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7 hours, 28 minutes ago
Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20100901/NEWS07/100909984/10-things-to-do-this-weekend
10 hours, 57 minutes ago
Dinner pancakes? Sounds fun. Invent your own. For the adults..a ni...
12 hours, 48 minutes ago
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13 hours, 41 minutes ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."
Philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Your action for today is to call a friend and share some good new...
6 days, 5 hours ago
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” —Harold Wilson
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can b...
6 days, 14 hours ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Of course you keep making the same mistakes; it is too hard to think of new ones every day."
Relationship Therapist and Author, Dr. Jeffrey Low
Your action f...
1 week ago
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20100825/NEWS07/100829930/10-things-to-do-this-weekend
If you know of other Chicagoland happenings/events occuring over the coming weekend and want to let...
1 week ago
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1 week ago
I had my kitchen remodeled last year. My folks just completed their's. Great added value, especially because we took extra care in selecting products and competively priced tradesmen.
1 week ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"What poison is to food, self-pity is to life."
Sociologist, Oliver C. Wilson
Your action for today is to see if you have been feeling sorry for yourself. If ...
1 week, 1 day ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them."
An Unknown Author
Your action for today is to change your pe...
1 week, 2 days ago
SLOW DOWN. Protect our future leaders. REMEMBER...In Illinois it is illegal to text and/or use hand-held cell/teles within designated school zones.
1 week, 2 days ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"To get what we've never had, we must do what we've never done."
An Unknown Author
Your action for today is to plan on going somewhere within the next 12 mont...
1 week, 3 days ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"If you know what to do to reach your goal, it's not a big enough goal."
Author and Speaker, Bob Proctor
Your action for today is to look at a goal you have a...
1 week, 5 days ago
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet las year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone netwo...
1 week, 6 days ago
If you know of other Chicagoland happenings/events occuring over the coming weekend and want to let my F/b following know of them,please post them here with any event link.
1 week, 6 days ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"The best way out is always through."
Poet, Robert Frost
Your action for today is to see if you are procrastinating on a project and take a small step towards...
2 weeks ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
Author, Catherine Aird
Your action for today is to reflect on what kind of e...
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital."
Author, Warren G. Bennis
Your action for today is to think of a change you could make that woul...
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do."
Actress, Whoopi Goldberg
Your action for today is to attempt to do something regardless of whether y...
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it."
Benjamin Franklin
Your action for today is to take the advice you are offering others and use it for yourse...
2 weeks, 6 days ago
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20100811/NEWS07/100819968/10-things-to-do-this-weekend
If you know of other Chicagoland happenings/events occuring over the coming weekend and want to ...
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."
Writer, Elizabeth Bibesco
Your action for today is to send a thank you card ...
3 weeks ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill
Your action for today is to make a c...
3 weeks ago
http://realestate.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=20823708
3 weeks, 1 day ago
I especially like this one and plan to take action. Hope you do, as well!
3 weeks, 2 days ago
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3 weeks, 3 days ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"There are three kinds of people in this world - those that make it happen, those that watch it happen and those that wonder what in the heck happened."
Philos...
3 weeks, 6 days ago
And..... "THEY" say, "You can't go back." DAMN! Well...maybe just for these few minutes you can transcend and ENJOY the journey. Have a rockin good weekend, y'al!
4 weeks ago
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20100804/NEWS07/100809947/10-things-to-do-this-weekend
4 weeks ago
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"As a leader, your word is only as good as your last promise kept or broken."
Author and Speaker, BJ Gallagher
Your action for today is to pay attention to th...
on 08/03/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."
Authors, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Your action for today is to ask your spouse or boss what is one thing the...
on 08/02/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
Former First Lady, Martha Washington
Your action for today is to be t...
on 07/28/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"You've got to ask. Asking is in my opinion, the world's most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness."
Self-made Multimillionaire and Philanthr...
on 07/27/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"It is always too soon to quit."
Author, Norman Vincent Peale
Your action for today is to see if there is something you are considering quitting and put in do...
on 07/23/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"None of us can change our yesterdays, but all of us can change our tomorrows."
General, Colin Powell
Your action for today is to pick something you can do be...
on 07/22/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."
Poet and Author, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your action for today is to see if there is ...
on 07/21/10
http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/fans-beat-heat-00000000038091/index.html?xid=df-07-21-2010
on 07/21/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours."
Author, Richard Bach
Your action for today is to question one of the limitations you think you hav...
on 07/20/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"He who receives a gift doesn't measure it."
African Proverb
Your action for today is to spend a few minutes reflecting on some of the gifts you have in your ...
on 07/19/10
http://www.realtor.com/home-garden/decorate/interiors/buildingthebettermancave.aspx
on 07/15/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things."
18th Century Writer, Madame Swetchine
Your action for today is to show some kindness for a loved...
on 07/13/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
" Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes."
Cleric and Writer, Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Your action for today is to imagine that today is your first time...
on 07/12/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people."
