{"id":1942,"date":"2007-09-18T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2007-09-18T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T15:32:30","slug":"chicken-soup-for-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1942\/chicken-soup-for-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Soup for Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chicken-soup.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/chicken-soup.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>April Groves shared <a href=\"http:\/\/aprilgroves.com\/makinglifeworkforyou\/2007\/09\/13\/the-day-planned-by-clinque\/\">her thoughts<\/a> on how mundane tasks often tend to produce seemingly\u00a0unrelated benefits. I love this post &#8211; Whether, as April suggests, it is the ordinary act of house cleaning (okay, not so ordinary in my house) which inspires healthy eating or the simple ritual of applying make-up which increases productivity, random tasks can work to produce surprising results. (I can&#8217;t leave this last &#8220;make-up thing&#8221; without warning April that when her odometer nears a significant roll-over milestone as mine is, the task of &#8220;putting on one&#8217;s face&#8221; becomes about as simple as engineering a space station).<\/p>\n<p>April is right, though\u00a0&#8211; We needn&#8217;t surrender our lives and our work to a constant state of entropy. And yes, you naysayers, there is a real estate connection in all of this. I think it is safe to say that we all from time to time find ourselves either on a low boil or losing steam. We all\u00a0periodically risk burn-out. \u00a0Let&#8217;s call it Business Block, and sometimes the answer isn&#8217;t to do more of what got you into this place, but to recognize your motivating triggers. I have my own mechanisms for harnessing the energy to refocus.\u00a0 I make chicken soup &#8211; Using the Suzuki method. No defined recipe, but just a lot of seemingly unrelated stuff from the pantry\u00a0which <em>sounds<\/em> good and I intuitively know will make me hungry again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dress for Success<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I remember my elementary school dress code. Skirts or dresses\u00a0for the girls were required. The argument was that we would be more inclined to learn if we dressed the part; sloppy appearances would translate to sloppy attitudes and shorter attention spans. Today, many light years later, this is just silly. Blue jeans don&#8217;t symbolize a day off &#8211; Ask any Microsoft employee.\u00a0For me, they symbolize &#8220;no appointments&#8221; and therefore a &#8220;back office day&#8221;. My most productive back office days come courtesy of Abercrombie and Fitch. Unfortunately, Steve&#8217;s &#8220;back office day&#8221; uniform involves a pair of hideous day-glo orange shorts which, ironically, work the same magic for me. They send me running for the office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blogging<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some days there is just no wind in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1942\/chicken-soup-for-your-business\/#more-1942\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Groves shared her thoughts on how mundane tasks often tend to produce seemingly\u00a0unrelated benefits. I love this post &#8211; Whether, as April suggests, it is the ordinary act of house cleaning (okay, not so ordinary in my house) which inspires healthy eating or the simple ritual of applying make-up which increases productivity, random tasks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6854,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6854\/some-ugly-questions-about-that-15000-home-buyers-tax-credit\/","url_meta":{"origin":1942,"position":0},"title":"Some ugly questions about that $15,000 home-buyers tax credit&#8230;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I let the hoopla over the $15,000 tax credit for home-buyers of all incomes slide last week. 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