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One thing that I know we can agree on is trying to predict diesel fuel prices, weather and the unpredictable acts of god. We have talked about diesel fuel prices in the past and you bet it will come back up again in this column but today it’s weather and acts of god. I’m not talking about sunny weather or snowy, cold winter weather though you want to make sure you have a good fuel additive program. I am talking about the weather you didn’t see coming, even some that you might see coming and the crazy things that happen every day in this world that could affect your fuel management solutions.

Hurricanes, mud slides, heavy tropical storms, tornadoes, power grind disruptions, floods, frozen rivers, broken pipeline, you get the picture. These things happen and they happen more often than any of us want them to happen. The key for your company to be successful when most of things do happen is to have an emergency fuel management backup plan in place. Listen if you lived in Nashville, TN last month and the river over flooded like it did and your trucks were in 5 feet worth of water, there isn’t a lot you can do, as far as your fleet fuel goes. That was a very out of the box situation and sometimes no matter how hard you plan there just isn’t anything you can do.

Here is a short list of emergency fuel management tips:

- cents If you have bulk fuel tanks. Work a contract out with one fuel vendor and establish a relationship with them. This is critical when emergency happen. If you are trying to beat the fuel market each day and bottom lowest diesel fuel prices win, you will lose when an emergency happens. The fuel vendors will be as loyal to you as you are to them.

- cents Keep your bulk fuel tanks as full as possible. This way you have a couple of day’s worth of supply.

- cents Make sure you have a backup generator for your pumps or you won’t be pumping diesel fuel out of your bulk fuel tanks if the power is out.

- cents Have your generators in all parts of your building kept full. The diesel fuel used in a generator should be well treated with fuel additive and should also be run through several cycles per year. Don’t let it be during the emergency when the first time using your generator since the last emergency. Diesel fuel can go bad if it sits around too long.

- cents If you don’t have mobile fleet fueling at your location, establish a relationship with a mobile fueling vendor. This can help with your generator fueling, mobile fueling directly into your fleet of trucks as well as possibly bringing you in a short load of diesel fuel into your bulk tank if you have one.

- cents Fleet fuel cards. You might already have them because you buy most of your fleet fuel over the road but if you have bulk tanks or mobile fueling, having fleet fuel cards in a draw that work can really help you out in a pinch. You are not going to be able to order fleet fuel cards during an emergency and expect to get them anytime soon. It takes time to process them and who is going to deliver them to you FedEx, UPS, USPS or others they are all battling the same issues you are during this period of time.

As a fuel manager, you need to make sure your fuel management systems are in place before the problem happens. There is also no reason why during a crisis you should sign off on all your fleet fueling bills like all diesel fuel prices are acceptable. Yes, to deliver during a crisis does take more time and effort and there is a price to pay for that but a fuel analysis after the fact won’t do your company much good.

Get your emergency fuel management pricing deals in place ahead of time, like everything else.

Good luck.
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When someone hurts our feelings, and this is perhaps the most common injury, it is possible to endure symptoms of emotional upset, tearful episodes, anger, seething resentment or violent reactions that can cause aggressive behavior or impulse to retaliate.

We can brood about the hurt, try to resolve the cause by discussion or when extremely serious, allow depression or even despair to take away our ability to enjoy life. But if we follow nature’s way we allow time to heal, to restore our positive emotional state and self confidence, this is the best way. And with all healing, it just can happen, sometimes magically, if we place trust in the natural process and give ourselves time to decide how to act.

Mental pain is not so immediately demanding to the extent that we can go for days, months, even years avoiding the issues or without finding a remedy to take away our mental injuries. If our long unhealed psychological states or traumas are left unresolved they are likely to flare up to be the cause of acute and inexplicable moods, anxieties or settle into depression.

Therefore, when someone or something causes us mental distress it usually takes a longer period of time and the injury can be deeper and more severe than a temporary physical pain or passing emotional situation. It requires a strong and positive attitude if we are to find our usual quiet, safe place in our minds and regain our seat of self control and self determination and even self confidence.

