We just got finished hosting our third annual yard sale in a row to raise money for our daughter’s high school dance team. 100% of the proceeds go straight to the team budget.  Everyone from the team, friends and strangers donate stuff for the sale.   We keep it at our…

We had some folks from our corporate home office visit us last week.  Normally, in my previous jobs, this was a big deal.  Having folks from Home Office visit was a chance for me to meet them and get to know them personally. I would also able to ask them…

Easter is such a wonderful time!  The reminder of how Christ is Risen and all that He did and does for us every moment of our lives… It’s immeasurable!  I can get caught up though at home and at work with how commercialized it has all become. Easter egg hunts….

I go into the office at least once or twice a week.  We have a nice small suite in a three story office building just outside of Nashville in a popular “office building area” with a bunch of other folks who are in the same office building.  There are a ton…

I just closed a loan on Friday that was one of the most difficult ones I have done.  But it was also one of the most rewarding.  The young man I helped was renting a house and the owner’s husband recently passed away.  She decided to sell her rental house along with…

My morning routine has gotten in a rut.  The morning time has always been my most productive time and it still is, but lately I have found myself wasting it away.  Reading useless things on the internet, working on laundry, or even walking around in circles moving stuff in the…

Over the course of my career I have been in more sales meetings than I can remember.  Some have been productive. Many have not been.  My current weekly sales meeting is actually very helpful. We talk about some of the struggles and successes we all are facing with different clients and…

We have been cooped up due to the snow and ice for the last week.  It started last Sunday and hasn’t stopped since.  School has been out all week and although businesses opened up some starting Wednesday, it rained Thursday and on Friday the temperatures dropped so the roads turned…

It’s that time of year again.  We all do the same thing.  We submit in our minds or on paper or tell our friends our New Year resolutions. I’ve been making many of these same resolutions each year ever since I can remember!  I don’t do so well at it…

I’ve been to my share of office Christmas parties over the years.  From the basic get together during lunchtime in the break room all the way to the large extravagant “throw down” complete with my managers breaking out their instruments and putting on a full fledged, real deal concert (remember…