Building the Life of Your Dreams and Loving It
A Builder’s Valentine Message I love my vocation. The purpose for which we have been created, is so much more than a job. I love waking up every morning and knowing there are countless possibilities and opportunities to help people build their dreams. I mean I really love my life. Is it perfect? No, […]
What Is the Cost of Cheap?
The Importance of Knowing What You’re Getting, Before You Write the Check Too often people decide to move forward with a construction project without asking the right questions. It is important to get the answers before you start. What is the purpose or reason for the project? Who is going to do the work? […]
The Importance of Helping Your Customers Dream Big
Building Your Very Own Barbie Dream House As builders it is important to encourage your customers to dream big. Sure they may have a budget that won’t allow them to do everything they want, but it’s also important to not begin the dreaming process with a limited belief. Our job as the contractor should be […]
Getting Back to the Core
Ideas Without Actions Don’t Do Anybody Any Good “I AM A PERSON OF ACTION.” “My future is immediate. I will grasp it with both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act!” Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain […]
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 […]