Disneyland was built in 1955 in Anaheim, California in 366 days, from the first shovel of dirt to the first ticket sold. When Walt Disney was asked, "How did you get all this done in 366 days?" he answered, "We used every one of them."
Ever notice how some people seem to get so much done? Those [...]

 
by Mean Josephine
1.  Start your meetings exactly on time. Close the door at start time. Become known for it.
2. Never insult those present by saying, “Where is everybody? Is Sarah coming? Call Brad.”
Start if you have only one other person present (I know, I know, that’s really hard).
 
3.  Publish a concise agenda with internal start-and-end times [...]

 
Remember Gary Larson’s great cartoon: a jar of mayonnaise in a refrigerator wearing a burglar’s mask and pointing a gun at the other condiments? Its great caption "When mayonnaise goes bad" still makes me chuckle.
I watched a meeting "go bad" as the leader and the participants’ positions on a controversial issue became farther and farther [...]

Wifey ran into a light post and crunched the fender of her big ol’ sedan.
More than the ugly fender or cost and hassle of repair, she was worried about the reaction she might get 
from Hubby.
She started imagining what she wished he would say instead of what she feared he would say.
 
A brilliant idea struck when she backed into her garage (hiding [...]

 
Jan, the owner of Simon the Jack Russell Terrier, trained Simon to touch a bell with his paw when he wanted to go outside.
 
One evening, Simon waited till she sat down to dinner, then rang the bell. When Jan left her plate of warm, delicious food to open the door, Simon ran past her, jumped onto [...]