A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. Proverbs 1:5 (NKJV)
In other words, you are one wise guy if you learn from others. I think we often think it shows weakness to seek others advice rather than figuring things out on our own. Tell the truth, when you get lost is it hard to stop and ask directions…and even harder to ask your spouse if they know how to get to wherever? Or do you gladly take advice from others? To take advice I have to first recognize I don’t know it all. In other words I have to swallow my pride and admit I could actually learn from another.
Have you ever been working through logistics with a co-worker or your spouse and you both think your method makes the most sense? So then you fight over which method to employ rather than realizing, it doesn’t really matter which way we do it, either way will get the job done. It is kinda crazy how much time can be wasted on how to do something when if one had just backed down, the job would have been completed already.
I have 3 main mentors that have helped me a lot in business, in spiritual struggle as well as life in general. I interviewed them and am in the process of trying to get the tapes into a written form so I can offer an ebook of some of the simple yet life transforming advice they gave me. I have benefited greatly from their wisdom and from reading a bit from Proverbs regularily. If you’ve never tapped into the wisdom of the book of Proverbs in the Bible you are missing out. It has 31 chapters, so you can get a chapter full of wisdom every day of the month.
Start this week out wise.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.justintimefreight.com
Beat Time Wasters
I appreciated this article I found on aol. To best use your time figure out when you do your best work. I know I am most productive early…sometimes like really early. My peeps enjoy my 3 a.m. emails.
Get a Life!
Beat Those Time-Wasters at Work
By M. WOLFE
There’s the Monday Blues. Wednesday is hump day. Then TGIF! This cycle we call the workweek shapes our lives. But, what we don’t finish during the week, we carry home with us in the form of stress. How do you stay productive throughout the week while reducing your stress level? How can you leave work on Friday energized for the weekend? Some say time is money. It’s also your life. And time management is key to being in control of your own happiness.
Terrific Tuesdays
On which days of the week are you at your best? Typically, we don’t think much about plain old Tuesday, but, according to an Accountemps survey, Tuesday between 10 A.M. and noon is considered to be the peak of our productivity. Monday was the second most popular day for people feeling at the top of the game. According to Max Messmer, Accountemps chairman and author of Managing your Career for Dummies, “Tuesday serves as a catch-up day after the weekend and many regularly scheduled meetings occur on that day, which may decrease the time available to complete tasks.” Most view Tuesdays as an opportunity to focus their efforts and establish momentum for the week.”
Find Your Rhythm
Are you the first one in the office in the morning? Or does the morning bird annoy you? Do you feel refreshed after lunch, or fall asleep? Learning your own personal “power hours” is essential. Also, be sensitive to how your peak performance times mesh with others’. Whether it’s asking for a raise or sharing your thoughts for increasing your company’s bottom line, timing is everything. Use down times to your advantage. When you’re on slow mode, doing tasks that take less brain-power is a good use of time. Professional athletes know this. No runner can sprint for long periods of time. The longer you work without a break, the less efficient you become. When you’re very tired, you may not even realize it and errors creep into your work. When totally exhausted a nap might be your best strategy. Research shows that a quick 20-minute “power nap” increases productivity.
More tomorrow…
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.brooketraining.com
Get a Life!
Beat Those Time-Wasters at Work
By M. WOLFE
There’s the Monday Blues. Wednesday is hump day. Then TGIF! This cycle we call the workweek shapes our lives. But, what we don’t finish during the week, we carry home with us in the form of stress. How do you stay productive throughout the week while reducing your stress level? How can you leave work on Friday energized for the weekend? Some say time is money. It’s also your life. And time management is key to being in control of your own happiness.
Terrific Tuesdays
On which days of the week are you at your best? Typically, we don’t think much about plain old Tuesday, but, according to an Accountemps survey, Tuesday between 10 A.M. and noon is considered to be the peak of our productivity. Monday was the second most popular day for people feeling at the top of the game. According to Max Messmer, Accountemps chairman and author of Managing your Career for Dummies, “Tuesday serves as a catch-up day after the weekend and many regularly scheduled meetings occur on that day, which may decrease the time available to complete tasks.” Most view Tuesdays as an opportunity to focus their efforts and establish momentum for the week.”
