Hard work and Discipline – 97,000 Hours
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.Lance Armstrong Is it good to wake up tired? (Disclaimer: You have to wait until next month to get the answer to that question.) Ever heard of the idea that...
View ArticlePlanting and Blooming
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is today.Chinese proverb. 1. The Hedges I had a best friend growing up who lived right behind us. His family moved into their...
View ArticleThe Greatest Part About Sports is Being on a Team
This month our theme is sports and teams. What makes them good, what makes them bad? Why are some so much better than others? When my youngest son was in first grade, I made him a polo shirt with the...
View ArticleNew Beginnings
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”Seneca What is the greatest holiday gift of all time? A fresh new year is just around the corner! For 45 years, the week before Thanksgiving...
View ArticleFamily and the Ties that Bind
“How did I sleep? I slept like a baby! I slept for two hours, woke up and cried, then slept for another two hours and did the same thing. I did that all night.”John McCain, American war hero,...
View ArticleEmails, Food Quotes and the Front Lines of the Culture Wars
Call me what you like, just don’t call me late for dinner! **Especially if we are having Barbecue! We know we have some readers out there because of the many comments we get regarding our daily...
View ArticleIt’s Been a While …
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. -Albert Einstein … since the last blog post! April 2019 to be exact! Think a lot has happened since then? It has certainly...
View ArticleQueensboro on Advice
“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.” –Agatha Christie We have a funny relationship with advice. Most appreciate that good advice is very helpful, but we...
View ArticleOh, The Placed You’ll Go – Part 4
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher Custom Logo Shirts in Africa For those of you that have hung in there with me over the past month as...
View ArticleOh, The Places You’ll Go – Part 3
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne Last week we were in Central America. No luck there. This week we head to Asia. We are...
View ArticleOh, The Places You’ll Go – Part 2
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac Having just returned from factory visits to Ethiopia and Ghana, last...
View ArticleOh, The Places You’ll Go!
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to...
View ArticleYou say Squatchee, I say Squatcho – Dad Hats and Everything Else You Need to...
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” – Donald Trump A few years ago, we started seeing a lot of internet searches for “Dad Hats”. The first time I saw it, I remember...
View ArticleCustom logo apparel and promotional products – Does it work, and does it matter?
“I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life until then.” – Warren Buffett Many, many potential customers see our ads. Many come to our site. When on our site, a lot wonder, “If I...
View ArticleWhat’s Love Got to do With It? Love, Relationships and Valentine’s Day.
“If music be the fruit of love, play on!” – Shakespeare The whole team has been asking, what are you going to write about for Valentine’s Day? I wanted to talk about my first relationship; and how it...
View ArticleNice Guys Finish Last – Winning and Losing – Sports and Business.
I was recently having dinner with my son’s basketball coach and the question came up, “What’s the difference between sports and business?” So, I’m writing this on Super Bowl Sunday. It’s a day when not...
View ArticleLearning Opportunities
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” – Tom Watson, founder of IBM A budding entrepreneur asks, “What are some of your favorite tools that you use to help you run...
View ArticleFriday Afternoon Food Talk!
Lowcountry and beyond… How often have your best relationships been forged over something as common as food or the love of something so similar? We may live far apart and have different stories, but our...
View ArticleQueensboro Customer Spotlight: Sharing Our Very Best With The World!
Our Customer Spotlight is Our Chance To Shine A Light On Some of Our Employees’ Favorite Businesses. This week’s customer does serious accounting work…even if they aren’t always taking themselves...
View ArticleQueensboro Customer Spotlight: Sharing Our Very Best With The World!
Our Customer Spotlight is Our Chance To Shine A Light On Some of Our Employees’ Favorite Businesses. This Week’s Customer Offers People a Place to Come Together and Celebrate Their Past and Look to...
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