Upper Management Effort Really Does Burn Up Calories!

Contrary to popular belief, management people and high level executives do burn up a lot of calories despite the sedentary nature of their positions and the fact that some of them never look like they're doing anything really productive.

The following chart, compiled from studies by reliable and authoritative medical sources, lists typical management activities and the number of calories consumed by each.

Tooting your horn 25
Beating around the bush 75
Jumping to conclusion 100
Climbing the wall 150
Swallowing your pride 50
Passing the buck 25
Throwing your weight around
(depending on your weight) 50 to 300
Dragging your heels 100
Pushing your luck 250
Making mountains out of
molehills 500
Adding fuel to the fire 150
Hitting the nail on the head 50
Wading through paperwork 300
Jumping on the bandwagon 200
Running around in circles 350
Climbing the ladder to success 750
Wrapping it up at day's end 12

(Reprinted from the California Landscape & Irrigation Council, Inc. Landscape Contractor).

"MY QUIET FRIEND"

You've always been there
In good times and bad
You let me be happy
You let me be sad

You never complained
When I came home late
You didn't ask questions
You'd stay there and wait

You didn't ask for much
Just water and food
You never complained
Or had a bad mood

You'd stay by the window
And not say a thing
No talks of tomorrow
Or what it may bring

I think of leaving
But I know I just can't
Who'd take care of you
For you're just a plant

"I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time."
- Charlie Brown

In America, fewer than one in five households is headed by a self-employed business owner or professional. But these self-employed people are four times more likely to be millionaires than those who work for others.

Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko, "The Millionaire Next Door"

"The best part about having dreams is that they can come true. You start by loving your questions enough to stick with them."

- Fred Bortz, physicist, writer

"If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
- Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Greek soldier, playwright

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir your blood... MAKE BIG PLANS. Aim high in hope and work.…
- Daniel H. Burnham

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
- Vincent Van Gogh

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Thomas Edison