What We’ve Got Here, Is A Failure to Communicate
And What Can Happen When We Don’t The above title is a famous line out of the 1967 movie, “Cool Hand Luke”. In the movie Lucas Jackson, played by Paul Newman, is a guy with more guts than brains, a man who refuses to conform to the rules. After being sent to a prison […]
Sharing the Shovels
Moving the Mountain One Shovel at A Time One of the most difficult things that I struggle with is delegating. By nature, I try to do everything. It is my business and serving my customers is my responsibility after all. This can only work if I limit what I’m going to do. I can’t […]
Don’t Get Snowballed by Poor Planning
It Only Works If You Use It Here it is the beginning of another year already. It is crazy how fast they go by. I was talking with someone earlier today about how poorly I had done at writing blogs this past year. I told them it had been six months since I last posted. […]
The Wisdom of a Life Plan
Instructions from an Old Man On a Mountain Since the beginning of the new year I have been working to get my ‘life plan’ for this year completed. As a part of this process I spend time looking back over the last year specifically and my life in general. I am naturally a people […]
Opening the Tool Box & Looking at OneNote
Computer Tools Are as Important to Construction as a Saw or a Hammer Being a self-employed small business owner is a difficult undertaking at best. This difficulty increases exponentially when organization and communication are operating poorly or not at all. This problem only increases when you’re successful and there are more things to […]
Using Core Values as My Life Filter
The Core Is What Holds All of the Good Stuff Together I have been studying and researching for the past several years on how to be the best ME. To become who God intends ME to be. As a part of this quest, I have been working on designing and living a life plan. This […]
A New Year, A Clean Slate
Why Did the Turkey Cross the Road? It’s just a few days until the start of a new year. This start represents an opportunity for new possibilities. The thought of this can be exciting. The chance to do better…to be better. This is what encourages us to make ‘New Year’s resolutions’. The process […]
Christmas Movies and a Life Plan
The Similarities of Fiction and Reality I love Christmas time and especially Christmas movies. There are the classics of course; Miracle on 34th St., White Christmas, A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life, etc. There are a bunch of TV Christmas movies that are really good as well. Then there are some great shorter […]
Window Shopping…Really I Mean Shopping for Windows – Part 3
Even More Things to Consider When Buying Windows I know that it seems that I have written a lot about windows in this ‘Window Shopping’ series. I think one of the issues with construction in general and this topic of windows specifically, is the lack of information people have before deciding what to buy. […]
Dreaming About Budgeting
The Roots of the Financial Planning Tree A few weeks ago I wrote about the 4 W’s of budgeting. That post was an overview of the WHY, WHAT, WHERE AND WHEN of budgeting. It was a quick look at the purposes for budgeting from the outside. It didn’t answer the question of HOW […]