New Year’s is like the world’s birthday – it’s our opportunity to make a different and better world for ourselves, our teams, and our families.

What are going to be your contributions – start working out, consume less, spend more time creating and less time binging? Now’s the perfect time for change. What will yours be?

But before you nose-dive into grandiose ambitions for this next year, I created a fast and simple 10-step plan to make the whole process of renewal more manageable. It’s a great place to start if you want to see actual results, change worlds, and maybe even move a few mountains.

These are certainly surreal times. After more than a year of adapting to the COVID crisis, we as a nation are finally coming out the other side — for better or worse, ready to meet tomorrow.

One thing’s for sure: It’s not the same world — probably never will be again. And this affects how you should purchase fin tubes.

Masks are coming off, literally and figuratively. The economy’s heating up like a heat exchanger brimming to boil.

Nevertheless, industries continue to face unprecedented challenges. The country is in the midst of a labor crunch — qualified personnel are difficult to find. And in hand with labor shortages come supply chain deficits. It’s not easy to find what you need when you need it — and the cost can be anyone’s guess.

“As the pandemic has hampered factory operations and sown chaos in global shipping, many economies around the world have been bedeviled by shortages of a vast range of goods — from electronics to lumber to clothing,” write Peter S. Goodman and Niraj Chokshi in the New York Times. “In a time of extraordinary upheaval in the global economy, Just In Time is running late.”

In our mission to deliver quality finned tubes to our customers, Energy Transfer is by no means immune to the challenges of the marketplace. Fortunately, we’re well positioned and have an advantage over many of our competitors, but the market for fin tubes has become the proverbial Wild West.

More often than not, you’re shooting from the hip, trying to stay ahead of the stampede.

Waking up this morning over a steaming cup of coffee, a meme suggesting Trump crapped himself caught me off guard and immediately stole 20 minutes of my soul.

I laughed, as anyone who still can should. And then I Googled “Trump poops pants in public” because, well, that’s the world we live in these days.

You can find an image of the 45th president, post golf swing, with an obvious brown stain down the back of his trousers. Turns out that image was Photoshopped. But it’s totally believable, considering the legal turd hurricane our former president increasingly finds himself in. No matter your take on MAGA, who wouldn’t mess themselves wearing those golf pants?

Maybe not the best way to begin the day that honors the legacy of MLK, I’ll admit.

And then I thought: “What’s happened to our leaders?”

You know what feels pretty sweet? Partnering with great people.

After all, strong partnerships make the world go around — where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. Your success and theirs is integrated — synchronously beneficial and symbiotic. You work together like distinct parts in the same machine.

That’s why we couldn’t be happier with our partnered collaboration with Amazon. CTM is a major supplier of shipping and printing labelers for Amazon’s Fulfillment Centers. In fact, Amazon ships millions of products that have been labeled by a CTM label applicator. Amazon’s level of trust in our labeling machines is a source of community pride.

It never fails. After a heavy San Francisco rainstorm, your basement smells like old man socks. You’ve got a musty smell in your crawl space. What can you do about it?

Just because your basement or crawl space smells like Neil Young’s Birkenstocks after a night of heavy jamming, don’t take it personally. It happens to the best of us.

You likely have a mold and mildew issue from water seeping through the walls. It could also be a dead animal. Or perhaps live animals turned your basement or crawl space into an Outside Lands porta-potty.

Or it could be Crazy Horse moved into the cellar and haven’t done laundry in a long time.

Either way, you’ve got problems. Your crawl space smells bad – like old man feet when the socks come off.

But you don’t need to just accept it like a heavily scripted rock opera taking over the entire first set. Get rid of that musty smell in the crawl space with a concerted renovation program that’s bio-safe and eco-friendly.

Here’s how to get started to rid of that musty smell in the crawl space without the use of poisonous chemicals. With a little rehabilitation and eco-friendly cleaning, your space can practically smell like roses, or perhaps even like Daryl Hannah in the days of “Splash.”

Your ETS date is on the calendar. You’ve served your country, and your time is almost complete. What’s next?

As you move forward into civilian life, it’s best to make the transition out of the military as stress-free as possible.

Adjusting to civilian life can be challenging. According to data from the University of Southern California, two of three military veterans reported they struggled to adjust to life after the military. Three out of four did not have a job lined up after getting out, and roughly a third ran into financial trouble.

It’s easy to make mistakes, which can cost you years and lost wages. To set yourself up for success and ensure a smooth transition, avoid these three common errors. Your family will thank you.

You can smell it as soon as you step into the walk-in — spoiled food. Sometime during the night there was a power outage, a breaker got flipped or the fridge shorted out. The result is your restaurant now has thousands of dollars in wasted food, all thanks to an electrical issue.

Whether the problem is relatively simple, or more complex, it could be expensive. Here are six ways you can try to prevent restaurant-grade refrigeration meltdown, and hopefully avoid thousands of dollars in food waste.

Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel. But then again, how did the wheel ever become a wheel in the first place?

Some caveman prototyped it — hashed out a design and tested it ‘til it rolled like a stone. And to do that, he had to experiment — play around — until he found something that worked. It’s the same way with custom enhanced finned tube fabrication.

In order to build a fin tube made to order, you need to work with a manufacturer who has the capacity — the experience, capabilities, and infrastructure — to be able to experiment.

You’ve got an idea — a modification, an improvement, an invention to make life easier — but you need to find somebody to build it.

Want in on a secret that only jewelers who aren’t paid on commission are willing to share?

Seen this ad?

“I’m Henry Hill, and I quit smoking with a pharmaceutical — side effects may include farting, seizures, and heart attacks….”

You don’t need to be a Hollywood movie star or a Wiseguy to wonder if there’s a better way to quit smoking than a freaking heart-fart attack.

Can you effectively quit smoking cigarettes with a tobacco alternative like an herbal smoking blend?