Posts Tagged ‘newsletter’

I am going to write a monthly newsletter going forward and send it electronically. If you haven’t already signed up to receive it, please consider doing so! It won’t be long and I promise it will have useful information. Click on  this link to read the first official permission-based newsletter (okay, I’ve done it before, but it hasn’t looked  as ‘pretty’ as this one: July 2010.

Newsletters are a way for a business to keep clients abreast of specials, important news, and relevant information. I like electronic newsletters because I can read them when I have time. I’m a ‘tree hugger’ so I like to save paper where and when I can. Truly. Ask my family how I am about recycling. I make everyone crazy. LOL.  At least paper is better than plastic. I’m so off plastic right now!! STAMP OUT plastic please! Okay. my brief rant is over. Whew.

Anyway, back to the newsletter… congratulations to Marni Schmid who answered my teaser question that came with a $10 gift certificate to Corner Cup Cafe. The question, as well as the prize, were not easy to find in the newsletter. Did my heart good at the number of people who read it and answered it correctly so quickly! Thank you! The question was who said “No try. Do or do not. Try not.” The answer was Yoda.

To ‘try’ to do something is to set yourself up for immediate failure. Put your eye on the prize. Try not. Just do. When my girlfriend, Elaine Barber, recently published her first book after having it be a dream for 20 years, and we all finally got to purchase a signed copy, I told her that someone said “The world needs dreamers. And the world needs doers. But what the world really needs are dreamers who do.” She is a doer! Amen.

So wherever you are, you have a choice. I love to ‘be’. And I love to ‘do.’ But try? As Yoda would say…. no try.