Find Your Rhythm
Are you the first one in the office in the morning? Or does the morning bird annoy you? Do you feel refreshed after lunch, or fall asleep? Learning your own personal “power hours” is essential. Also, be sensitive to how your peak performance times mesh with others’. Whether it’s asking for a raise or sharing your thoughts for increasing your company’s bottom line, timing is everything. Use down times to your advantage. When you’re on slow mode, doing tasks that take less brain-power is a good use of time. Professional athletes know this. No runner can sprint for long periods of time. The longer you work without a break, the less efficient you become. When you’re very tired, you may not even realize it and errors creep into your work. When totally exhausted a nap might be your best strategy. Research shows that a quick 20-minute “power nap” increases productivity.
More tomorrow…
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.brooketraining.com
Use Your GI Bill
Want to use your GI bill to train online to be a freight broker…or for another career? We are proud to be approved by the Department of Rehabilitative Services to train vets for a new career. Our course and others are offered through 400 colleges across the country.
Our online partner, Gaitlin Education recently received a letter from one of our honorable veterans asking if he could use his GI Bill to for online education. Here is the (edited) answer to his letter with lots of links that should be helpful to many:
Hello Mr. Campbell,
Thank you for your request to use GI Bill towards a GES online program. One of our partners, Excelsior College, has several Gatlin Education programs (including Freight Brokering) approved for GI Bill benefits, and I am sure they would be more than willing to help you with the benefit process… When using the GI Bill benefit, Excelsior has two options of fulltime attendance and half-time attendance. The administrators at the campus will provide you with the information needed to process your GI Bill. Thank you for your patience, and please do not hesitate to contact me again if you do not find what you are looking for.
Your requested program’s website is: https://www.excelsior.edu/Center_for_Professional_Development/Programs/Business/Freight%20Broker-Agent_Training
Freight Broker-Agent Training
Your favorite client – an up-and-coming fashion designer in New York City – needs to have a large order of samples in Los Angeles by Friday. She’s trusting that you’ll find the right carrier and meet her deadline; and you will. Matching shippers and carriers is what the freight broker business is all about. Adding great customer service? That’s what you’re all about.
According to Entrepreneur Magazine, the Freight Broker business is one of the top home businesses to own. It requires little upfront investment – all you need is a computer, telephone, and fax machine – and you have the potential for earning a six-figure income.
The school’s website is : https://www.excelsior.edu/portal/page/portal/Center_for_Professional_Development
For Gatlin Education Services loan and payment plan information view http://www.gatlineducation.com/loaninfo.htm or for information on our courses, please view www.gatlineducation.com
The administrators’ names are: Mr. Walsh, D. and Ms. Cooper, D.
Thank you for your interest.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.justintimefreight.com
Our online partner, Gaitlin Education recently received a letter from one of our honorable veterans asking if he could use his GI Bill to for online education. Here is the (edited) answer to his letter with lots of links that should be helpful to many:
Hello Mr. Campbell,
Thank you for your request to use GI Bill towards a GES online program. One of our partners, Excelsior College, has several Gatlin Education programs (including Freight Brokering) approved for GI Bill benefits, and I am sure they would be more than willing to help you with the benefit process… When using the GI Bill benefit, Excelsior has two options of fulltime attendance and half-time attendance. The administrators at the campus will provide you with the information needed to process your GI Bill. Thank you for your patience, and please do not hesitate to contact me again if you do not find what you are looking for.
Your requested program’s website is: https://www.excelsior.edu/Center_for_Professional_Development/Programs/Business/Freight%20Broker-Agent_Training
Freight Broker-Agent Training
Your favorite client – an up-and-coming fashion designer in New York City – needs to have a large order of samples in Los Angeles by Friday. She’s trusting that you’ll find the right carrier and meet her deadline; and you will. Matching shippers and carriers is what the freight broker business is all about. Adding great customer service? That’s what you’re all about.