Remember, it is our choice to respond or to refrain from reacting in any way to a situation or to someone else. When we allow an unthinking or instinctive response we are no longer in control. We place ourselves in the role of victim. We soon discover that if we want to hit back and hurt ,it inevitably will lead to more conflict and aggression. Neither do we want to brood over the hurt or wallow in self misery as the victim of a situation.

There are also occurrences so traumatic that they damage us physically and psychologically to extend our pain and suffering for a lifetime if we do not find a remedy. We must find the courage to face or acknowledge the unique causes and hurtful experiences if we are to become free of them to feel whole and happy inside. Acceptance, forgiveness, understanding are valuable tools.

If we can remain strong enough to either distance ourselves physically, if that is appropriate, or to have a little quiet time to come to terms with our feelings it is better than regretting any over reaction. We can do this by retreating to take ten slow, deep breaths before making a conscious choice.

Mental attitudes can help us. We may accept bad circumstances or experiences to be our bad fortune, or to be symbolic of karmic lesions still to be learned. We may focus upon the spiritual teachings that tell us to refrain from hurting our fellows, even if we are hurt by them.

Yet still we can be forgiven in having a natural common query as to why someone would want to harm or hurt a nice person like yourself! This may never be answered.

So, remember the 10 deep breaths! Then add another inhalation of a wonderful perfume – and move on!

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A concept, an idea for a winning product or service? Well, if you don’t have one of your own, there are sources from which you can legitimately acquire one.

Money? Whatever you need, if you can suitably justify that need, there are sources willing to lend it to you, or invest in you.

A sound business plan? If you’re unable to develop one on your own, there are sources willing to help. For a fee, true, but they’re available.

As for talent, businesses large and small have for centuries hired whatever talent they’ve needed. A CEO, CFO, perhaps a COO? They’re available. Middle managers? They’re available, too. People to do the actual work? Yes, occasionally even good ones – if you look long and hard enough.

But time? There are only 24 hours in any day. OK, perhaps a few seconds more if you want to get technical. But your day is basically limited to 24 hours. Can you make time? Guys of my generation thought so. In fact, “making time” was something we enjoyed – though it had little to do with business.

Can you save time? We often say we can. And we often try. But does that make it true? You might run an errand during your lunch hour rather than after work. Having done so, you tell yourself you saved a half hour.” But did you? Is there actually a bank somewhere into which you can actually deposit and save those 30 minutes?

It’s about time you asked yourself what your time is worth. To your business, to the people who depend on you, to yourself? Isn’t it about time you made the most of your time? Whether it’s for family, for friends, for play, or for work, now is the best time to make the best use of your time.

Contrary to the popular expression, you don’t want to “spend your time” merely doing things – invest your time in accomplishing things, meaningful things. Put time to work for you. Do with it what you will, but do it wisely – because at most you have only 24 hours in any day.
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Really take a look at the relationship that ended. Was it a good one, mutually beneficial and satisfying to both of you? Or were you hanging on because you did not want to be bothered with starting the game over and look for someone new?

As you reflect on the relationship, be honest with yourself, and fair to her. If this lady was not your soul mate, she did you a favor by ending the relationship before both of you invest more time and effort.

However, if you think she is the one, that special lady you want to spend the rest of your life with, get that relationship back on track as quickly and as gently as possible. So, you have decided you want to work on restarting the relationship. You think you have found your true love. What do you think she feels toward you? Maybe you need to find out.

Instead of constantly showing up at places you know she will be, avoid her for awhile. Instead of sending test messages and emails all the time, make no contact. Not even a phone call nor a message through mutual friends. Do not see her nor speak with her for a few weeks. Give her time to regret her decision. Give her time to really miss you.

While you are having no contact with her, begin to move about socially. Go out with your friends, be seen by her or her friends having a good time. Let her wonder if you are really moving on without her. As she sees you out and about with friends, she will pay attention to how you treat the ladies in your crowd. Be sure that you are still the perfect gentleman. She will notice that you are still the man she thought she had fallen in love with some time ago.

