What Does the Customer’s Piece of The Etiquette Puzzle Look Like?
You Have A Responsibility in This Process Too The last two Weekly Solutions have been about the missing pieces of the etiquette puzzle, mostly from a business perspective. Today we are going to look at the customer’s responsibility in this. The customer’s piece isn’t much different from that of the contractor’s. Customer etiquette to the […]
Principles Are Like A GPS For Life
They Help Us Get Where We Want to Go Making our way through the difficulties of life can be hard. There are bumps, unexpected turns, detours and road blocks. When we start the journey, we think we know exactly where we’re going and how we’re going to get there. Surprise! If we just had a […]
A Missing Piece of The Puzzle
What Ever Happened to Contractor Etiquette? Last week I wrote about etiquette after a friend had a plumber spit tobacco juice in her sink while they were talking. The lack of professional conduct (especially in the building industry) baffles me. As I have been considering this topic it’s become apparent to me that this piece […]
Happiness Is An Inside Job
Too much of the time we are looking for happiness from things on the outside. Happiness is not dependent on health, wealth or food. It’s not that there is anything wrong with having any of these things. The problem is when they become our focus, ‘they have us’. What is important is our focus. It […]
What in The World Does Etiquette Mean Anyway?
It Means Treating Others the Way We Want to Be Treated Or at least the way we SHOULD want to be treated. I had a conversation with a friend recently about an experience they had with a plumber. While they were standing in the kitchen talking about the project, the plumber spit tobacco juice in […]
Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
Rev. Paulin started his message with a story from a church where he used to pastor. During the children’s time there was a small boy struggling to get free from his parents to go up front with the rest of the children. After children’s time was over and the kids had returned to their seats, […]
What Does It Mean to Be Successful?
It’s Not What People Normally Think Success, true success is anything but normal. Dave Ramsey says, “If You want to succeed, you’ve got to be weird.” It is hard to be different. Standing out and being different opens us up to criticism and ridicule. It’s much easier and safer to blend in and go with […]
Hang In There!
It is hard to “Hang In There”. Holding on for dear life with the weight of the world on our shoulders. It’s lonely hanging there all by ourselves as our arms get more and more tired. We just want to let go. DON’T LET GO! We forget or are unaware that we don’t have to […]
How Do You Make Your Dream Become A Reality?
It’s A Choice You Make…Or Not! It doesn’t matter if you’re dreaming about building a new home, a successful business or a great life, you have to choose to make them a reality. The importance of intentionality to dreams is critical to the outcome. This week I’ve been working on finalizing the proposal for my […]
Today, The Scripture Has Been Fulfilled In Your Hearing
The Bible can seem like an old history book. Full of things that are irrelevant to us today. This could not be further from the truth. Sure it’s a book full of history…but it’s so much more. It is the “Living Word”. John 1:1-4 says, “1In the beginning there was the Word. The Word was […]