CA to NY generates about 5.2 pounds of CO2; a 3-liter box produces half that and gives you four times the wine.
Many rounds of goodness. A box can last for a month once you open it, while bottled spoils within a few days.
More cash for wagers. Boxed wine is usually cheaper than bottled.
Personally Speaking
Our top complaint about boxed wine? That it doesn't come with eco-straws like juice boxes do.
"Oh yes! Confessions of a box wine connoisseur! I have a box in my refrigerator at the showroom and at home at all times. I do love a good bottled wine. But for those impulse moments my box of wine is an awesome treat! I do wish they had a straw!"
P.S. Box wine is excellent blended with our Wine Glace' drink mix! It is great!
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"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior"
Christina Baldwin
This is dedicated to my mother the queen of journaling! Jenn
Knowing your morals and living by them are an important part of knowing yourself and your brand.
This is so very true! Never lose sight of the importance of knowing your morals and truly putting them to work in your life! Jenn
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Our favorite and least expensive vacation is camping.
Depending on your state and area you should be able to find a decent county park, state park or national forest near you for less than $19 per night.
Here are a few campgrounds we have tried in Wisconsin and they are super fun and reasonable with prices.
Lake George Campground in Rhinelander: Starts at about $18.00 a site.
Moen Lake Campground & Resort
4061 Lakeshore Dr.
Rhinelander WI 54501
715-369-0707
$16-$18 for a site and they have a game room, restaurant and bar. Activities on the weekends like a potluck in the restaurant. Lake is across the street with a dock to fish on and boat launch. Nice area to take the dogs to swim right down the road. Our dogs love it!
Nice people!
Council Grounds State Park Merrill.
$12 to $15*
We have not personally camped here yet but my husbands boss does on a regular basis and has said it is really nice.
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Green Tips
CatalogChoice.org Opt out of catalog mailings
Help to cut down on paper waste by cutting down on unwanted catalogs!
Sometimes I feel inundated with catalogs from companies, many of whom I have never bought from before. I will get the same catalog at my shop and home, often more than one under different names. Recently Office Max sent 4 of the same catalog to our home all addressed to different people who had lived in our house over the years. I recently received a flying magazine for the second time, I do not own a plane, not yet anyway haha. This is an incredible waste of resorces and energy, both in making the catalog and getting it to us. Catalogchoice.org is a website that allows you to decline catalogs you don't wish to receive, thus uncluttering your mailbox, and saving natural resources. It is pretty easy. Just create an account and start listing the catalogs you don't want to receive. Having the catalog there with your customer number makes it a bit easier, but it is not necessary. When I last checked their website on they had posted these statistics: The Catalog Choice community is presently 965,997 persons strong, having already opted out of 12,678,779 catalogs. Together, we are going to improve our lives, and conserve our planet's natural resources! Bravo! |
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More Green Tips...
By buying from your local farmer's markets and producers you cut down on energy costs in transporting food, you support the local economy, and have better control over the food you eat. In fact, many of the local farmers farm organically but, due to the cost of getting certified and all the red tape, simply can't afford to put that seal on their package.  Much of the organic industry is governed by the big agriculture companies, which is why a food can have additives and preservatives and still be labeled organic. In fact the term organic is owned by the government, so a smaller producer who can't afford all the fees and time it takes to deal with the government can't call themselves organic. We had one product that was made entirely with organic ingredients, but the label didn't state the cookies were organic.
Our policy at Expressions and in our home is to buy all we can from the local farmer's markets and to find as many local sources for quality products as possible. As a result we have found a few new chocolate makers from Central Wisconsin as well as some great coffee from Ringle and wines and nuts. We still demand fantastic flavors (being local or organic isn't enough by itself). You wouldn't want it any other way.
Have A Great Week! We will see you next time...
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"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
Mother Theresa
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