Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week!
Culture – We’re kid welcoming, but we’re not kid friendly. This topic was brought up in Book Club last week and it made me think about why we’ve always been welcoming of families, but not necessarily family friendly. From the beginning, we’ve always been a late night place. A place where adults can be adults. Adults say shit and say fuck sometimes and adults get drunk sometimes too. We’re cool with that. We encourage it. We’re the place that keeps the party going. We’ve carved out a nitch for ourselves because we decided early on that we’re not going to hide behind who we really are. We decided to be unapologetically ourselves. There are plenty of pizza joints and bars out there that either don’t have much of a personality, or don’t have one at all, and that’s totally cool…it’s safe. But, we choose to let our personalities shine. Good, bad or whatever, we-are-who-we-are and we should be proud of that. We’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but we’re a few people’s favorite cup of tea. Likewise, we might not mean everything to everyone, but we mean everything to some. Our culture is our personality and our personality is our brand. And our brand will always be welcoming to ANYONE who wants to party with us, young and old, as long as they don’t mind a few four-letter words.
Leadership – It’s the silence between the notes that makes the music. We focus a lot on helping you be the best you can be at work; leadership tactics, best practices, language to use, ways to structure your day and many other skills intended for you to use to be a better leader. What we rarely talk about is all the things you do outside of work that completes the whole of your day. Now I’m certainly not going to go into a lecture about how you should spend your free time or that you shouldn’t get fucked up. Not at all. This is simply to draw awareness to the fact that everything you do in your life has a direct effect on every other part of it. You can take the most beautiful piece of music and if you replace the silences between the notes with an air horn, it would probably be intolerable. Life is similar. If you fill all your free time with toxic habits, the times when you need to be present and do your best work will undoubtably be effected. It eventually becomes unsustainable. Being intentional with what you do away from the things that are important to you will help to realize what’s contributing to your success and what’s stealing from you. It’s easy to get caught up in bad habits and sometimes you’re your own worst enemy. We’ve all been there. It’s a fun town to visit, but you probably shouldn’t live there.
History – Our Tip Jars. While we’re on the subject of being family welcoming, but not family friendly, why not touch on one of our biggest offenders, our tip jars. My favorite, “Every time you tip, a dolphin has on orgasm,” has been with us from the beginning. Nothing embodies our personality more. It’s hilarious and edgy, especially for a pizza shop. I forget who came up with this one or where we got it, but to this day, it always makes me smile. Our tip jars are just another way to make people laugh when they visit us. They’re another way for our culture, personality and brand to shine. People take pictures of them, they share them and they talk about them. Win-win-win.
Motivation – “One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.” – Napoleon Hill
The 5th Thing (something I’m reading, watching or inspired by) – Spring is near! Isn’t is crazy that we just had Daylight Savings Time? I find myself nothing but thankful for the extremely mild winter we just had.
Baby Update – We never wanted to be those type of parents. You know, the kind of parents with all that stupid, brightly colored Fisher Price bullshit littering every corner of their house. We always thought, we’d be the parents with nice, expensive, reasonably colored educational toys. The ones you can only get online or in Martha’s Vineyard. Hahahahaha! How naive. The swift hand of reality then one day bitched-slapped us and we found out that toys, at least at this stage aren’t meant for learning. They’re meant for distraction and if the sweet little babychild will be quietly occupied for 20 minutes in some gawdy, bright plastic bullshit, then that’s what we’re buying. Our house looks like a daycare. Child 1, parents 0.
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Have a great week!
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