WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Success in its highest and noblest form
calls for peace of mind, enjoyment, and happiness.
This comes only when you find the work that you like best.

If you enjoy what you do, you'll be successful.
If you don't enjoy what you do, you won't be successful.
Your success in any occupation depends on your enjoyment.
Loving your work will make all the difference.

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.
Your chances for success will be directly proportional
to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do.
If you have a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Work is reward, not punishment.

You don't pay the price for success.
You enjoy the price of success.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

©2004 by Max Steingart

THE QUOTES
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."
--Sir William Bragg

"The product can carry the message but not the other way around."
--Meghan Hubbs, Equal Exchange


THE QUESTIONS

Ask 'n Answer

Do your customer service policies and standards accurately reflect who you are?

What one thing can you change in your policies to put your customer service and who you are more in sync?


THE STATS

A cuppa joe now has social implications as well as lifestyle implications:
Americans drank $9 billion in gourmet coffee last year
That amounts to 535 million pounds of beans or nearly 20% of the U.S. coffee market.
Sales at Equal Exchange (whose coffee beans are all "fair trade") have grown an average of 30% per year.
This year Equal Exchange expects to top $15.5 million in sales or more than 4 million pounds of coffee (up from 25,000 pounds in 1986).
--Fast Company, December 2004

....................................................................................................

Boomers on the verge of retirement age--are not.
Many are reinventing themselves and opting for a new career.
31% of Boomers have gone into a new career.
Of these new-career Boomers, 10% have launched careers working in personal services--ranging from chefs and hairstylists to tax preparers and financial planners.
--American Demographics

From "Quick Bites," by Sam Geist. (800) 567-1861 http://www.samgeist.com