Archive for the Thought for the Weekend Category

“While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.” ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” ~Mother Teresa Today, I will be breaking bread with my fellow Rotarians. I recently decided to join Rotary International, the world’s largest service organization with 1.2 million members. In more than 34,000 clubs worldwide, members volunteer in communities at home and abroad to support education and job training, provide clean water, combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, and eradicate polio. I wanted to find

  here are many people familiar with the old adage: “You are what you eat!”, but these days, I’m starting to hear a new one:  “You are what you tweet!”     or a few years, Matchmaker has been registered with Facebook and Linked In and Twitter, but we haven’t been active users.  This week, however, we made the switch, updating our accounts to reflect our new name, Matchmaker Logistics, and pledging to become regular participants in these social media conversations.  getting ourselves ‘psyched up’ for this new venture, we stumbled across a great article in

What a difference a week can make. Last Friday, I was enjoying the pool during a family vacation in sunny Orlando, Florida. This Friday, not only is it the 13th, it’s also time to pay taxes! Talk about an unlucky weekend…. Although I’m generally not superstitious, I couldn’t help but wonder: “Is Friday the 13th really unlucky?” A little internet research led me to an article in the Huffington Post which highlights scientific studies that have been conducted to answer this very question. The article states that Dutch researchers looked at statistics from traffic

Greetings from Disneyworld! That’s right. This week, I’ve been on vacation with my family in Florida. With 8-year-old and 3-year-old daughters, my wife and I thought it was the perfect time to let our kids experience the wonder of the Magic Kingdom. But our kids decided to teach us a thing or two about magic instead. As a Type A personality, I envisioned early morning departures to the park with Fast Passes in hand and a well-planned strategy in mind to maximize each minute and decrease our cost per ride. Our kids didn’t see

Do you remember back in 1983 when Burger King introduced the “Left-Hander Whopper”?  The burger, rolled out by the famous fast-food chain, was “re-designed to fit more comfortably in the left hand.” How did Burger King achieve this feat? All of the condiments on the Left-Hander Whopper were rotated 180 degrees, thereby redistributing the weight of the sandwich so that the bulk of the ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, tomato and lettuce skewed to the left. Burger King insisted that this revolutionary new burger would result in fewer condiment ‘spills’ for left-handed hamburger lovers. The burger

We’ve been fortunate to enjoy an exceptionally mild winter in North Carolina this year.  But this week, Spring really sprung.  The azaleas and the dogwoods are blooming; the grass is regaining its color; and leaves are budding on all of the trees.  I have to admit that the explosion of flowers combined with sunny days and ‘perfect’ temperatures, have given me a serious case of Spring Fever. Yet, I haven’t given in to Mother Nature’s temptations.  I’ve remained at my desk, in my office, working hard.  Years ago, when I was a high school

At Matchmaker Logistics, we’ve all decided that St. Patrick’s Day is one of the best holidays ever–beer, friends, drinking toasts, and more beer. No stress, no pressure, just good times and good music. So today, we celebrate with a few of our favorite Irish toasts and our very own leprechaun-inspired video (double click on the photo and wait for video to load): As you slide down the banisters of life may the splinters never point the wrong way. May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my Grandmother’s teeth. May the

This week Mary has been on the road making sales calls to present our new Quote and Ship LTL software package.  We’ve been very excited about this new product and we were anxious to see how it would be received. Things couldn’t have gone better: Mary called me after each sales visit to tell me how much she liked the customers and how they wanted to use the new product.  After setting up the new software for our customers, I called each of them to let them know they were good to go.  Each

This Sunday marks the 84th Academy Awards. It’s strange, isn’t it? Highly paid actors and directors and composers get annual recognition for the work that they do, yet so many of us have ‘thankless’ jobs. How many times do dishwashers, window cleaners, receptionists, payroll clerks, trash collectors, restaurant bussers, airplane dispatchers or accountants gets nominated for their great work? Not often enough. Yet, earlier this week, Michael Meyers of Bella Transport Inc., made our A/P Rep, Aaron, feel like Hollywood royalty when he sent this email: “Just wanted to let you know how much