For almost 3 years Zappos has been most fortunate to have Dr. Vik as our inhouse “Coach” to help Zapponians empower themselves for overall wellness, life planning, perspective and balance. And so it was one year ago today that Dr Vik, started posting a daily thought about not just these areas but on other newsworthy topics. His first post kicked off our May Wellness month last year. Here’s his 365th post.

Some people better watch out…

By Dr Vik | April 30, 2008

Because I know we All can get happy at the drop of a hat.

Whether it’s in a super market, standing in line, at a restaurant
or at work…we may just bust out in sheer unbridled laughter, which
usually puts the kibosh on anyone even trying to be serious.

We can attempt to not think about all the funny things and great
times we had and will have, but occasionally we can slip up and change
the vibe of everything around us…so if you are always serious…you better watch out.

Yours in “Life is Pretty Sweet” - Coach

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And please visit DrVik.com where you can learn more about Dr. Vik and also view the archive of his posts from the past year.

<Dramatic Dunh Dunh Dunh music> All good things must come to an end and Thursday was the last day for our brave band of Las Vegas Encounter adventurers. They visited with both Marketing and Creative Services and then met with our Life Coach, Dr. Vik. Our Marketing team has grown more than most departments at Zappos in the past year. We’ve become much more visible online, in print, and now, on television. We’ve also become much more active on the relatively invisible side of the internet by more closely planning and managing our online presence.

Our Creative Services team has also grown a fair amount, both here in Las Vegas and in Kentucky.
As the number of items we carry increases, the number of photographs taken and the number of web pages, complete with fresh graphical elements, also increases. These Zappos blogs were a recent project for Creative Services with help from Marketing, Development and System Administration. A huge commitment is our website renovation project. That’s a fine balancing act right there – too little change and what’s the point – too much change too fast and that’s not good either.

And of course no trip to Zappos in Las Vegas is complete without a visit with Dr.Vik, our fulltime, onsite Life Coach. Besides the bestowing of paper crowns and pictures sitting on the throne, everyone is encouraged to speak their mind, about good or bad, personal or public, to Dr. Vik. He’s an essential element to keeping our culture just right!

Next, we took some group pictures at the famous “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign. Here’s the group on the backside of the sign. They are spelling out "LVE KY" with their bodies.