What’s the Most Powerful Tool in the Construction Contractor’s Toolbox?
This Tool Can Make You More Money with Less Chance of Cutting a Finger Off The past couple of weeks I’ve written about how much we love our power tools and how tools make building easier. The sense of control that comes from pulling the trigger on a power tool is amazing. We feel like […]
We’ve Been Commissioned to Build God’s Kingdom Here on Earth
The Question is…What Are You Going to Do About It? As Christians we are supposed to be God’s builders here are earth. The problem is that most of us don’t bother to look at the Blueprint and we don’t build according to the Architect’s plan. We all have our idea of what we expect it […]
Can You Imagine What It Would be Like to Build a House Without Power Tools?
So, why is it That Most Construction Contractors Will Do Proposals Like That? Think about building a house by sawing every board and sheet of plywood with a handsaw. Mixing the concrete all by hand. And driving every nail with a hammer. This sounds like a long drawn out, difficult method for building. This is […]
If You Don’t Want to Feel Stupid for Eternity…Don’t Waste Your Life
There’s a Limited Amount of Time in This Life, So Spend it Wisely Knowing the future is less about knowing and more about doing. None of us know what’s going to happen tomorrow, next week or next year. We can only control what we’re doing right now. Things we do now, affect the future, either […]
What is it About TOOLS That Building Contractors Love So Much?
Wielding a Power Tool Gives Us a Sense of Control and Respect Those of you who build, know what I mean. Feeling that power in our hands. We are in control, but the machine can never be tamed. We have to respect it, or we will regret it. We pretend to be in charge of […]
Why is it That We Don’t Think What We Have to Offer is Worth Anything?
Even The Smallest of Things Can Make the Biggest Difference Feeling that we have nothing to offer is the perspective of most people. God has given each of us a purpose to fulfill and when we don’t…we’re letting Him down. We have this mindset that if we aren’t doing some huge earth-shattering thing that it […]
Things Will Go Much Smoother When the Contractor Knows How to Speak Customer
The Importance of Learning a Foreign Language When Doing a Construction Project It’s difficult to understand someone speaking a language you don’t know or understand. Imagine being in a country that speaks a different language and trying to explain something. This is the same thing that happens with construction customers and contractors. The contractor says […]
What is True Love and What Does it Look Like?
Life is Full of Difficulties, But Love Makes It Easier to Get Through Them We all experience difficulties in life. Some are more severe than others. Sometimes these situations can suck us down into depression and we just want to hide under the covers and stay there. This is how Naomi felt after their family […]
How To Manage Your Time and Prevent It from Becoming a Horror Story
Self-employment is Scary Enough Without the Time Monster Chasing You With this being Halloween season there are a lot of scary things out there. Managing your time as an entrepreneur doesn’t have to be one of them. Over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed time management and how to keep it from being as complicated […]
The Untapped Power of the Mind is the One Thing That Keeps Most of Us Stuck
But the Mind Can’t Do It Alone…it Requires Action as Well Why is it that we doubt what we know? There are countless examples of the power of the human mind, yet we think… “this power only works for other people, doesn’t apply to me”. Not only is this lack of belief directed at ourselves, […]