Sam Dressner and Stress
April 3, 2009
Sam Dressner had a number of unique ways of dealing with stress. When he was a younger man and I was a child. living with him, my mother Irene and my brother Joe we lived in Queens and he worked in the family business All In One Suppliers.
When my father Sam, got stressed out most likely he became angry. You could see the anger rising in his face and neck because he got reder and rerder and is voice raised. Apparently he showed his anger at work and he definitely did at home. He was not the type of man you wanted to cross under any circumstances.
A second way my father Sam worked with strerss was smoking. He may have smoked two to three packages of citarettes each day. At the time they were much cheaper and both he and my mother and my brother Joe smoked.
It was in the fifties throuugh the seventies where smoking was accepted and people did not heed the warning about smoking being a cause of lung cancer or heart attack.
When he was fifty eight or fifty nine he began to get angina and had difficulties breathing. He has a small heart attack and decided to have by-pass heart surgury. This was in the nineteen seventies and I was working at Seton Hall University as an assistant professor of Political Science haveing completed my Ph.D. in Public Administration.
After his heart attack and the bypass surgery he was sixty years old and he made an attempt to stop getting angry. He gave up cigarettes cold turkey and made an attempt to lower his stress or find better ways to let it out. This is a terrible way to live with stress. It was the dammage to his heart from smoking that eventually brought him down. I love him, he was my business partner and I learned about not being an angry person.
Ira Dressner, PCC
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Sam Dressner
April 2, 2009
My dearly loved father Sam Dressner passed in Nomember 2006. He was almost 88 years old. He was a wonderful man who guided me in becoming an entrepreneur. I am going to write a number of posts about him because of his influence upon me. Every person ought to have such a loving, caring father as I had.
I began to learn about being an entrepreneur when I was a kid. My father worked on the catalog for All In One Suppliers Inc, a store in NYC where I worked with him for over 30 years. Sam Dressner brought home publicity and papers that needed to be stuffed into envelopes and I believe he paid my brother Joe Dressner and myself one penny for stuffing each envelope. I remember doing this activity for an entire weekend and thinking I was making some money to buy comic books. In working with the materials I was beginning to get an idea of what it was like to be in business.
My father, Sam, spent many hours working on the All In One Suppliers catalogue for for than 30 years. I always asked him how he selected products and how he differentiated one product from the next. These were some of the lessons I learned about entrepreneurship.
Knowing that my father approved and encouraged me to be an entrepreneur, find new products for All In One Suppliers as well as for my other interests greatly encouraged me in life.
Next update: How I went from being a college professor to an entrepreneur.
Writing about my father on the blog is bring me a sense of peace and a feeling of being less stressed. Starting the day reflecting on the person who gave me the intuitive sense to know about products and business is remarkable in keeping me focused.
Ira Dressner, PCC
www.releasestresssyystem.com
www.lifeenergyjewelry.com
www.energyblueprintformoney.com
