Beating the Winter Blahs, Part 2: Refreshing Your Body

By claire |

Feeling down during the cold winter months is normal. But, there are ways that you can rejuvenate your body so that you feel fresh as a spring day. Eat Your Vegetables We all know that fruits and veggies are good for us, but here are a few ways to take your fruits and veggies, and [...]


Remaking America: The Obama-Biden Plan for Small Businesses

By perksconsulting |

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress [...]


Remaking America: Karen Gordon Mills, New SBA Administrator

By perksconsulting |

“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned… it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor — who have carried us up the long, rugged path toward prosperity [...]


Remaking America: The Economic Recovery Plan

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The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. -Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, [...]


Escaping the Crisis

By claire |

With Inauguration Day looming, there has been much debate about President-Elect Barack Obama’s bold new Economic Recovery Plan. Many people think that the plan is too bold given the amount of tax payer money that has been laid out by the Bush Administration. Yet, there are others who believe that this new stimulus may not [...]


Are you excited for CHANGE? 5 How to tips to implement change now!

By perksconsulting |

The glitz, glamour, and excitement of the new year are beginning to wear off. But with the inauguration of president elect Barack Obama just days away there is much excitement for change. Harness this excitement for your professional gain. What changes are you making for the new year? If you have change initiatives in place, [...]


Have you cleaned out your professional closet?

By perksconsulting |

And I don’t mean your office supply cabinet or your ever expanding file cabinet. Have you taken stock of what worked in 2008? If not, there’s no better time than the new year! As you are making your personal resolutions, and setting your professional agenda for the year dig beyond the surface to determine what [...]