Tag: work

• No Regrets Monday- Your Life…Work?

  

  This is a series describing some of the regrets folks have shared during the last days of their lives.  The goal is NOT to add guilt to your life, but to allow you to take a look at where you are and take the opportunity to make changes.  I hope this effort will provide insight…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  January 11, 2021

  Change, Excellence, Legacy

  goals, opportunity, painful, recharge, refocus, regrets, relax, staycation, time off, vacation, work

• All In!

  

  Are you a better employee if you put in super long hours and spend most of your waking moments at the office?  Is this the best measure of your worth and your engagement? One of my mentors early in my career was always the first in the office in the morning and the last to…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  May 7, 2019

  Change, Strategy, Vision

  balance, Blogging, burnout, business, Divorce, judgement, late, lifestyle, work

• What are you living for?

  Kathy was browsing in a gift shop near our home last week and struck up a conversation with the lady clerk. This is not an uncommon thing for Kathy. She has a gift of being able to connect quickly with people. This lady was originally from Columbia (South America not South Carolina) and she has…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  June 12, 2017

  Focus, Relationships, Vision

  barns, Columbia, community, expectations, focus, Leadership development, lifestyle, priorities, work

• Five Tips For Parents (Without Time Machines)

  Gosh- if only we had a time machine. A place where you could go back in time and fix things that went wrong. I love some of the movies that do this. Back to the Future. Hot Tub Time Machine. Somewhere in Time. The Terminator. Go back and fix the wrong and change history. But…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  May 3, 2017

  Legacy, Strategy, Vision

  Books, chances, competition, faith, Family, grades, hard work, Leadership development, leadingbyserving, money, Parenting, school, self control, sports, structure, time machine, time travel, tips, Tradition, work

• Cleaning the Toilets

  There are always the unpleasant jobs. The jobs that don’t bring you any accolades. The ones that are not seen. The unpleasant jobs that have no reward. Who does those jobs? Few will do those jobs. I have been doing the tough jobs since my father taught me what work is really all about. The…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  September 8, 2015

  Attitude, Excellence, Vision

  caring, dirty, ego, jobs, talkers, thoughful, toilet cleaners, unnoticed, work

• 6 Ways to Build a Culture of Hard Work

  I was picking up mulch that was on sale at Home Depot last weekend and a gray haired man approached my truck for my order.  I told him forty bags and I asked him, “So where are the youngsters?”  He was obviously older and generally they have a cadre of young men who load mulch…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  March 20, 2015

  Attitude, Excellence, Focus

  Blogging, characters, clockwatcher, effort, experience, Honor, incentive, Laughter, leadingbyserving, lesson, mulch, personalities, quality, reward, teach, work