What keeps you motivated to work so hard & such long hours? Sure, we adore our clients and want to do a good job. Of course we need to pay our bills. But for some of us, it’s our greater life purpose that motivates. In my case, I love animals and use my profits to support great organizations who help them (SFSPCA, PETA, ICRA, etc.).

But today, I get to support a trusted client who needs a good family for his darling dog, Phoebe. Please help if you can, since he’s a wonderful dog (and darling client).

Here’s Doug’s story:

Please Adopt this Great Dog
Phoebe is a very friendly and sweet female black lab/pit bull mix, about 1-1/2 years old and in perfect health.  She has a glossy black coat (very soft ears and head!), with white chest and paws, and a faint white “racing strip” on top of her nose.

She weighs 44 pounds, but is smaller than this would suggest.  She is spayed, has a microchip (which you can register in your name), and is current on all shots as well as heartworm and flea treatments.

I’ll throw in her collar, bed, and a bunch of food and healthy treats, and I paid her adoption fee.

Phoebe loves people and is very smart and very sensitive. She has some aggression issues with other dogs, and needs someone with the time to train her out of it.  I have been working with her on basic commands like Come, Sit, Down, Stay, Leave It, and she has learned very quickly, and is anxious to please.

She is currently enrolled in an obedience class at the East Bay Humane Society which you can complete with her.

Contact Doug at (510) 237-2233 or windrider@douglasherring.us

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Will Ferrell on healthcare: http://bit.ly/SDvwI

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from our old blog: Thursday, December 11, 2008

I was inspired to share this beautiful ‘marketing message’ written by my friend Claudia Ruiz, a popular blogger for Columbia’s national newspaper. Claudia has educated me a bit about how drugs have ruined her beautiful country (part of the reason she left) and how her hopes are to help people shift their thinking which just might save the beauty, cultural richness and intellectual vastness her country has to offer. Her beautiful graphic reads: “If I use drugs I support war“. In the first day she’s already had over 800 responses.

Now THAT’S some great marketing!

And if you don’t read or write in Spanish, you can still comment in English and perhaps Claudia will translate it for you so her readers can know what English speaking residents think of her impressive ‘one woman’s fight for humanity’ campaign.

Let her know what you think! After all, knowledge is bliss, ignorance is expensive & fear-driven.

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from my old blog: Wednesday, February 4, 2009

In case you’re wondering how to express your love on Valentine’s day: Love is chocolate. Just ask the Buddhist monks who make Intentional Chocolate™.

Intentional Chocolate™ is focused on shifting the way humans relate to food by delivering sustenance that nourishes both body and spirit. Proven through rigorous scientific testing, Intentional Chocolate™ has been embedded with a specific intention of health and well being by experienced meditators, some of whom trained with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Need Justification?
Research found that one ounce of Intentional Chocolate™ per day for three days increased subjects’ well-being, vigor and energy by an average of 67 percent and, in some cases, up to 1,000 percent.

Gee, can I cut out my workouts and eat chocolate instead?
The company’s mission is to use intention to bring greater health, coherence and quality of life to all beings. Intentional Chocolate™ is well being manifested in a particularly delicious form. Share the Love.

Green Marketing
And I’d just almost decided it sounded painfully self-serving reading a company’s promotion who just now started claiming; ‘oh boy, we’re so great: we’re doing green marketing to benefit our planet’. I want to just write to them saying; “what took you so long? Some of us have been doing that for decades.” But gee, how many of us claim an association with the Dalai Lama in our green marketing? Now that got my attention!

What Do You Think?
What do you think about ‘green marketing’ in today’s world? Are you feeling this ‘we benefit…’ is so overused that you just don’t pay attention to it? Or does it have a big impact on your buying decisions? I’m curious because, after all, knowledge is bliss.

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