Welcome to Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know where you were inspired! Today’s topic? Spark an Idea to Finish What You’ve Started.

This week’s “Spark an Idea Thursday” is all about finishing what you started!

Now I think this is a great topic but I’m going to put a little twist on this one, OK?

What I’d like to talk to you about instead is WHY you don’t finish what you start.

Why the closer you get to finishing something, the harder it is to complete.
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Within 24 hours, the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation Can Give a Family Hope and Relief This Father’s Day

Father’s Day takes a moment out of the year and our increasingly hectic lives to recognize all the special Dads and father figures who have provided us with love, guidance, and support, both spiritually and by supplying our basic needs. Single fathers, especially, face unique challenges, but when the unimaginable happens, the diagnosis of a child with a terminal illness, new pressures arise: mounting bills, demands at work, and the probability that one cannot remain at their child’s side when that child needs them the most.

This Father’s Day, through the Dedications 2 Dads initiative, the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation, is calling on you — mothers, children, siblings, caregivers and fathers yourselves –  to help single Dad families. (more…)

Welcome to ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know where you were inspired!

So as a new business owner I am trying hard to stand out from the crowd and go the extra mile for my clients.

And as luck would have it, this weeks “Spark An Idea Thursday” is all about how to show appreciation for your clients.

Well in this crazy world we live in I think it’s the simple things that gets noticed more than anything, know what I mean?

Let’s face it, people and businesses do NOT want to work to get or keep your business, right?
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Dads, here’s your chance to win a Clarisonic Skin Care System.

Here’s the down low on our Father’s Day Giveaway prize:

Clarisonic Skin Care recognizes that men are just as discerning about their grooming products as women are. Created by the inventor of the Sonicare toothbrush, the Clarisonic uses sonic technology and works with the skin’s natural elasticity to unclog pores for deeper cleansing without stripping the skin. Using the Clarisonic prior to shaving will open pores and give your man the closest shave of his life. The launch of their men’s Graphite Gray Clarisonic for Father’s Day in 2008 was so successful that they made it a permanent part of the line. Tinseltown A-listers like Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman and Justin Timberlake have also made Clarisonic part of their grooming routine.

CLARISONIC Skin Care System is the first sonic oscillation face brush that deeply cleanses, stimulates and clarifies the skin. Using any nonabrasive facial cleanser, CLARISONIC works to cleanse skin more thoroughly than manual washing. With its easy usage and waterproof design, no additional time is added to the beauty regimen and it can safely be used in the shower.

Entry is easy – just leave a comment below and let us know who you’d love to win this great gadget for his bathroom.  (Yes, of course you can enter for yourself!) Be sure to use a legitimate email since that’s how we’ll contact you for the winner’s information.

Entries are open until noon EST on  June 19th.  We will accept one entry per household.  Winners will be chosen at random.

Disclosure: Sparkplugging has not received payment of any kind to offer this giveaway.

My name is Nick Bostic, I’m one of the Sparkplugging  interns and I’m a PC.

The fact that I’m a PC has been further solidified lately and is part of the reason you haven’t seen me here yet.  Apple has been killing my PC.  Let me back up a moment…

I grew up on PC’s. I assembled my first Intel 8086-based computer when I was five and that was before it was normal for a five year old to even be on a computer, let alone building one. I was a beta tester for Windows 95. I helped my dad in his consulting business switching out advertising agencies from Mac’s to PC’s.

The whole Mac vs. PC thing annoys me and it reached a critical climax in the last few weeks. Consumers complained that OS X was “prettier” and more stable than Windows XP, so Microsoft came out with Vista. I LOVE Vista. But so many people I encounter say, “Vista is too different, I can’t get used to it, so I’m going to Mac.” As Jon Stewart would say, “Whaaaa??” You wanted different, they gave you different, you don’t like different so you’re going MORE different? (more…)