“Take ownership in everything you do. The job title isn’t what gets you there; your ability to problem-solve based on real, firsthand knowledge is.” —Charles de Lisle
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging”, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
After losing my husband, I really needed to find purpose in life again. After much thought of various things I could do, I decided that ‘decluttering’ my home would keep me busy during the winter months until Spring when I could get outside to work my garden. I decided to start in the basement where I had stored many things that I no longer needed. I packed a lot in my car and took them to a place nearby where they help those who are less fortunate and could use what I gave them. I then got busy cleaning out the many files we gathered and threw away and shredded a ton of papers. It is a good feeling to be able to purge. You just need a plan, some cardboard boxes marked ‘throw away’, ‘donate” and ‘keep’.
“Dennis Johnson was a wonderful executive I worked with at Showtime. He would always tell me, ‘Don’t let other people make their emergency your emergency.’ Because of the large sums of money involved in the entertainment business, the stakes are high. People try to impose their anxieties on you, but I do my best to stay focused on my own agenda. I’m interested in amplifying the stories of marginalized communities. I manage my business my way.” -Pearlena Igbokwe
“One of my mentors told me to treat every task — every deadline, every phone call, every relationship — with a sense of urgency. This inevitably translates to care, attention, and quality. This has helped Reservoir close deals and beat out competitors time and time again. Early on, it was a challenge to ignore negative forecasts, but we continued buying high-quality assets. In retrospect, we only should have executed more deals.”Golnar Khosrowshahi;
When I was 8, my parents’ arranged marriage dissolved. My mother, Mei-Lin, moved to California and into the background of my life. When I was 32, she died of lung cancer, two days before Mother’s Day. Never a smoker, but always an optimist, she passed down a magpie assortment of charms: a smiling ceramic pig, a penny from the year I started college and winning scratch-off tickets she had never cashed in — paper proof of her good fortune worth far more than $20. Now, even when it seems that luck has left, her talismans remind me to believe. — Jean Huang
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
In the first three days of January 2024, I removed all the books from my home library and gave all the shelves a good dusting. While cleaning, reorganizing, and inventorying (872 books), I found myself setting books I wanted to read aside into a pile. I was really going to read them (was I making a New Year’s resolution?). With the shelves newly organized, I pulled the first book off the stack; it was The Battle for Las Vegas The Law vs. The Mob by Dennis N. Griffin.
This page turner was recommended by a Vegas Big Bus tour guide as we passed the Mob Museum. Countless Vegas trips later, I still hadn’t read the book or gone to the Mob Museum or the Neon Museum. I finally read the book, I enjoyed it because despite watching reruns of Vegas with the late Robert Ulrich, this is a world beyond my imagination. The perfect summary of this book can be found on page 208 “From the perspective of a reporter covering FBI and IRS raids and countless court hearings, that period was one great news story after another. Murder, bookmaking, prostitution, burglary, home invasions, extortion, fencing, stolen, jewelry”.
If you don’t have time to read the book, I will tell you what the author says at the end: watch the movie Casino. I watched it, and the cast (Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles, Kevin Pollak, and James Woods)is amazing, but it probably goes without saying it’s not as good as the book. I am now excited for my next trip to Vegas, to not only check out the museums, but to take part in some of the Home + History Las Vegas tours.
