Over the years I have been accumulating things. When I left school to move to Tennessee and when I left Tennessee to move back to Missouri a moving company took care of everything. It was so easy. About a year ago we had to move our own stuff. I decided we have too much crap. While having…
Working With a VA
I am in the process of writing a workbook to help husbands communicate with their wives their want to start a business. I am great at regurgitating information, but I am not great at grammar, punctuation, etc. To help this, I hired a friend to review it for me. I learned a lot from this experience, and…
Getting Your Spouse On Board: The Lizard Strikes Again
I have been working on my book, and I recently had a proofreader review it. I had some resistance to giving it to him but I knew it was my lizard brain. I was afraid of criticism. The funny thing is that part of my day job is having my work reviewed, but for some…
Super Customer Loyalty Series-Not So Super Waiter
I am always looking for the lesson to take away from a bad situation. This helps me find the positive in everything. Last Saturday Andrea, some friends, and I went out to Lidia’s. Andrea has been wanting to go for so long and she was super excited. The long and the short of it was…
Global Warming is a Hoax…
Or maybe it isn’t. I bet this will get me some hate mail. I am going to use this topic to tackle critical thinking, statistics, and asking good questions. Warning, this post is huge. First is to tackle asking good questions. The key questions out there regarding global warming are: is the world getting warmer?…
Getting Your Spouse On Board: Become Extraordinary
I have been thinking that I need to do something unique to stand out. All of the blogs I read are unique and interesting. Right now I feel mine is pretty blah. I cannot come up with an idea on my own. I completely overlooked asking Andrea what she thinks we should do. Maybe I…
New Superpower, Remembering Names
Everyone always says “I am no good with names”. No one is; you have to work at it. If you don’t make an effort to remember names then you won’t. We think in pictures and sounds and not words. Also, in memorizing anything you have to make an effort. Next time you meet someone and…
Multi-Level Marketing Helped Me Find My Superpowers
I will forever be frustrated at people who attack something they do not understand. Consider multi-level marketing (MLM) or network marketing businesses. Many people have quite a negative view of these companies. These are legitimate business models which share a lot of similarities with the company you work for. In the past, there were businesses that…
Super Customer Loyalty Series-Super Car Repair
I know a little bit about car repair but I don’t have much patience, time, or the tools for much of it. About a year ago Andrea was having trouble starting her car and it was beyond my ability to fix it. James Dibben recommended Spillman Auto Service which he used to take all of his business’s vehicles for repair.…
Super Customer Loyalty Series-Super Home Sales
This is a continuation of the Super Customer Loyalty Series. My wife and I wanted to purchase a home in Tennessee in 2007. I began talking to friends and one recommended Susannah Dunn. The main thing that sold me was her willingness to jump right in and get dirty serving her customer. My friend, who recommended her, mentioned her…
Super Customer Loyalty Series-Bad Bank
I was reviewing some notes and I found something referring back to a April 2011 Success Magazine article about customer loyalty by Erin Casey (pg 26 if you are looking). In rereading the article, I remembered why I made the note, I completely disagreed with one statement: “Customer loyalty isn’t dead, at the very least it is…
Twitter is My Offensive Line
I want to do everything to the umpth degree. For example, when I subscribe to a blog I feel obligated to read every one and I feel bad if I don’t. To combat this I set boundaries to filter the information that is allowed to take up space in my life. Normally I become interested in…
Superpowers at Work
As a superhero you need to be willing to make the world a better place. This includes where you work. If you don’t like something at work, don’t go back everyday wondering why someone doesn’t do something about it. You do something about it. Here is an example of something I want to change at…
How Can a Cellphone Reduce Your Superpowers?
The cellphone can be similar to email. We use it to fight fires and avoid taking the time to solve the problems. I have always push back when my company wants me to get a cell phone. I understand the value; if there is a big problem I can be quickly available to help solve…
I Do What I Want
I am continuing to make changes to this website. I feel that I am able to cover more varied topics since living intentionally can encompass so many situations. I want to share some of the things I am doing to live intentionally and share my thoughts about it. Also, I have so much experience in manufacturing and…
Getting Your Spouse On Board:Become a Producer
My goal is to become a producer, creating things I can sell. They might be crappy but I will be pushing against my lizard brain (by the way, I need to avoid trying to waste time studying/learning). Part of this is working on my project every day and setting deadlines. Maybe it is my lizard brain…
Getting Your Spouse On Board:Spending Money
I know one of the things holding me back is my unwillingness to spend money and my unwillingness to ask Andrea if she minds if we spend money on producing something in the business. This year I have asked her if i can spend $500. It can be on learning to grow the business or…
Getting Your Spouse On Board:My Weakness
I think I have covered all of the background of me trying to get Andrea on board. I think I have finally gotten her to trust that I will not throw the family under the buss. My next step is to show her proof that I can make money in the business. I have a problem which…
Getting Your Spouse On Board: Show Me The Money
I have wanted to start a business for a long time and even while Andrea and I were dating it came up in conversation. Once we got married I started talking to her about the possibilities and the things we had to do to get there. That is when I learned about the fear. I am…
Putting One Foot in Front of The Other
I update my hard work page (click here). I update this page about every 90 days. It is interesting to look back at what I put on there last time. I am happy to tell you that I accomplished everything on there. This leads me to think about hard work in general. Hard work…