You Should Obey Your Boss
So, who is your boss?
Labor Day and My Problem With It
The Difference of Labor and Work Labor Day is one of my three favorite holidays each year. Christmas being my favorite. (This is no big surprise). Labor Day and New Year’s Day are tied for the second spot. These two are not typically ranked in most people’s top three. My extended family celebrates both holidays […]
Learning is How We Find Solutions
And We Never Stop Learning as Long as We’re Alive In this week’s sermon, Pastor Lisa used algebra as an example of learning. Really, algebra… I never was a fan of algebra. I could never understand why it was necessary to mix the alphabet in with math. People that like algebra naturally get it. Not […]
What are Your Core Values?
They are the Foundation of Your Business I was having a discussion with a sub-contractor. They were venting their frustrations with a general contractor they had worked for. This GC bid the project low to get it. Then after getting it, continued raising the price through change orders. The sub-contractor felt this was dishonest and […]
Life is Full of Choices
One of Those Choices is Repentance We all make mistakes. Some mistakes are more serious than others. The thing to remember is that the mistake doesn’t have to be the end of the story. King David is remembered as someone after God’s heart even though he made a lot of mistakes. One of the reasons […]
Delegating is a Part of Building That I’m Not Very Good At
Working on the Business is Not The Same as Working In It Even after being in business for more than forty years and all that I’ve learned over that time…there is still more to learn. Delegating is one of those areas where I need to do better. I’ve just recently finished reading the book The […]
Life is Like a Pencil Maze
And They’re Easier with Help A maze is defined as, “A path or collection of paths typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching (“unicursal”) patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to […]
Connections Can Help You BUILD Your Business
And You Never Know Where Those Connections Will Come From The first couple of years as a self-employed construction contractor were a lot different than Gene expected. He’s beginning to wonder if owning his own business is worth it. It certainly isn’t what he expected. All the headaches and problems that he’s encountered are causing […]
The Kind of Clothes You Wear is Up to You
What Kind of Clothes Are You Wearing? Clothes are an outward indication of who we are or want to be. This is evident in commercials and advertisements. The latest and greatest thing is bombarding us everywhere we look. How we dress is one of the first things people see. Our clothes show others who we […]
Construction Customers Can Be Hard Work
As a Contractor What Did you Expect? As someone who has been in construction for more than forty years, I’ve worked for my share of hard customers. This does not mean that they are bad customers. On the contrary, more often than not the opposite is true. They are the best customers because they have […]