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, […]
Why is it so Hard to Decide Which Thing is More Important Than Another?
Too Often, Prioritizing Comes Down to What the Hottest Fire Is What should I do first? There are so many things to choose from. What makes one thing more important? Today we’ll talk priorities. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks discussing how we make managing our time more complicated than it needs to be […]
It’s Time for “Hot Chocolatey Mornings and Toasted Marshmallow Evenings”
This is a Great Perspective for the Season of Autumn Some people like the season of autumn…some not so much. Some people find the shortening of the days and the cooler weather depressing. An example of this is the lady that noticed her husband becoming grumpy as the days got shorter and overcast. She noticed […]
You Can Choose to Manage Your Time Better or Not…it’s Up to You
Be Intentional About the Actions You Take to Fight Against the Time Monster Last week I wrote about how we tend to make time management more complicated than it needs to be. Making things more difficult than needed is just human nature. Those of us that are self-employed seem to take this to a whole […]
What You Treasure the Most is Where Your Focus Will Be
Lack of Clarity About This Comes with a High Price Tag Most of us have heard the story about the rich man unwilling to sell his possessions and give the money to the poor. Mark 10:17-27 This story often leads people to a misunderstanding of what God is asking of us. It’s not that God […]