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Archive for June, 2008

Old Things Made New Again

Written by BizCoachDeb on Jun 30th, 2008 | Filed under: Just a Thought

I was listening to Oprah and Friends, the Nate Berkus show, and on there were a couple of guests who own a business that specializes in finding things at rummage and yard sales, and then converting them into items of usefulness — I call it repurposing, but they had another name for it; it escapes me. That’s not really the point — the point is we can do this every day, in every way in our daily lives and in our business. Whether it’s an idea, a container, even a rubber band, look around and see if you can reinvent something and make it have a new use again. You could end up coming upon a truly idea, but you also could be sparing something from ending up in a landfill.


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