Company’s coming: Liquor or scrubbing bubbles? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Isn’t it amazing how much your eyesight improves right before you have houseguests? There you are, happily living your life just fine among the piles of dirty laundry, heaps of clutter and assorted smudgy glasses. And then, for some.
[Read More]Business blunders of the bathrobe brigade By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Wouldn’t it be great to work from home? You could come and go as you pleased; you’d always be available for your family; you could work in your bathrobe. No boss to yank your chain, no office politics, nobody.
[Read More]Ego tips for the flawed and fabulous By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Have you ever noticed how some people can’t stand to be told they’re anything less than perfect? You offer them a simple suggestion on how they might improve, say, their communication skills, their driving, their eating habits or.
[Read More]Bellyachers Beware By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Do you ever feel like your life is nothing but one big, long to-do list? Remember when you were a kid, and you dreamed about growing up, and how you were going to do whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted? Well, how’s that.
[Read More]Behind the faade of the bragging bachelor By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I’ve just met the worst person in the world. Well, OK, I didn’t meet him, I just did a phone interview with him, and frankly I didn’t think he was that bad. Atlanta bachelor, John Fitzgerald Page was.
[Read More]Press 1 to be ignored in English By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Is customer service in America dead, or is it just sleeping? Or perhaps it’s moved to India and it’s hiding behind a voice mail menu? I doubt I’m the only one who’s noticed that the days when an.
[Read More]Me monologues and the lost art of conversation By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Have you ever had one of those one-way conversations? You know, the kind, where the other person yammers on and on about their life while you just smile and nod? It’s amazing how many times you can.
[Read More]Feathers, Fathers and Unforeseen Favors By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Men: Does taking your kids to the fair, or giving them a bath or going to a Cub Scout meeting count as a favor for your wife? Well, sort of. It’s an odd paradox; every woman within a five-mile radius.
[Read More]The soul-sucking grind of frequent flying By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Ahh, the glamorous life of a business traveler. Winging your way from one city to the next, whisking through airports, your calf leather luggage slung casually over your shoulder. Los Angeles one day, New York the next, and you.
[Read More]A man, a van and an ill-conceived plan By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I come from a long line of do-it yourselfers. Yes sirree, there’s nothing my family likes better than tackling some big unwieldy project involving overly-optimistic plans, a completely unrealistic assessment of our own skills and a total.
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