Author, Mike Murdock
Your action for today is to make a list of the three people with whom yo...
on 07/09/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
International Explorer, Jacques ...
on 07/09/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
International Explorer, Jacques ...
on 07/08/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"You are a living magnet. What you attract in your life is in perfect harmony with your dominant thoughts."
Author, Brian Tracy
Your action for today is to...
on 07/07/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."
Golfer, Arnold Palmer
Your action for today is to see if you...
on 07/06/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best."
College Basketball Coach, John Wooden
Your action for today is to reflect on your own definition of s...
on 07/05/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts will take you."
Author, James Allen
Your action for today is to ...
on 07/02/10
While we certainly have our problems and major issues, as citiizens of a democracy, we are are, indeed, among the most fortunate on earth.
“All the great things are simple, and many can be exp...
on 07/01/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
Educator and Author, Laurence J. Peter
Your action for today is...
on 06/30/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"The best mind-altering drug is truth."
Actress, Lilly Tomlin
Your action for today is to see if you can go the whole day saying everything you mean and meani...
on 06/29/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have, than to have things I am not able to appreciate."
Writer and Philosopher, Elbert Hubbard
Your a...
on 06/28/10
Dear Gregg,
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"People are as happy as they choose to be."
Henry Ford
Your action for today is to make a conscious choice to be happy throughout the day.
Have ...
on 06/25/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed."
Author, Samuel Johnson
Your action for today is to reflect on a favorite book or story and ...
on 06/24/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
Editor, Walter Anderson
Your...
on 06/23/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"There aren't any rules to success that will work unless you do."
An Unknown Author
Your action for today is to put in a little extra effort in an area where ...
on 06/22/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Ability is what you're capable of, motivation determines what you do and attitude determines how well you do it."
College Football Coach, Lou Holtz
Your acti...
on 06/21/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
Businessman, Harold Geneen
Your action for today is to volunteer to do something...
on 06/18/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Author, Washington Irving
Your action for today is to be kind...
on 06/17/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"It's not about what happens. It's about perspective. I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking."
Author, Mic...
on 06/16/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"If you are looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem."
An Unknown Author
Your action for today is to look at a problem you are facing and see if ...
on 06/11/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site."
Cartoonist, Sydney Harris
Your action for today is to see if there is ...
on 06/08/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
Mahatma Gandhi
Your action for today is to look at yo...
on 06/02/10
"Truth, like surgery, may hurt. But it cures."
Writer, Han Suyin
Your action for today is to see if you are avoiding telling someone the truth. What do you think it's costing you and them?
Have an...
on 05/26/10
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." -Art Linkletter
on 05/24/10
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after."
Writer and Poet, Oliver Goldsmith
Your action for today is to pick someone who has traits you admire and re...
on 05/20/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong."
Author, Norman Vincent Peale
Your action for today is to take an act...
on 05/19/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Look for every opportunity to go the extra mile. That's how you become extra special and extra successful."
Writer, Steve Ventura
Your action for today is to...
on 05/13/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot... and missed. I've failed ov...
on 05/12/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'"
Writer, H. Jackson Brown
Your action for today is to take one of the things yo...
on 05/10/10
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” –Abe Lincoln
on 05/10/10
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicagos-best/2010/05/chicagos-best-sandwiches.html
on 05/10/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"A year from now you will wish you had started today."
Community Activist, Karen Lamb
Your action for today is to pick one of the things on your wish list and...
on 05/09/10
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Honore de Balzac, author
on 05/06/10
For an especially deserving mother, especially as she puts up with me!
on 05/06/10
http://onewithnow.com/2010/04/how-to-find-clarity-and-focus-in-the-age-of-distraction/
on 05/05/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
Professor, Robert E. Osborn
Your action for today is to engage in...
on 05/04/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Managing to have a sense of humor makes it much easier to manage people."
Psychologist, Steve Wilson
Your action for today is to have a good laugh about one ...
on 04/30/10
http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=16032312
on 04/29/10
Help your clients keep cool by reminding them to conduct annual maintenance on their air conditioning units before the heat hits this summer! Here are a few things that most homeowners can do t...
on 04/29/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"You're one connection away from being able to change your life."
Author, Larry Bennett
Your action for today is to identify three people you want to meet tha...
on 04/23/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven."
Poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Your action for today is to think of something you've b...
on 04/22/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Maybe if we did a better job of listening, history wouldn't repeat itself."
An Unknown Author
Your action for today is to actively listen to your spouse, fri...
on 04/21/10
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Also, if we have yet to connect on Linkedin, let's do it. http://www.Linkedin.com/in/GreggSlapak
on 04/21/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
Radio and TV Personality, Art Linkletter
Your action for today is to take ...
on 04/20/10
Albeit a bit rocky, nonetheless heavenly... http://www.allproudamericans.com/grand-canyon-flyby.html
on 04/20/10
Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can't, you are right."
Henry Ford
Your action for today is to identify something that you have accomplished where others doubted that you would.
