A Cornerstone Is the Foundation of the Foundation
What Is the Cornerstone You’re Building Your Life On? Getting distracted and losing our focus is easier now than ever before. We are flooded with information that can wash away our foundation if we aren’t careful. This even happened when Jesus was alive. In Matthew 21:33-46 Jesus points out to the priests and church leaders […]
Opening the Toolbox & Looking at OneNote
Organizational Tools Are as Important as Any Other…Maybe More Last week I told you that we would open up my organizational toolbox and take a look inside. So, OneNote is the first tool that we’ll look at. Being a self-employed small business owner is a difficult undertaking at best. This difficulty increases exponentially when organization […]
Be More Like the First Son
Actions Speak Louder Than Words In Matthew 21:28-32 is a story about a man and his two sons. The man said to his sons, “Go work in my vineyards”. The first son said he wouldn’t go, but then later he changed his mind and went. The second son said he would go, but never did. […]
How To Get Control Of Your Life
Budget Your Time…You Have a Limited Amount For years I have heard people express frustration with organizing and managing their schedules and “to do” lists. For years I was one of those people. These issues are multiplied when running a business. Not that I have it all figured out but, I’m closer than I’ve ever […]
No One Ever Said Life Would Be Fair
That Doesn’t Mean That We Have to Be Negative The Scripture used in Pastor Lee’s message this week is one that I used to struggle with. In Matthew 20:1-16 Jesus tells His followers a story about a man who hired people to work in his vineyard. Several times throughout the day the landowner went back […]
What Happens When There’s a Change to a Construction Dream?
It Just Gets Better If It’s Done Right It had been four weeks since Jane had been at Lucy’s for book club. Lucy had said she would have Jane over to discuss her construction project in a few weeks when it was finished. “It’s been a month…that’s more than a few weeks.”, thought Jane Jane […]
Forgiveness is More for the Forgiver Than the Forgivee
Anger, Resentment and Hatred Hurts the Carrier the Most We have all known someone who has been wronged and will not forgive. This eats away at them both mentally and physically. They carry this anger around, locked away, waiting to be given to someone and never finding anyone worthy. Forgiveness is the most powerful weapon […]
Building Your Life on a Solid Foundation
Core Values Are the Building Blocks of That Foundation We’re currently working on designing a process for grading or scoring our production teams. We’ve been considering this for years. One of the parameters that we’re looking to base this system on is our companies core values. As we were discussing those core values, I realized […]
People Will Never Agree on Everything
What Matters Is – How We Do It Anywhere there is more than one person there is going to be conflict. This goes back as far as Cain and Abel. Cain had a disagreement with God and took it out on Abel. Too often we act out our disagreements on people who had nothing to […]
How Can I Know What to Do?
Guessing Isn’t a Very Good Plan for Making Business Decisions… Or any other kind of decision for that matter. Over the past several months I’ve heard or asked the question, “What should I do?” This question gets asked about all sorts of things both big and small. Some decisions are more critical than others…Should I […]