According to Entrepreneur Magazine, the Freight Broker business is one of the top home businesses to own. It requires little upfront investment – all you need is a computer, telephone, and fax machine – and you have the potential for earning a six-figure income.
The school’s website is : https://www.excelsior.edu/portal/page/portal/Center_for_Professional_Development
For Gatlin Education Services loan and payment plan information view http://www.gatlineducation.com/loaninfo.htm
The administrators’ names are: Mr. Walsh, D. and Ms. Cooper, D.
Thank you for your interest.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.justintimefreight.com
Leaders Value Time
“Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.” Thomas A. Edison
To say that time is money is an insult to the power of time. Leaders know that time is their most precious commodity, valued even above wealth. They hold the currency of twenty-four precious hours in their hands. The use of these hours will determine success or failure, want or gain. Effective leaders lord over time. They make its minutes and seconds their slaves in order to accomplish their purpose.
They start meetings on time and end the same way. They set sensible borders to house deliberations or planning.
They don’t use ten words when one will do. Their presentations are well-planned, relevant, and interesting, but also concise.
They relax, but never dally. They are alert to their prime time – the hours of the day when they are most effective. They pause to regroup physically and mentally.
Effective leaders plan their time well. Each day has an agenda, whether formal or informal. Nothing is done without a purpose, even if that purpose is rest.
A leader considers killing time to be a capital crime.
Todays blog is from Minute Motivators for Leaders by Stan Toler. A great little book for quick inspiration.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.brooketraining.com
To say that time is money is an insult to the power of time. Leaders know that time is their most precious commodity, valued even above wealth. They hold the currency of twenty-four precious hours in their hands. The use of these hours will determine success or failure, want or gain. Effective leaders lord over time. They make its minutes and seconds their slaves in order to accomplish their purpose.
They start meetings on time and end the same way. They set sensible borders to house deliberations or planning.
They don’t use ten words when one will do. Their presentations are well-planned, relevant, and interesting, but also concise.
They relax, but never dally. They are alert to their prime time – the hours of the day when they are most effective. They pause to regroup physically and mentally.
Effective leaders plan their time well. Each day has an agenda, whether formal or informal. Nothing is done without a purpose, even if that purpose is rest.
A leader considers killing time to be a capital crime.
Todays blog is from Minute Motivators for Leaders by Stan Toler. A great little book for quick inspiration.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.brooketraining.com
People are Watching
Krish is a guest speaker at my school. I had a chuckle over this story he tells in his book:
By Krish Dhanam
The American Dream from an Indian Heart
(Upon completing a training course I led) I found myself standing outside a hotel waiting for the airport shuttle. The shuttle driver was running late and I decided to be proactive, pick up my own bags, and place them in the shuttle. My thought process was fairly simple. If I put the bags in we would save that amount of time when the driver arrived and we could be on our way.
My ethnic looks, coupled with the traveling gear I was loading in the shuttle bus, led to some mistaken assumptions by my fellow travelers. You can say that they mistook me for a baggage handler who could not speak English, as was evidenced by their respective actions. The first random act of ignorance was committed by the woman standing next to me as she beckoned me to repeat the process she had observed me under take. Simply put She used nonverbal commands to ask me to place her luggage in the shuttle. I obliged and returned to my rightful spot and continued to wait.
The next act of ethnic profiling was committed by a gentleman who suggested I do the same with his luggage. Once again I obliged. This time, however, I needed to make a statement of my own. Instead of reacting I remember Zig Ziglar telling me once that in life you need to respond because people are always watching.
As a training ambassador for Ziglar Training Systems I have an obligation to represent my company with the highest standards of which I am capable. Yelling at those people that day would have satisfied me more than anything. I am an educated, honest tax-paying citizen and people assumed I was a baggage handler – many of who I must tell you are also educated, hard-working, honest, tax-paying citizens…Most people would have reacted but I chose to respond. So with a smile I extended my open hand to each of them and netted nearly $4.00 – what a country!
