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 Celebrating 10 years of Innovation!
The holidays are a time to reflect on the year past and give thanks for the many blessings in our lives. I am especially grateful for the wonderful people who work with me at CHR and CHRinfo. They are a dedicated, caring, and talented group. I also want to take this opportunity to thank our clients for their continued support.
May we all be blessed with good health and prosperity in the coming year.
Happy Holidays,
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| Tech Tip
E-mail-Electronic Mail or e-mail predates the internet and was an essential component in the internet's rise. E-mail got its start in 1965 as a way for users of time-sharing mainframe computers-invented three years earlier-to communicate with one another. Use of the @ sign was initiated in 1971. While e-mail is not without flaws or social consequences (spamming (bulk e-mail solicitation), phishing (e-mail-based identity theft scams), and information overload, etc.), it remains an essential tool for business and consumers alike. E-mail is also a great way to send holiday greetings.
Happy holidays!
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| Robin's Ruminations
Robin Watkins
As a leading provider of in-court information, we rely on highly skilled researchers, expert in their jurisdictions. Our researchers set us apart by providing the best on-site information gathering; they help us get in-court research done right!
This holiday season, thank a researcher. I know I will.
Happy Holidays!
Robin Watkins is General Manager of County House Research.
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| Three Ways to Keep it Simple
Jay Eidelman
The great nineteenth-century philosopher and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, was just 28 when he embarked on a two-year experiment in simple living. The result, published in 1854, was Walden, one of the great works of American letters. Thoreau is by no means the first to reject the materialistic world in favor of a simpler life. Living simply is a constant theme in much of western thought perhaps because the simple life can be fairly difficult to achieve. In business, burdened as it is by deadlines and profit margins, simplicity, particularly as it relates to efficiency and effectiveness, is key. Here are three things that will help you simplify your life:
1) Make a list of the things that are most important to you: excelling at work, spending time with family, finding new intellectual challenges, etc. These are your core values. Now cut out activities that interfere with your core.
2) Focus on what you are really good at and delegate the rest. No one is good at everything and there are only 24 hours in a day. Just like focusing on your core values, focusing on your core competencies will bring positive results.
3) Say no more often. It is in our nature as humans to want to please others so we sometimes say yes to requests when we shouldn't. Worse still, we sometimes agree to something just to get the person asking out of our hair (a situation with which any parent will be very familiar). The problem is that these yeses often deter us from doing what needs to get done. Wouldn't it have been better to have said no than to do something badly or half-heartedly?
As Thoreau said, "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
Happy Holidays!
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 Giving Corner
PAWS, the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society, is dedicated to saving the lives of Philadelphia's homeless, abandoned and unwanted animals. Taking in nearly 30,000 animals each year, and operating the highest volume shelter in the region, PAWS is working to end the killing of healthy and treatable pets in the City of Philadelphia.
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