My column this month is a simple one. I want to just let you all know how grateful I am for you.
Kenyon Gleason
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President's Message: The Best Things Aren't Actually Things
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a person focused on commitment and trust. To me, if you aren’t committed to what you say you’ll do, and you aren’t a person of character who’s willing to back it up, can you really be trusted?
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It’s important to always be on your game. Building your credibility and reputation takes years. But in in just a matter of minutes, you can shred it to scraps for the trash bin.
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When we are young, we often do foolish things. And when we’re old… well, we still sometimes do foolish things. I’ve got a few great stories to tell. I bet you do too.
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I’m sure you have heard it by now. But over the weekend a new song (some might say a working man’s anthem) and a virtually unknown singer vaulted to the front of our consciousness thanks to at least one redeeming quality of social media, the fact that good people from relative obscurity can become folk heroes overnight.
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“The most effective way to do it is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
I bet when you read the title, some of you thought I was going to talk about a certain shoe and apparel company. Nope. I’m going to talk about Amelia Earhart, and great customer service. I’ll get back to Ms. Earhart in just a bit.
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If you farm or garden, or even if you just spend a lot of time taking care of your lawn, you’ve probably shared a few choice words for the weeds. They come out of nowhere, and everywhere. You can spend days, weeks or months trying to grow vegetables, crops or grass and sometimes have very little success. But the weeds, well, they always seem to find a way to grow.
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I’m not sure who said it, or said it first, but maybe you’ve heard the phrase about noise being like a stench in the ear. When you smell something bad, you know it. When things are noisy, it’s not a lot different. In fact, if you look in the mirror, you probably have a similar facial expression when confronted with either.
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I attended the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra a couple weeks ago. It was incredible.
Admittedly, I am not a big classical music fanatic. But I’d rather listen to classical than some of the screechy and screamy things some consider to be music today. I admire the talent it takes to create any music, and the lyrical work necessary to tell a story. But you like what you like, I guess.
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