…When I boarded the shuttle and the man realized that he had made a mistake. He simply said, “I wish all my employees had your disposition.”
I appreciate what Krish says. I don’t have brown skin like Krish but I did have a lazy eye as a child. Because of my eye, teachers assumed I wasn’t smart enough to be in regular classes. People may be ignorant but if we give them a break by responding rather than reacting perhaps that grace will rub off.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.brooketraining.com
By Krish Dhanam
The American Dream from an Indian Heart
(Upon completing a training course I led) I found myself standing outside a hotel waiting for the airport shuttle. The shuttle driver was running late and I decided to be proactive, pick up my own bags, and place them in the shuttle. My thought process was fairly simple. If I put the bags in we would save that amount of time when the driver arrived and we could be on our way.
My ethnic looks, coupled with the traveling gear I was loading in the shuttle bus, led to some mistaken assumptions by my fellow travelers. You can say that they mistook me for a baggage handler who could not speak English, as was evidenced by their respective actions. The first random act of ignorance was committed by the woman standing next to me as she beckoned me to repeat the process she had observed me under take. Simply put She used nonverbal commands to ask me to place her luggage in the shuttle. I obliged and returned to my rightful spot and continued to wait.
The next act of ethnic profiling was committed by a gentleman who suggested I do the same with his luggage. Once again I obliged. This time, however, I needed to make a statement of my own. Instead of reacting I remember Zig Ziglar telling me once that in life you need to respond because people are always watching.
As a training ambassador for Ziglar Training Systems I have an obligation to represent my company with the highest standards of which I am capable. Yelling at those people that day would have satisfied me more than anything. I am an educated, honest tax-paying citizen and people assumed I was a baggage handler – many of who I must tell you are also educated, hard-working, honest, tax-paying citizens…Most people would have reacted but I chose to respond. So with a smile I extended my open hand to each of them and netted nearly $4.00 – what a country!
…When I boarded the shuttle and the man realized that he had made a mistake. He simply said, “I wish all my employees had your disposition.”
I appreciate what Krish says. I don’t have brown skin like Krish but I did have a lazy eye as a child. Because of my eye, teachers assumed I wasn’t smart enough to be in regular classes. People may be ignorant but if we give them a break by responding rather than reacting perhaps that grace will rub off.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.brooketraining.com
Vets Come for Free
I go about my day and often forget all about our military risking their lives to preserve freedom. I’m proud that our school is approved by the Vocational Rehabilitation Department to train our veteran’s for a career as a freight broker.
Veteran’s may qualify for 100% financial aid for our basic training course AND for our advanced course. Here’s a recent testimonial from a graduate of the advanced course taken after he’d completed the basic course:
I highly recommend the advanced course to all who want an inside, up-close view of the freight broker industry. Lance (instructor) took ownership of the course ensuring I obtained industry knowledge and experience on a higher level. Thanks for the newfound knowledge. Jesus A.
So if you are a vet here’s the info you need to consider a new career in the world of transportation. No matter the state of the economy freight brokers are needed to help move food and other goods across the nation so we all stay well fed and clothed.
You must have a counselor in order to qualify. Contact your counselor, give them our school number (S2133) then ask your counselor to contact school director Janis Roach at (817) 999-5398. Only Disabled Veterans and Vocational Rehabilitation counselors call this number.
This is the same process for all applicants wanting financial aid with either the Texas Workforce and Veterans Affairs Administration AND the Department of Rehabilitative Services.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.brooketraining.com
Veteran’s may qualify for 100% financial aid for our basic training course AND for our advanced course. Here’s a recent testimonial from a graduate of the advanced course taken after he’d completed the basic course:
I highly recommend the advanced course to all who want an inside, up-close view of the freight broker industry. Lance (instructor) took ownership of the course ensuring I obtained industry knowledge and experience on a higher level. Thanks for the newfound knowledge. Jesus A.
