Team TAG goes GREEN with new Solar Initiative

Monday, April 16 marks the start of the new Solar Campaign here at Team TAG.  Check out the official press release here: http://bit.ly/IySaRj.

Team Leaders Teach Career Workshop

Two of TAG's best team leaders, Jinu Park and Mirza Ulasoglu, spent their Friday afternoon volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club of Venice.  They participated in leading a career workshop teaching teens on how to prepare for interviews and impress future employers.  They definitely made the experience enjoyable and memorable for the teens.

Jinu and Mirza with the group of teens.

“The session prepared me for what I will encounter during a real job interview.  It was fun and intense at the same time, but I learned how to handle myself under pressure and what types of questions to expect and therefore I now know how to prepare.  It was interesting because the session wasn’t typical and boring, it was very interactive and it made all of us practice this important skill” – Max Ericastilla  12^th grader from Venice High School

Team TAG is constantly involved with various events at the Boys and Girls Club of Venice including their annual Silent Auction, Thanksgiving Dinner, and Dodgeball Tournament.

Jinu the teens how to "sell" themselves.

Hitting Goals = Free Team Nights!

The best office on the west side only deserves but the best Italian food from the west side!  Great job to the entire team for setting the pace in hitting and surpasing campaign retention goals week after week.

Here is the team enjoying some C&O Trattoria cuisine before our Taboo Throwdown for Team Night Olympics.  Everyone loved the food so much we had to order it again!

Chowing down on all the tasty Italian food.

Jaime, Ellesse, and Eliseo discussing their favorite pastas.

What Your Checkbook and Calendar Say About You

If I wanted to check your credit worthiness, I’d look at your balance sheet – what you have and what you owe – and I’d want to know about your history of paying your debts. If I wanted to know your values, I’d look at your calendar and checkbook.

How come? Well, the term “values” refers to core beliefs and convictions that drive decisions. Our values are revealed not by what we say but by what we do.

The simple fact is, time and money are limited resources that can materially affect the quality of our lives, so how we spend them reveals what’s really important to us.

We tend to think of our values in the grand context of our deepest moral convictions, but most of us have strong desires that have nothing to do with right and wrong. We value pleasure, comfort, companionship, adventure, and though we hate to admit it, certain possessions and luxuries.

There’s nothing wrong with having and pursuing these non-moral values so long as ethical values aren’t sacrificed in the process. Ultimately, though, it’s how we prioritize competing values that defines us.

Our character is determined by our dominant values.

So if you knew that your character would be judged by the choices reflected in your calendar and checkbook, would you spend either your time or money differently?

Are you spending enough time with your family, your team mates, and your own personal growth?  Are you devoting enough time helping others, reflecting, learning, and growing?

Do you put your money where your mouth is? Do you give an adequate amount of your income to charity? Are you making the choice to help the causes you really believe in?  Are you investing in your future and your growth?

The good news: it’s never too late to change your priorities! What are yours?