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What about you? Are you updated on your own vaccinations?

After you’ve looked into this vaccination matter with your own family and self, why not think about passing this information on to your customers and coworkers?

Really cool site with all the information you need to get started.

Send an electronic greeting card that conveys you care about their health and safety. A quick scroll through the pages here will give you a truck load of ideas.

Are you familiar with the term MRSA? It’s a term you might have heard on TV or maybe saw in a newspaper headline. I would bet the vast majority of people – like your customers, do not know exactly what it is. Send them a MRSA awareness greeting card. The cool thing about this is the card is brief and can be read in ten seconds. If your customer is aware of MRSA she hasn’t spent a lot of time on your communication. And it will register in the back of her mind that you care. If she isn’t aware of MRSA, there is a link in the card that will take her directly to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

Why provide information like this to your customers?

When you provide information you are in practice with the gift of giving. It feels great to give. You should do it because you care about others. A benefit to your gesture will be that you are becoming more valuable to both your customer and your employer.

Here is a link to Flu.gov, a governmental Web site with great info. Go here.

Here’s the deal, you can read up and inform yourself about swine flu. It’s good to be in the know about such things. But it is GREAT when you place other people in the know…like your customers.

Instead of just handing out your business card when you’ve completed a call, jot down a Web site (like one of the above), on your business card and when you hand the card to your customer, let him know about the info.

Ok, let’s play make believe for a minute. Pretend that at the start of every day you are given one thousand dollars  in one hundred dollar bills. It is your job to pass the bills out to your customers. After a couple of really positive reactions to your kind deeds, you begin to look forward to passing out more. And, you can hardly wait for the next day’s allotment of cash.

To a degree, this is how you’ll feel when you begin to pass out valuable information like links to swine flu info to your customers. And, you’ll notice yourself looking for other tidbits of value that you can pass out.

Because you do not want to let a good deed go unnoticed, make sure you give your manager a sample of whatever you’re passing out.

Over the years I’ve had the privilege of observing a technician’s artwork in action.  One skill that continues to blow me away is a part of troubleshooting.  In particular, when a technician encounters a difficult problem.  He rechecks his diagnostic work to that point, making sure he followed prescribed methods to that point.  His brain is smoking and he doesn’t want to let go of the problem – like a dog who won’t let go of a bone.  But experience kicks in.  He puts the tools down and backs away from his work.  He gets a cup of coffee or something cold to drink and then takes a breath.  Maybe he thinks about his family, maybe he thinks about that chopper he is building or maybe it’s an upcoming hunting trip.  After a bit he goes back to his work and many times the answer he is looking for is right there.

The process of taking a breath is also a way of maintaining safety on the job site.  Often times technicians get hurt when they press on.

There are more aspects involved in excellent troubleshooting procedures, but the ability to step away, take a breath and clear your head is one of the best.

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I was in the office early one Saturday morning when the company’s owner called, barely able to get these words out of his mouth.  Drugs and alcohol were involved.  Something began to claw its way out of my guts as I tried to make sense of what I’d just heard.  My first thought was of Bob’s wife and two young children.  My second thought was the gruesome manner in which Bob was killed.  He was thrown from his truck and ended up underneath it.  They should have had a closed casket ceremony at his funeral.

If you have a problem with drinking and or drugs, you know.  Deep down you know.  Eventually you are going to hurt yourself.  In the process you are going to hurt your friends and family.  You might hurt or even kill someone else.  If you do have a problem, you’re going to need help to overcome it.

If you have a problem or even suspect that you might, please visit this site for help.

I saw Bob’s wife and kids the morning after he was killed.  It was one of the most gut-wretching things I’ve ever witnessed.

Check out this information on dehydration provided by the Mayo Clinic.

Go here to calculate the amount of water that you should be drinking per day.

Take care of your body folks, it’s the only one you got.