It’s a Lot Easier to Say Something Than It Is to Do It
Actions Speak Louder Than Words We’ve all heard this phrase, “Actions speak louder than words.” It’s a pretty common saying. It is believed to have originated during the English Civil War. John Pym, an English parliamentarian, coined the expression in 1628. He said, “A word spoken in season is like an Apple of Gold set in […]
Goal Achieving is a Better Plan Than Goal Setting
Too Often Once the Goals Are Planned…We Forget the Achieving Part This is like having plans to build a building and once you get the blueprint drawn…you stop. You have a picture you can hang on the wall, but the building never gets built. Having a plan before you start is good, but it’s not […]
Worrying About Things Can Really Suck the Energy Out of You
The More You Know Before You Need to Know it, the Better Equipped You’ll Be Disaster movies are popular and generally do well at the box office. Who doesn’t like a story where everything is crashing down and the underdog hero steps up and saves the world, even though they didn’t think they could. This […]
Urgency Can Be Good or Bad, Depending on How You Use It
I Find That Intentionally Creating a Sense of Urgency Can Increase Productivity How you view and handle urgency is a choice. You can choose to use urgency to your benefit, or you can let urgency be a negative thing. When something has urgency, it requires speedy action. If you’re standing in your front yard and […]
When We Ask God Man-sized Questions, We Are Limiting the Answers We Get
We Need to be Asking God Sized Questions Instead Asking a man-sized question is a sure way to get a man-sized answer. As humans it makes sense that we think in human terms, because we are human after all. But what could be possible if we quit limiting ourselves? Because when we incorporate these limitations, […]
How Does One, Make All They Can, Save All They Can, Give All They Can?
At First Glance, One Naturally Thinks Money…but it’s So Much More I started writing about my core values as a life filter back in January of 2017. Core values are an important part of intentionally living our best lives, the lives that God has designed for each of us. In that first post I said […]
Why is it That Many People Feel Like They Need to Hide in Plain Sight?
Zacchaeus Wanted to See Jesus, But Didn’t Want Jesus to See Him Is seems that most of us feel inadequate and unworthy. We think everybody else has it way “more together” than we do. Why do we, more often than not, sell ourselves short of our God given value? We just don’t feel like we’re […]
Why is it That Businesses Put More Emphasis on Sells Over Service?
It Doesn’t Have to Be One or the Other…It’s Our Job as Businesses to Find Both When thinking about business ownership or leadership, the focus often is on making a lot of money. Not that there’s anything wrong with making money. The problem is when money becomes the driving factor. We’re all aware of those […]
Why is it That We Too Often Confuse Simple and Easy?
No One Ever Said That Living Right Would Be Easy I recently read a blog post from Rabbi Evan Moffic titled, The Difference Between Simple and Easy. As someone who is good at making simple things more complicated than they need to be, I had a light bulb moment while reading. I realized how much […]
How Long Should a Contractor Keep Construction Project Information?
I Plan to Keep Mine Forever and I don’t Think That’s Any Too Long As a note taking nerd, I tend to gather and keep a lot of information. Some people would say that I go overboard with this…and maybe I do. Like note taking, the storing of construction project information is going to be […]