Are You A "Mouse Potato", Like Me?

The latest business conditions are so demanding, new words and terms are being invented to describe those hardy souls trying to make the best of it, especially small-business owners and other entrepreneurs.

For example, 62% of small-business owners said in a recent survey they're turning into "mouse potatoes" who constantly work at their PC.

Sounds familiar.

I'm pretty much at my PC all day long (and most of the evening hours - I do stop for the dinner hour though)... watching the market and individual stock action during the day (and making comments in several stock trading chat rooms I'm in), and writing my market comments and other articles at night.

Also, that same survey discovered that two-thirds of the respondents eat and work at the same time. One in five also replace breakfast with a "deskfast" (another new word) to maximize productivity.

Me again.

I have my morning "deskfast" - a bowl of cereal (usually Honey-Nut Cheerios, but I'm trying out Just Bunches now) in front of my PC while reading my email and doing other tasks.

Finally, the survey went on to say that even though times are tough right now, the majority of those surveyed are confident that they'll weather the storm. Fully 84% said they'll be in business this time next year in its current form, and 3/4 of them still believe in the "American Dream."

Again, me to a "T". And I hope you as well.

Let's see if I can find a stock for my Members to make that "American Dream" a little closer for us...