So if you are a vet here’s the info you need to consider a new career in the world of transportation. No matter the state of the economy freight brokers are needed to help move food and other goods across the nation so we all stay well fed and clothed.
You must have a counselor in order to qualify. Contact your counselor, give them our school number (S2133) then ask your counselor to contact school director Janis Roach at (817) 999-5398. Only Disabled Veterans and Vocational Rehabilitation counselors call this number.
This is the same process for all applicants wanting financial aid with either the Texas Workforce and Veterans Affairs Administration AND the Department of Rehabilitative Services.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.brooketraining.com
Parachute Please
Take a chance, go ahead jump but don’t forget the parachute. Just read this article about an old skydiver. Jumping into a new career can be scary too. Getting the training and support you need is like checking you parachute. Jump without preparation and you may die. The parachute doesn’t guarantee a perfect landing but is great assurance that you will most likely make it.
Fulfilling a dream: 89 year old goes skydiving
BY PETE WICKLUND
Journal Times
(edited)
YORKVILLE — In his long and varied life, Paul Rusch has seen and experienced some amazing events.
In his younger days, he helped a friend run an airport near the Texas/Mexico border. During World War II, he met former President Eisenhower and General George S. Patton .
He then had a long work life in engineering and human resources.
But he never was able to go skydiving — until Sunday.
Rusch, who will turn 90 in December, was the oldest of approximately 50 veterans who took up Skydive Midwest’s offer to provide free jumps on Saturday and Sunday to disabled veterans and discounted jumps to non-disabled veterans.
Cybil Rose, publicist for Skydive Midwest, said that the veterans who participated ranged in age from a man in his 20s injured by an explosive device in Iraq, to veterans who use wheelchairs from the VA hospital in Milwaukee to a 61-year-old veteran from the Vietnam era.
Rose said Skydive Midwest proprietor Keith George, a former Marine, hosted this weekend’s “Tandem for Troops” event as a way to thank troops from all generations for serving the nation. Rose said some of the jump proceeds from the weekend, as well as proceeds from a raffle and food sales, will be donated to the Rehab Institute of Chicago, where work is under way with therapy and prosthetics for injured veterans.
It was Rusch’s daughter-in-law, Adrienne, who signed up her father-in-law for the jump, unbeknownst to him.
“I called right away and gave a brief history of my father-in law and asked if he would qualify,” Adrienne said. “She (the reservation taker) asked ‘does he know you’re doing this?’ and I said ‘no’ and she said ‘well, if anything changes, let us know.’ ”
Rusch was happy when he learned that he was going to jump. It fulfilled a longtime wish.
Although he flew in his younger days, a degree of color blindness kept him from air duty during World War II. He stayed on the ground as an engineering officer.
But while he was stationed in England during the war, he saw paratroopers preparing for their jumps into mainland Europe.
After the war, Rusch hoped to resume his flying, but economics and family responsibilities kept that from happening.
“When I learned to fly (in the 1930s) it was $5 an hour. After the war it was $60 an hour,” Rusch said. “I needed about 15 to 20 hours and I didn’t have that kind of money. As a matter of fact, I didn’t have any money, so I went to school instead.”
Using the GI Bill, Rusch got a degree in personnel management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He worked as an engineer and in held human resources until he retired from full time work 25 years ago.
Rusch looked anything but nervous before his jump Sunday.
“I don’t think it’s a big deal, but everyone else does,” Rusch said.
After a few hours of waiting, Rusch made his way with other jumpers to the plane.
A few minutes later he was among the several small dots that were parachutes descending to the ground. With strong gusty winds blowing, Rusch and his tandem jumper made it to the ground in a not-so-soft landing. But he came out unscathed.
“Oh man, I have to catch my breath,” Rusch said. “It’s harder work than it looks.”
Noting the general age of the jumpers at Skydive Midwest on Sunday — men and women mostly in their 20s and 30s — Rusch urged people to pursue their dreams.