...on 04/18/10
http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=23894060
on 04/17/10
Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless." Kahlil Gibran
on 04/16/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
Broadcaster and Television Producer, H...
on 04/14/10
http://rismedia.com/2010-04-13/credit-card-act-of-2009-how-to-use-the-new-rules-to-your-advantage/
on 04/14/10
"The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there."
An Unknown Author
Your action for today is to think about one of your greatest achievements and reflect on what it took for you to get there.
Ha...
on 04/13/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
Humorist, Josh Billings
Your action for today is to identify an instan...
on 04/12/10
WARNING TO ALL: THERE IS A VIRUS SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE ON FB. DO NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS THAT ASK YOU TO WATCH A VIDEO ON YOU -TUBE. SNOPES JUST CONFIRMED. IT IS A TROJAN WOR...
on 04/12/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
Former Pitcher, Vernon Sanders Law
Your action for today is to think o...
on 04/09/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule."
Author, Charles Osgood
Your action for today is to look for a recen...
on 04/08/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"We too often love things and use people when we should use things and love people."
An Unknown Author
Your action for today is to contact a friend or family ...
on 04/07/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
Writer, James Joyce
Your action for today is to think of a recent mistake you've made and see what you discover...
on 04/06/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
Broadcaster, Walter Cronkite
Your action for today is to revisit a situation where you made some con...
on 04/05/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Here's the key to being free from the stranglehold of past failures and mistakes: learn the lesson and forget the details."
An Unknown Author
Your action for...
on 04/04/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8AvEczTqe4 On the avenue, Fifth Avenue. Yep, later this day I will be a hoppin from my nest in historic downtown Wheaton to friend Pat's for a festive gathering of ...
on 04/03/10
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on 04/02/10
No matter your private religious and/or spiritual beliefs, I HOPE with HOPE you will enjoy this "amazing" rendition of "Amazing Grace". Happy Easter, Passover and spring in general. Finally, my abs...
on 04/02/10
Great news! I took my parents to the famed Pump Room, ( ladedahh) many years ago. We were seated right next to "Kups", (Irv Kupicent,(rip) famous for decades Chicago reporter/broadcaster) where onl...
on 04/02/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice."
An Unknown Author
Your action for today is to write a thank you card or note to someone.
H...
on 04/01/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
Clergyman, Peter Marshall
Your action for today is to do something that helps the environment, such as...
on 03/30/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
McDonald's Founder, Ray Kroc
Your action for today is to think of an area in your life...
on 03/29/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"If you can't help it, don't think about it."
Actor, Carmel Myers
Your action for today is to take a situation that has you worried. See if there is some acti...
on 03/28/10
I have one such report, but shall not share in print. Suffice it to say it would make these accounts be of the norm.
http://therealdeal.com/miami/articles/realtors-see-the-strangest-things-at-ope...
on 03/26/10
http://gslapak.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/home-price-index-january-2010/
on 03/25/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers
Your action for today is to take one of your "to-do's" and either...
on 03/24/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life is: could have, might have and should have."
Author, Louis E. Boon...
on 03/23/10
| “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” |
| ― Alice Walker |
on 03/23/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world."
An Unknown Author
Your action for today is to see if there is someone who wh...
on 03/22/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln
Your action for today is to review a recent ...
on 03/19/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unh...
on 03/18/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."
Futurist, Alvin Toffler
You...
on 03/17/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Reality is above all else a variable and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitme...
on 03/16/10
A US police officer was on exchange in County Tipperary in Ireland with the Garda as part of a new law enforcement program between the two countries. One day the sergeant informed him they’d be sto...
on 03/16/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Every now and then go away--for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer."
Leonardo DaVinci
Your action for today is to schedule on your c...
on 03/15/10
The top 10 signs you’re being stalked by a leprechaun:
10. Generic-looking green transit van with darkened windows parked across the road with “I brake for imps” bumper sticker.
9. Every time you...
on 03/15/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"The person who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the person who can't read."
Writer, Mark Twain
Your action for today is to spend 15 minutes read...
on 03/14/10
http://rismedia.com/2010-03-14/5-popular-kitchen-and-bathroom-upgrades/
on 03/12/10
Daylight Saving Time Begins March 14
Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. March 14, 2010. When you change your clocks ahead one hour, the Wheaton Fire Department encourages you to change the batt...
on 03/12/10
Here's your "QuoteAction" of the day:
"Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you."
American Writer and Lecturer, Dale Carnegie
Your action for today is to see if you c...
on 03/10/10
...on having received your 60-year pin from the IBEW this evening on almost the eve of your 84th birthday!
on 03/10/10
This is a fun tongue-n-cheek article by Steve dahl of the Chicago Tribune.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-live-0310-steve-dahl-20100310,0,6780018.column
on 03/10/10
http://www.dupageforest.com/NewsReleases/A_New_Lake_and_a_Kids_Event_for_Spring_Trout_Season.html
on 09/22/09
... IN WISHING MY GREAT, (and he is a GREAT kid) NEPHEW #six on October 6!





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