Monday, January 28, 2013

Trust

Some days you need to put your trust in someone else's hands, whether that is on an airboat going down the river in the winter, or handing off the daily activities to your trusted employees.  Trust.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Sunday Sky




Sometimes, words fail.  Clouds above and below, the land below a map of farms and highways.
Awesome view !




Friday, December 28, 2012

flying . . .





Recently I completed my training for my pilots license.
What started as mere fascination and a hobby, quickly become a passion.
Never in a million years could I have imagined myself as a pilot, never did I dare to dream that BIG.  Until I did !
The endless hours of flight training, with my instructor and flying solo, studying the flight manuals every night for 3 or 4 hours over the last year, and the nerve-rattling tests - ALL more than worth it.
Flying is one of the most amazingly coolest things ever.
I am a pilot.
Dream Big, work hard, follow your passion.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Living the dream ,,,,














Some days we work, some days we play. 

Blue sky overhead 
and 
a good dog : 
Living the Dream !

Saturday, November 3, 2012

rustaki culliganolopolis
















Sometimes in life you need to provide your own entertainment …

We are waiting at the beautiful World Theatre in Kearney to see
Costaki Economopoulos - a really funny comedian
On the stage -
two microphones, one stool
Looks like maybe it's a politician =
Talking out both sides of his mouth !
Ba-dum-ching !!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Watching Out for the Foul Balls










So, today I volunteered to help out during the Nebraska High School Softball Tournament here in Hastings. Two hours into helping out, I take a break and go watch a little softball and as luck would have it, there is a foul ball from a distant field and no one yells "Heads up", and I get hit in the head. 
Hard.
I finish my shift two hours later,
and realize I had peed myself - ( I'm kidding ).

So I think (concussion withstanding) the point I get from all this is :  
In business we can't just be thinking about today.  We need to be thinking about  what we should be doing tomorrow.  It's important to be looking out for the next thing that is going to bean you on the head.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Fairs & Summer
















Days are getting cooler and our County and State Fair season is long over.
But I am already looking forward to next year  and our days spent at our Culligan booth :
greeting cuurent customers, making new ones
and tying ballon animals for hundreds of kids -  it's a LOT of fun.
Seems like a huge time committment from the outside, but you can't measure the impact
of showing up in our local communities and making those connections.
It's the extra mile.  Do you go the extra mile ?