Each Friday, I open the Brag Basket for the weekend. It’s designed as a fun place for you to share your projects and accomplishments. But you can also cheer for other people, give shout outs, congratulate, and even give someone a well-deserved pat on the back.
Think that bragging is a bad thing? Read how Tony explains the Brag Basket.
The Brag Basket is open for everyone, whether from a small town, a big city, or anywhere in the world. (But it’s true that I love small town brags!)
Will you put something in the Brag Basket this week? You can brag on a friend, your own project, yourself, others, anything! You don’t need special permission, and you don’t have to be from a small town. Just leave a comment right here. There’s no deadline, so you can brag anytime during the weekend, and I’ll open a fresh Brag Basket each Friday.
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Good morning Becky! PriorityMe has been a great success with a steady stream of traffic. Of course we are updating the site daily and adding new features every week for the next few weeks! Inspirational podcast will be on the site by May! Nothing is as I expected but mostly it is way better! I am really thinking about Jon’s advice from his Gino’s Pizza post – I think that whole idea will be key for us…the website, the events, nothing is more important than the women we serve…(haha not like Gino’s serves pizza…but as customers!) Thank you for all the support!!!
Go, Sammi, Go! I’m so excited to see your progress!
I wanted to give a big tip of the hat to Woodbine, Iowa, the town where I work.
They have been involved in the Main Street program for about a year now and are starting to see the first fruits of this work.
Woodbine is home to the longest intact stretch of the original Lincoln Highway. They have a well-known rodeo each year the weekend following the fourth of July. They also have a sort of herbal mecca – with the industrial park where I work hosting four different herbal manufacturing concerns.
More info: http://www.woodbineia.org/
Let’s all give a big SBS salute to Woodbine, Iowa: Sa-LUTE! :) Hope you don’t mind, Shannon. It seemed to fit!
I want to brag about Becky, Patti W., and several of my friends and colleagues. My wife & I have come up with an idea for a small business – and these folks have provided much useful advise and ideas, with only positive contributions. Instead of saying “that won’t work” they have encouraged us to forge ahead – and we’re still working to develop it into a new business.
Thanks, Becky (and Patti and others), for your help and your enthusiasm. It’s contagious!
Thank you for the “salute” – much appreciated by all the folks in Woodbine, I am sure.
I have a second item. My uncle Virgil passed away last month after serving his family and his community well for many decades. From his modest business (a full service gas station/garage) he managed to touch my life and the lives of so many others with both his business, and his spirit of service. He was an eternal optimist, a fun-loving guy, and a terrific mechanic. A link below takes you to a Sioux City Journal newspaper article on him from a while back. We have missed him already and unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be anyone to step up and fill the void.
http://siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2006/07/05/news/top/a6aa13612bfab6e5862571a3000c57d9.txt
Also, my apologies, this is Shannon Ehlers. Apparently because I’m logged into my google account, Blogger displays my google profile info instead of my identity as I designated.
Dr. Murrow, I’m excited to see your progress on your new business idea! Glad to hear others are being positive, as well.
Shannon, what a terrific tribute. Thanks for sharing it.
As co-chair of a 5-community, 10-day Earth Day celebration, you can see the results (so far) of the 50 or so activities at http://newburyportearthday.info
The fun begins April 17.
Congrats, Ari! I love to see this kind of regional effort. It leads to bigger and better things.