Many times a relationship starts out with both partners on their best behavior, minding their manners. They are polite and kind and generous. But somewhere along the way, they become comfortable with each other and the little things that mean so much to a relationship are lost. Boredom sets in. Nobody is special in the relationship. Each one is taken for granted. The relationship is in trouble and nobody knows it.

Think about the relationship you two had. And, when your path crosses with your ex girlfriend, let her know you remember the good things you enjoyed. If you think you might bump into her be prepared. Wear that shirt she gave you for a special occasion so she can see that she is still important to you.

Since your paths are beginning to cross more often these days, invite her to an event where there will be a group of people, not just the two of you. She will probably be more willing to come as part of a group than as a real date. As you begin to socialize again, pay attention to her, but do not ignore others in the group, especially the ladies. Continue to be friendly and polite with everyone in the group.

There is no doubt that she will recognize you are still that man she cared about just a short time ago. She will see there is hope the relationship could spark again.

And do not be surprised when she asks you out, just the two of you, perhaps to discuss the relationship. You will know you have done the right things, and there is hope.

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Until it happens.

Then it goes to hell in a hand basket. Nobody has a plan for it. Nobody prepares for it.

It could be anything, right? But it isn’t. It is much more important than anything.

It is happening as you read these words to approximately 40 million Americans. Nobody knows the number for the world, but it is huge.

It happens at one particular moment and it is at that moment one of two events takes place. Event one makes you a caregiver or event two makes you a care receiver.

Ronald Reagan proved position, power and wealth matter not an iota. Christopher Reeve became a “champion of the cause” after it happened to him. The average Joe and Mary Sixpack are too numerous to mention but as you can imagine they comprise the bulk of the caregiving/care receiving population.

You see, about one in six Americans is either a caregiver or a care receiver and very few of them are prepared for the responsibilities inherent in the task. Regardless of the level of preparation, life has changed and you are thrust into a new role.

New responsibilities, tasks, adjustments, questions, opinions, actions and reactions seem to flood you like a tsunami. But, unlike the clean up efforts in the aftermath of a tsunami when agencies, governments, and peoples from all over the world come to the rescue, there doesn’t seem to be a soul available to help you.

Fortunately, that’s just a perception as there is a free manual available for download at http://www.senior2senior.org that is the blueprint for everyone in the care giving arena. It takes the process step by step to insure both sides of the equation, giver and receiver, have access to a quality program suited to their particular situation and needs.

It is packed with resources that will lighten the burden and provide a clear path on which to proceed. Updates are always free and senior2senior encourages everyone to tell others where they can get their own personal copy.

Since no one is immune from it, it only makes sense to take at least minimal steps to help ourselves before it visits us and puts us in one of the only two categories it knows. After all, who is better prepared to handle your personal it than you?
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Your man may have promised to call by nine in the morning. The time may pass until it gets to nine at night without hearing from him. The hours may turn into days without a word from him, and you will be full of anger and frustration. Doesn’t he care about you? Is that his way of telling you good-bye?

There are a number of good reasons that may make the man not call. For example, he may have been genuinely occupied. But what if this is something that happens frequently? Is he always that busy?

Checking your reaction

Another reason that may make your man not call may be purely intentional. It may be that he is deliberately trying to monitor how you will react. If you turn emotional, you won’t necessarily be in a better position. When you lash out with accusations, you will have reacted exactly the way he expects. He will see that you are already deeply involved in the relationship, and he will be comfortable. He won’t see any reason for calling.

On the other hand, when you do not seem too bothered with his apparent forgetfulness, he will be motivated to come after you. So, when your man seems to forget his promise to call you back, don’t call instead. And when he calls, do not shower him with your accusations.

In this way, you will give him the opportunity to chase after you. If he has any interest, he will call you back. When he sees that you are not in his grasp as he would like, he will put more effort in getting in touch with you.

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