The time to check your order is when you are at the window. Once you drive away, you may be stuck with sugar (yuk!) in your non-fat iced latte and there is nothing you can do about it except get back in line and who’s going to do that?
So take a minute and do the quaility check in that one and only window of opportunity.
I have learned that one should NEVER use a dishtowel as a potholder! It can touch the over burner element and catch on fire! As in big orange flames! And then one has to throw it in the sink and drown it with the faucet! And it’s really scary!
This is related to my dad’s instruction to “always use the right tool for the job”.
Learn from this!
Is this a cool idea or what? A new business colleague of mine ALWAYS wears a wild Hawiian shirt on the way home from business trips. The whole team changed into play clothes for the journey but this guy does it up. They say this way they can find him in the airport, but I think it’s a great way to say “off duty!”
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau
as quoted by Jim Freedman
I learned that if you have a wireless router within 3 feet of a cable modem phone, you can get interence that you don’t hear but the other people hear. Very unprofessional.
And I have learned that Comcast can reset the phone circuit to stop calls from dropping – three in one day! VERY unprofessional.
And I have learned that letting the phone company run phones is probably a good idea and I will probably go back to Verizon.
From Susan O:
I’ve learned that napkins are no substitute for socks when you’re bowling!
Lava taught me this: When you need to make a choice, flip a coin. Then see if you like that answer. That will tell you what you really needed to chose in the first place.
I tried it today. I chose both.
The part about “a place for everything” is easy. It’s the other part that’s still a lesson for me. Put it back! The cover for the back of the car – put it back! The wallet that goes in the purse – put it back! The mp3 player that goes in the same purse – put it back! Otherwise, it’s just NOT gonna be there when you need it!
This one is from Martha Stewart:
“Nest a vase of flowers into a larger vase filled with candy hearts.”
Hey! I’m desperate for content and this one came on my Dove chocoloate! What can I say?
I have learned that if I don’t write my Lessons Learned down, then I don’t remember them and hence it’s difficult to learn from them!
Oh yeah… I have also learned that I have to write them down legibly. If I can’t read them it doesn’t count and it doesn’t work.
Jane's Lessons Learned 