“Do something when you’re young,” he said. “The probability to do something like this when you’re older is less and less.”
With family members planning a jump to celebrate grandson Joshua’s 18th birthday in April, would he do it again?
Rusch on Sunday was not so sure. But he’s happy his youngest grandson, Jacob, 11, is showing an early interest in aviation, even considering joining the Civil Air Patrol, his mom, Adrienne, said.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.justintimefreight.com
Fulfilling a dream: 89 year old goes skydiving
BY PETE WICKLUND
Journal Times
(edited)
YORKVILLE — In his long and varied life, Paul Rusch has seen and experienced some amazing events.
In his younger days, he helped a friend run an airport near the Texas/Mexico border. During World War II, he met former President Eisenhower and General George S. Patton .
He then had a long work life in engineering and human resources.
But he never was able to go skydiving — until Sunday.
Rusch, who will turn 90 in December, was the oldest of approximately 50 veterans who took up Skydive Midwest’s offer to provide free jumps on Saturday and Sunday to disabled veterans and discounted jumps to non-disabled veterans.
Cybil Rose, publicist for Skydive Midwest, said that the veterans who participated ranged in age from a man in his 20s injured by an explosive device in Iraq, to veterans who use wheelchairs from the VA hospital in Milwaukee to a 61-year-old veteran from the Vietnam era.
Rose said Skydive Midwest proprietor Keith George, a former Marine, hosted this weekend’s “Tandem for Troops” event as a way to thank troops from all generations for serving the nation. Rose said some of the jump proceeds from the weekend, as well as proceeds from a raffle and food sales, will be donated to the Rehab Institute of Chicago, where work is under way with therapy and prosthetics for injured veterans.
It was Rusch’s daughter-in-law, Adrienne, who signed up her father-in-law for the jump, unbeknownst to him.
“I called right away and gave a brief history of my father-in law and asked if he would qualify,” Adrienne said. “She (the reservation taker) asked ‘does he know you’re doing this?’ and I said ‘no’ and she said ‘well, if anything changes, let us know.’ ”
Rusch was happy when he learned that he was going to jump. It fulfilled a longtime wish.
Although he flew in his younger days, a degree of color blindness kept him from air duty during World War II. He stayed on the ground as an engineering officer.
But while he was stationed in England during the war, he saw paratroopers preparing for their jumps into mainland Europe.
After the war, Rusch hoped to resume his flying, but economics and family responsibilities kept that from happening.
“When I learned to fly (in the 1930s) it was $5 an hour. After the war it was $60 an hour,” Rusch said. “I needed about 15 to 20 hours and I didn’t have that kind of money. As a matter of fact, I didn’t have any money, so I went to school instead.”
Using the GI Bill, Rusch got a degree in personnel management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He worked as an engineer and in held human resources until he retired from full time work 25 years ago.
Rusch looked anything but nervous before his jump Sunday.
“I don’t think it’s a big deal, but everyone else does,” Rusch said.
After a few hours of waiting, Rusch made his way with other jumpers to the plane.
A few minutes later he was among the several small dots that were parachutes descending to the ground. With strong gusty winds blowing, Rusch and his tandem jumper made it to the ground in a not-so-soft landing. But he came out unscathed.
“Oh man, I have to catch my breath,” Rusch said. “It’s harder work than it looks.”
Noting the general age of the jumpers at Skydive Midwest on Sunday — men and women mostly in their 20s and 30s — Rusch urged people to pursue their dreams.
“Do something when you’re young,” he said. “The probability to do something like this when you’re older is less and less.”
With family members planning a jump to celebrate grandson Joshua’s 18th birthday in April, would he do it again?
Rusch on Sunday was not so sure. But he’s happy his youngest grandson, Jacob, 11, is showing an early interest in aviation, even considering joining the Civil Air Patrol, his mom, Adrienne, said.
Moving forward,
Jeff Roach
www.justintimefreight.com
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