Taking It to Work: Here’s a hard question for you. Are you someone who uplifts the people around you, in general, or are you, in general, a “Debbie Downer”? I know we are all a little of both sometimes, but it is a good Biblical question to ask of ourselves. Read more
Taking it to Work: The word sacrifice, unless your a baseball player, is not a very popular word. I don’t even think the batter that hits the “sacrifice fly” is real happy with his pop-up, but at least it comes with an RBI (a run-batted-in for you non-baseball fans). There Read more
Taking It to Work: It may be more commonplace than we would like to admit, but we don’t always work as hard for our boss as we might let on. Daydreaming, surfing the web, extending the lunch hour, reading and sending personal texts or emails; all erode the effort we Read more
Taking It to Work: How many times have you been in a tough spot? A spot you were very worried about, but with your effort and God’s help you got through it. For me, those times are innumerable. I have written a few of them down over the years in Read more
Taking It to Work: Rules. As a kid, we didn’t like them. As we grow, we see the true utility of rules. The fact that everyone knows what side of the road to drive on, that red light always means stop, and green means go. These are good rules or Read more
Taking It to Work: I have always had a difficult time taking the time to plan, yet for most of my life I had positions that required that very detailed plans be made. In the engineering world I was in, the project engineer owned and was responsible for the program’s Read more
Taking It to Work: In March of 2008, I was invited by a business owner to join him at a weekly meeting of other business leaders that were members of an organization called FCCI. At the time, I was working as an engineer in Boulder, Colorado, but was feeling lead Read more
Taking It to Work: Ok, today is the first day of the rest of your life. Every one of us, without exception, wants to improve in the coming year, ,whether it be in our careers, finances, health or our own questionable behavior at times. We all know though, that nothing Read more
Taking It to Work: I remember my grandfather telling me that it was very easy for him to quit smoking. He said he had done it a hundred times. Well, the New Year’s resolutions are coming. If stats are right, about forty percent of us will have at least one Read more
Taking It to Work: I had a boss at work when I just started as a young engineer; he actually was my boss’s, boss’s boss and was way up the chain in my department. He was my senior by about twenty years, and was the meanest, most arrogant, power-abusing manager Read more