How Do You Know If Your Servant’s Heart is Focused in the Right Place?
It’s Pretty Simple Really…It’s All About What Your Focus Is On If you have siblings or children, you know how things typically progress with each new child. With the first there is a level of inexperience that leads to caution and overzealous instruction. With each following, things seem to relax. A woman with five siblings […]
What Kind of Jar Do You Want to Use?
This Needs to Be Determined Before We Start Putting the Rocks In Most of us are familiar with the time/priority analogy of putting rocks in a jar. I first became aware of this in Steven Covey’s book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. If you’re not, here’s how it goes: One day this expert was […]
Asking Questions is Often the Best Way to Answer Questions
How Can I Help You? is a Good One to Start With Asking questions is a great way for us to learn and expand our thinking. This is pretty uncommon in today’s world. People tend to be set in their ways and not interested in hearing different thoughts. In the Bible Jesus asks a lot […]
Construction Projects (Like Life) Don’t Have to Be Overwhelming and Daunting
Both Are Within Our Control, But It’s Up to Us to Exercise the Superpower of Choice Overwhelming and daunting is one thing that construction projects and life have in common. Both are big and full of opportunities to make mistakes. This fear of mistakes causes us to drag our feet and not make decisions. Hesitance […]
What Is It That You Want to Be Remembered For?
It’s Better to Answer This Question Sooner Rather Than Later Too often the driving force behind our actions is selfish and inward focused. Even when we’re doing good work that helps others, we turn that around to being about us. In Luke 10:1-20, Jesus sent people out to share His message. When they came back, […]
Independence Is a Good Thing…If it Isn’t the Only Thing
Finding Our Balance as We Walk This Tightrope Called Business As we celebrate our country’s independence on this coming Monday, we need to stop and give thought to what this day means. John Adams wrote this to his wife, “This will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to […]
It Takes Courage to Go Down the Path of Challenge
The Question is, Can You Find Your Hidden Courage? Life is full of challenges. Nobody ever said that life would be easy. If they did…they were lying. Life’s challenges are the things that build character. They are the things that help us to become who we were meant to be. Anything worth doing is a […]
What’s Needed for a Good Construction Contractor is Simple
I Said It Was Simple…I Didn’t Say it Was Easy Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about the difficulty in finding good, qualified construction contractors and how this problem is amplified after a disaster such as a hurricane, tornado, flooding, etc. Finding a good construction contractor is a huge problem and has been […]
Not Everyone Likes Being the Center of Attention, While Some Do
Every One of Us is Different and We Need to Shine Where We’re Meant to Watching kids perform…or not, gives us some insight into who we are as adults. Last week was Vacation Bible School at our church. Sunday the kids had a program during our morning worship. It’s always fun to watch kids perform […]
What Does it Take to be a Good Construction Contractor?
In a Nutshell, the Problem is…There is No Clear Answer to the Question Last week I wrote about what’s missing when rebuilding after a disaster. It turns out that it’s the same thing that’s missing in everyday construction. There’s simply a lack of good construction contractors. So, what does it mean to be a “good […]