By Steve Price Recently, I was having a conversation with a friend about embracing the spirit of adventure within oneself and felt it worthy of discourse. As someone who lives attached to a ventilator with restricted movement, the spirit of adventure is often relegated to getting a solid, deep breath of air without feeling as
By Well Sewn Staff In economics, there is a theory called the Law of Diminishing Returns, and this is a term that you will hear used often here at Well Sewn. While diminishing returns, as a theory, is generally applied to production methods, it can be applied to a large swatch of other aspects of
By Lauren Beasley Ahhh, here we are, well into the year 2022. We are also well into the usage of words and phrases that were foreign to us just a few years ago, such as “coronavirus”, “N95”, “vaccination card”, “epidemic”, “social distancing”, and “quarantine”. Ah, to go back to the days where “corona” was only
By Lauren Beasley How many hours of PTO do you currently have “saved for a rainy day” or for an emergency? When was the last time you actually took some time off and didn’t feel like you needed a vacation from your vacation? When was the last time you had no plans? No soccer games,
By Bryan Ergle Shaving… a task that young men often look forward to as a rite of passage, and then men and women both, for the most part, basically endure for the rest of their lives, the unavoidable consequence of having not been shipwrecked on a deserted island. But the way we shave today, the
There is a disease that runs rampant among men in western culture – perhaps all over the world – that serves to destroy more lives than almost any other. Whereas cancer, heart disease and other prominent killers of men have noticeable symptoms in the body’s muscles and organs, so too does this one. Unlike other
By Well Sewn Staff You were out for a night on the town, and things got a bit… wild. What started out as a social occasion to drink turned into quite the party, and now that you’ve woken up with Thor’s hammer smashing you in the skull, you are wondering where your life went wrong.
By Bryan Ergle If you work in any sort of retail or sales position, you’ve probably heard the expression “ABC: Always Be Closing”. The phrase, originating from the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, adapted from the 1984 play of the same name, has become stuck in the psyches of sales coaches and managers everywhere, it
By Bryan Ergle “I don’t know.” When did that simple phrase become so difficult for people to say, so completely banished from day-to-day conversation? To utter that phrase now, you would think that you were committing a capital offense or admitting guilt to some grievous crime before a jury of your peers. In the internet
By Bryan Ergle Nuance, in the modern era, seems to have become an evil buzzword, something that may get you banned from a popular club or shunned at a weekend get together. It is verboten in political and business speech, and increasingly often, in day-to-day chit chat. But it should not be so – because
