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 […]
Learn from the Past – Look to the Future – Live in the Present
Be Persistent in Pushing Toward the Goal We all have specific gifts and talents that were given to us by God. These skills allow us to accomplish the results that God wants for us and from us. We can choose what we do with these God given abilities. We can use them for good or […]
Your Business Doesn’t Have to be a Scary Movie
How to Avoid Business Disaster Have you ever noticed how in horror movie’s people make the worst possible decisions? The Geico commercial where the young people decide to hide behind the chainsaws (while funny in the commercial) is way too real for most construction companies. In the commercial they choose to ignore the one running […]
People Are the Foundation of the Church
Jesus Is Building “It” On Believers In Matthew 16:13-20, Jesus asks those following Him, “Who do people say that I am?” Peter’s answer was “You are the Christ, the Son of God.” Who do you say that He is? Jesus tells Peter, “You are the rock on which I will build my church.”. This is […]
It’s Really Not That Difficult
Six Ways to Find the Right Builder for You When we called a customer to give them production schedule plans for their construction project, they were relieved to hear from us. They hadn’t heard from us since we met to sign paperwork and get their first payment, a few days earlier. They were concerned that […]
Faith is Not for the Weak of Heart
You Have to be Intentional and Use It Once again, this past Sunday technology wasn’t playing nice. The internet at the church did not want to cooperate. Life is full of things not going as we plan. This morning my truck decided to be unagreeable and was not accelerating properly. My mechanic is only a […]