How Is Your Business Dressed?
How you doin’?
With a spate of warm days this past week, I’ve been wearing summer-ish clothes on days I don’t have business meetings. On Thursday, I was wearing quite a simple but pretty strappy summer dress (nothing crazy, it’s a long dress), and I went down to my local gas station to get a couple sodas.
As I went to the counter to pay, the owner looked at me and, in classic Joey Tribbiani style, said, “How YOU doin’?”
Not that remarkable a question, you might be thinking. But here’s the thing: I’ve seen the guy several times before, and he has never – never – spoken to me other than to grunt “uh-huh” when I say “thank you” after paying for whatever it is I’m there for.
I was amused by this. I mean, I’m at least 10 years older than this guy.
Filed under Business, Marketing, Public Relations, Shonali Burke | Tags: dress for success, first impressions, perception | Comments (76)Weekly Roundup: Being Mindful
Seven posts this week made me remember that it’s important of us to be mindful of who we are, what we do, whose lives we affect, how we conduct ourselves.
1. When the “helping” is helping your-self, by Valeria Maltoni.
Why: offering to “help” someone isn’t really help if the person you’re secretly hoping to help is yourself.
2. The humility imperative: CEOs, keep your arrogance in check, by Dave Balter for Inc.com.
Why: Dave sums it up: “Have humility, or your hubris will have you.”
Filed under Public Relations, Resources, Shonali Burke, Social Media, Weekly Roundup | Tags: being mindful | Comments (15)It’s Called Living; Deal With It
The first home
we bought was in a city called Antioch, Calif. As young couples are wont to do with their newly-acquired nests, we spent a lot of time fixing it up. And when I say “we,” I do mean both my husband and I.
My better half put up with all sorts of crazy notions I had, such as re-upholstering a pull-out Queen bed from scratch (I’d never upholstered so much as a footstool before), gamely joined in when I decided the family room should be painted what I can only now describe as “screaming sunset” (I didn’t know that would become the coleur d’jour on HGTV!), and stayed out of my way when I commandeered the garage – and handsaw – to frame a 7″x5″ batik wall hanging I’d brought all the way from India after we got married.
Once I was done with the inside of the house (or as much as I was willing to be done) I turned my attention to the outside. You see, it was atrocious.
There were these disgusting trees in the backyard that I couldn’t stand, there were weeds all over the place, and the previous homeowners apparently had a fondness for red lava rock. Ugh.
Filed under Business, Personal, Shonali Burke | Tags: Responsibility, work ethic | Comments (34)Even the cat that adopted us hated it (another story, another time).
