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If you're reading this, you probably already know that Catch Your Limit is a hodgepodge of people and ideas, a hybrid of business models, an almagamation of talents. Our entire brand is built on working hard and playing hard with the ultimate goal of helping you to "catch your limit"...

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March is National Crafting Month!Therefore, I will be sharing some fishy crafts that I've found that are both easy and fun.To start it all off, we'll be making this adorable Lemon and Lime Fish!These are the supplies you will need:2 lemons1 lime2 allspice berriesa red radishtoothpicksa sharp paring knifeOnce you...

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I wish I would have written this, but I must give credit to our VP of HR. It is spot on. Enjoy.Know When to Hold ‘Em; Know When to Fold ‘EmAs a leader, if you find yourself complaining about your associates, you should consider whether you are doing...

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Note: To those James River readers, please excuse me for a moment while I set this up for those readers that don't have the "best urban whitewater" running through their city.The International Scale of River Difficulty is a standardized scale used to rate the safety of a stretch of river...

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During yesterday's cold, dreary afternoon something absolutely terrible happened. Check the headlines! A catastrophe has occurred in the Catch Your Limit office!Have I got your attention?Let me start with some background information. Scott, our tech mastermind, makes incredible food, period. If he sets his mind to cooking something, he doesn't...

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Bonjour! At the beginning of the year, all of us at Catch Your Limit sat down and created some personal action plans. Mine was two-fold. This summer Erin & I are going to be going to Europe for...

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Thank goodness for great team members and planning! This past week Catch Your Limit celebrated February Happy Hour event with a lovely Wine Tasting and "hopeful" cheese fondue. Michela and I had thought of the idea mid January to throw a wine tasting for February, to mix it up a...

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I participated in a retreat for my church's Vestry this past weekend. Our new Rector referred to our congregation as Post Modern. Being the good Catch Your Limit Guide that I am; I asked what Post-Modern meant in the context of a church congregation?He responded, we are extremely autonomous -...

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What kept me up last night was thinking about how to engage my current employee's. We have asked alot of our employees this past year, and maybe as a leader our efforts had to be focused elsewhere but now the question is what do they need from me and how...

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When all things are done and said, businesses only do two things. They market and they innovate. Or put another way, they sell things and create new things to sell. All other activities are in support of these core functions.These core functions however are in conflict with one another....

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I just returned from London and it seems like when I travel or do something that gets me out of my normal routine I get inspired. And, we all need a little inspiration. London is inspiring to me on a grand scale. In my mind it is...

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Trust & Loyalty, Loyalty & Trust.Where are these two things today?When the economy got bad and layoffs started becoming more and more frequent, people began trusting their bosses about as much as they would trust being locked in a room with a sleeping bear, about to wake up and pounce...

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I heard the following in a recent conversation with a marketing exec. I would have laughed had the potential consequences not meant that people will probably lose their jobs. I'm going to be a little vague on the details because I don't want to risk the exec's job anymore than...

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Employers saw a lot of differences and challenges when hiring the most recent workforce group, the gen y-ers.But they haven't seen anything, yet. Next up is generation z. You might not have heard of them yet, as they were only born as early as 1995, but they'll be entering the...

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In sort of a sequel to Michela's last blog, I was thinking about the generation discussion and I believe that having multiple generations in the workplace is very beneficial. It also can be catastrophic if everyone is too stubborn in their own ways but that comes with anything you do....

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It is no surprise that the way an office is run is changing due to the increasing presence of us "Gen Y"-ers. We've been labeled everything from the 'MyPods' to 'the Baby Boomlets' to 'the Boomerang Generation" (and that's just to name a few). We've had negative connotations associated with...

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As a child, when adults would be talking about business, I misheard a well-known quote. I thought people were saying, "It is a doggy-dog world." I would envision all kinds of nice business people walking down Wall Street, tipping their hats and saying hello. They would be holding their cute...

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I love the Think Different Apple ads. Particularly the uproar the grammar geeks sent up when they misunderstood the headline and thought it should have been Think Differently.One of my gifts is breaking challenges into component parts and rearranging/reassembling those parts to achieve a goal. I think both different and...

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With every new year, comes new promises to ourselves: lose weight, spend more time with our families, quit smoking, etc. etc. etc. However, according to an article by Keith Hartung, only "52% of all of the participants in a resolution study believed they would accomplish their goals, and...

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I've had a miserable holiday season. I woke up on the 24th with "cold" symptoms and have spent the last 10 days feeling awful. I stayed in bed on Christmas, missed every party and went to bed last night still feeling like death warmed over. Miracle of miracles, I woke...

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I think people would like to think of themselves as static. Static in the sense that they "are". They are this or they are that. It's confusing to be neither, nor. When you're neither this nor that it's difficult to have an identity. This need for certainty makes it very...

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Wow! Here I am on our blog site thinking I would see a plethora of blogs from our super crack blog team, the first day of 2010. Yet, surprisingly, it's come up empty.So ... this is an opportunity for me to write a song just for you and be the...

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MIA. That's me!I am the blogger who loves to blog, helped create the BTIA&B Blog and has been a steady blogger ... up until ... well ... recently.Don't get me wrong, I am doing things ... lots of things ... too many things.Planes love me. Clients are multiplying like crazy...

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My daughter, Jennifer, was born 26 years ago today.I had lunch with her today and I marvel at how she has grown into such a gracious lady. Fair of face and limb with strong convictions. She's quiet and yet she radiates a calm confiedence.I admire her generosity of spirit and...

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Google Wave: Love it or Hate it?This week I have had the opportunity (along with Scott and Michela) to play around with Google Wave, Google's new real time communication system. It's self-described as a "personal communication and collaboration tool". I have personally heard a lot of buzz surrounding it but...

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