Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo
Originally published on May 18th, 2009
In This Issue
o 68%Increase in Business
o Say Something Good
o Points To Ponder
o A Little Humor
o Quote of the Week
68% Increase in Business
For years now I have been saying that for every negative thing that happens there is an equal positive force if you can only find it. Well, today I read that GM is closing over a thousand of its dealerships. Tonight I went to a wedding rehearsal and the groom who is in the shoe repair business near NC State University told me that their shoe repair business is up 68%. He said that people are no longer throwing away their $110 shoes, they are having new heels put on and having their shoes resoled. That is the most refreshing news that I have heard in months. OK, it is a stretch from many thousands of people involved with GM losing their jobs and one fellow saying their little business is doing so well. My point is that good things are happening all over America but you will never read about them in our newspaper and you will never hear about them on the evening news. As they say, good news doesn’t sell. God knows that America needs to get on the road to recovery and quickly so let it begin with this one little story and let it grow and grow.
Say Something Good
Hockey! Here I sit, happy as a duck at the Sportsplex parking lot who just found a car to sit under. First my old home town Detroit Redwings won their game in the last few seconds and then our North Carolina Hurricanes won their game in overtime as both teams advance in the Stanley Cup Playoff Series. So I’m not a staunch hockey fan and I’ve only seen the Wings play once when I was a young man. So this could turn out like Michigan playing UNC recently in basketball… A win-win situation for me. May God bless our troops and may God bless all America as we turn the corner to a bright, prosperous future.
Points To Ponder
Opra at Duke graduation recently. “How can I help somebody else move to higher ground? That is success. That’s it. That’s why we’re all alive,” she said. “Each of us has to stand in our own shoes. Will you stand in them in humility and compassion and courage? Every day will give you a chance to make that choice.”
A Little Humor
Sadly, some recent grads are learning that currently Ph.D. means Pizza Hut Driver
Quote of the Week
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. Carl Bard
