I had scheduled a morning meeting with someone this week at Panera bread (I love bagels!). We hadn’t seen or spoken with each other in some time, so I was looking forward to some social distance chatting with him (this Panera has outdoor seating!). I showed up a little early, got…

“What’d ya do this weekend?” That will be the common and most popular question tomorrow when you get back to work (whether in person or in your first Zoom/Teams meeting of the day). This is our chance! We don’t get an opportunity as blatant as this as it relates to sharing…

The other day, I was feeling somewhat down.  It wasn’t bad, and you probably wouldn’t have even realized it if you were around me – but I was.  Then out of the blue, an old friend that I hadn’t heard from in awhile sent me an encouraging message about me writing…

In my new job as a mortgage consultant, there are numerous things I still don’t know how to do.  Fortunately for me, when I am stuck, there are resources within our organization readily available to help me.  We have on our company-wide training site with numerous job aids that explain…

We got snowed in last week! In the Metro Nashville area we had almost 6 inches of snow over the course of several days.  When we lived in Michigan for several years this wasn’t that big a deal because it happened all the time and the state was prepared for…

As I am trying to learn my new job I haven’t been that good lately learning when to stop working all together and be with my family. I love my new job… but the Mortgage Industry is totally new to me!  There are so many nuances to helping people with their home…

I don’t know about you, but I work from home 100% of the time right now due to the pandemic. It seems that many other people are exclusively working from home right now too.  What I have notice more than not is that etiquette has been thrown out the window…

I’m not much of a New Year’s Resolution guy. I’m more of a goal-setting guy.  I haven’t ever been able to keep New Year Resolutions that much, and probably by this point in the new year many folks have already broken or forgotten their New Year Resolutions  – and are…

With the Christmas and New Year season upon us, it has been a time for me to finally take a small break.  Most of the year I have spent hustling to do any type of job I could to generate some revenue until I recently found my new career and…

A loan officer in my state was working a loan with a client in another part of Tennessee.  As they were starting to gather the information needed to help this client, working back and forth with them, they received a message from someone in corporate that asked for permission to…