The most successful people and businesses demonstrate similar habits and best practices when it comes to achieving goals. One of the most important similarities is self-honesty. This is all about setting reasonable goals and having metrics in place to keep track of progress towards success. There is much research on this subject and the numbers […]

This is a very hectic time for everyone.. Even last-minute shoppers are getting started in this timeframe, families are finalizing plans, many workers are trying to figure out how to use two + weeks of remaining vacation time yet still accomplish what needs to be done at work.. And so I hope you will take […]

‘Tis the season for celebrating and for a lot of preparation going into, and for celebrations that remind us the real meaning of this Holiday season -regardless of religious preference. That is absolutely a learned – and a for most a teachable – true gift and an Art Form when done properly: Entertaining guests. This […]

The title of this week’s blog reflects shopping days until Christmas now, and even though the Holiday Season is well underway, with no snow on the ground and no appreciable frost in the ground, our mild fall continues here in the great Maine Lakes Region. Christmas lights are out, up, and shining nightly. Shopping is […]

This fall has been very fair from an unseasonably warm weather perspective. We started this weekend with temperatures Friday in the low 60’s, very rare for the last few days of November.  Just last year at this time we had lasting snow and morning temperatures in the zero to 5 degree range. What a difference […]

What do you know about Thanksgiving in addition to eating turkey with all the fixings, and sharing time with family and loved ones, watching the parade, enjoying the gathering, and whatever traditions you may enjoy for the rest of the day:  Watching football, getting out and playing some of your own, maybe sharing a new […]

With the local and regional craft fairs featuring many Made In Maine products in full swing, Thanksgiving can not be far behind. With this weekend marking 1/2 of November behind us already, most of us have 8 work days prior to the first big gathering of family and friends around tables filled with Turkey, fixings, […]

Our 1st full weekend in November in the Maine Lakes Region finds the weather unseasonably warm. Temperatures still hovering around 70° late into the evening is certainly both a rarity, and delightful. Many years we have had either a first snowfall, or a snowstorm that has lasted through the winter season by this timeframe. And […]

Please be careful in our Maine Lakes Region this Saturday afternoon and evening as many young-at-heart Ghouls and Goblins, Witches and Warlocks will be out “Trick Or Treating” so be safe and have great fun this Halloween. When you arrive home, you can proactively change all of your clocks to reflect the correct time as […]

Next Saturday ends the month of October with Sunday being November 1st. Do not forget to have candy on hand if you are going to be home next Saturday late afternoon and early evening as the Trick or Treaters will be out for Halloween. Next Saturday evening will also be a good time to rest […]