I was just reminded of a very provocative book I read a few years back, The Superman Syndrome, by Gen N. Landrum, PH.D . On the book’s back cover the "superman syndrome" is defined as "a series of common behaviors that permit an otherwise average person to rise above the norm."
When I read a [...]
Since my merchant account writing is on hold for the moment I thought I would share of couple of interesting stories I came across over the weekend. I hope they make your Monday a better day.
The first is a lecture from Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who is has terminal [...]
You must check out this “insightful, funny, thoughtful, wise animation on the eight principles of fun. Trust me, it isn’t corny. Was having a crappy day, stumbled upon this site. Don’t feel so crappy anymore. Two minutes well spent,” said the original person who dug this web page.
I wasn’t having that bad [...]
Pricing Difference Between a Retail and a MOTO Account
Both Visa and MasterCard see a card not present (CNP) transaction as a greater fraud risk than when a card is present and swiped. Therefore, both have a .31% surcharge on CNP transactions. So let’s say you have a base discount rate of 1.85% on [...]
It was my 43rd birthday the other day and one of my children, Corrie, made me a Power Point presentation to mark the day. One of the slides gave some statistics about my life. The key stat that stood out to me was the one that revealed how many minutes I had lived. [...]
I was able to do a little Sunday morning reading from one of my favorite easy reads, “It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be” written by Paul Arden. As I read the pages realizing how counter intuitive and unreasonable the ideas are in the book I thought to [...]
