Make Every Day of the Year Thanksgiving
Not Just the One in the Month of November 2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. Sure, it’s been confusing and difficult, but it’s not like there hasn’t been confusion and difficultly before or won’t be again. We get to choose our perspective – we can be unappreciative or we can be […]
Who Gets Excited About Doing Home Maintenance?
Really, I Thought I Was the Only One Who Hated It Hate might be a bit too strong of a word for how I feel about home maintenance. It’s not that I necessarily hate it…it’s just that when doing it, it feels more like work than the feelings I associate with HOME. The cool wintery […]
How Do You Stay the Course in Times of Confusion?
It Requires a Clear Understanding of Your Compass The year of 2020 has certainly had it’s share of confusion. It seems to be the focus of many, if not most, conversations. I’m big on talking through things. It’s a great way to process your thoughts. In essence that’s what these posts are…me thinking through my […]
How to Price a Construction Project So That it’s a Win-Win
It Will Require a Change of Mind When pricing a construction project, the terms most commonly used are – estimate, time and material, cost plus. These processes can work when pricing a construction project but are vague about what the final price is going to be. They are more contractor focused. An estimate is just […]
A Hug Will Make It All Better
There’s Hope in a Hug Last week I wrote about struggles of life…loss is one of the biggest. Losing can be; divorced parents, a spouse leaving, a child moving away, or the death of someone close. Grief is the response to loss, particularly someone or something to which a bond was formed. Comfort that can […]
There’s Enough Time to Do Everything You Should
You Can Do Anything You Want, You Just Can’t Do Everything There are so many things to do and never enough time to do them all. This a common battle. The problem isn’t time it’s the long list of things we’re attempting to do. We’ve been given enough time to do everything we are supposed […]
Being a Child of God Shows Us How to Live
It’s Up to Us to Do It Living can be hard. We all experience times of difficulties and feelings of being alone or unwanted. Wouldn’t it be great if when we felt this way we could crawl up on our parent’s lap and just be hugged? Not everyone can relate to this feeling. There are […]
You’ll Never Get the Things You Want Done…Without Being Reminded
How “Outlook Tasks” Can Help You Accomplish This Organization can be difficult to achieve. One monkey wrench that regularly gets thrown into the organizational machine is forgetting things. This can be costly when it’s a meeting with a customer or a deadline for a proposal that’s missed. Too many things bouncing around in our head […]
You Can Choose to Accept Love or Not
Just Know That Not Accepting, Makes It No Less Real There are too many people out there who have not experienced real love. For whatever reason they find themselves in situations that may be called love but is not. I’m fortunate to have been blessed with a loving biological as well as church family. God […]
Putting the Right Pieces in the Right Places
Scheduling is Like a Puzzle…and Who Doesn’t Love Puzzles? Scheduling and planning can be a daunting task, but don’t have to be. Each of us have control over what we do and when we’ll do it. I’ve been writing about scheduling over the past several weeks. I started out with how to get control of […]