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Quitting Your Day Job
If you’ve been working as an employee while planning to start your new business, one of the big questions you’ll need to address is when – and how – to leave your job. As excited as you are about your new venture, leaving the security of your current job is a difficult thing to do. Let’s [...]
The Society of Labels
We live in a society where everything eventually draws a label. It’s to the point we’re so trained to put people in a box that we can usually decide within a few minutes of meeting someone or reading the things they write whether they’re our preferred political persuasion or religious belief or football fan. When [...]
Letters from England
Sad to say we do have litter problems here in our green and pleasant land, but things are better than they used to be before we had local amenity sites. Now we can take old cookers, washing machines and the like to these centres for disposal or recycling. Before such sites were made available by the Local Authority, [...]
This Day…
Valentine’s Day is such a mixed bag of emotions for so many people. Are you ready to make a difference? Let’s look deeply into others lives, speak freely of the things we appreciate about others, share willingly those things we can do to improve or stabilize others’ situations. To email, text, write, call, or visit [...]
Say Something NICE and Learn To Love Yourself!
I hope that regardless of where you are in life – dating, married, divorced, re-married, … today you will take time to AFFIRM YOU! Sometimes under stress or during crunch time (in life and in running a business), we forget to show love to those that are the most important to us. In the podcast [...]
The Winter Dead Tree Life
We will all walk through times in our life when we feel the struggle. This video blog is for you.
The S word: SUBMISSION! Should You?
Do submission and doormats go together? NO! God wants you to enjoy a healthy marriage. SUBMIT. Discuss this S word among friends, and you may hear snorts and see eyebrows rise. You know what they may think: Submit? Me? You’ve lost your brain. And yet. . . God (yes, the one and only true God) [...]
It’s Mayo Time
This is it – our week to head north. Mike and I do it once a year, trudging from Arkansas to Minnesota to the medical mecca that is the Mayo Clinic. We practically have it down to a science. We stay at the same place; he drops me off at the same building; I have the same [...]
Obtain Your California State Contractors License with an LLC
The state of California recently passed new legislation making it possible for Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) to be licensed contractors in California. This is big news, as it makes it possible for more companies to do business in California as LLCs. However, there are a few requirements that your company needs to keep in mind to avoid [...]
Committing to Your Home Office.
When you are working from home, you have to make a commitment to your office. When I hear someone say they love working from home because they can stay in their pajamas or sweat pants and tee shirt, I just shake my head. Creating a professional attitude for your home office is critical. Would you [...]
Pay a Compliment Today!
Today is Pay a Compliment Day! I love obscure “holidays”. Any reason to stir up a good time is ok in my book. And, today is just as good a reason as any to be festive. I gave a few suggestions today on The Civilized Minute about how you might pay a someone a compliment, [...]
Don’t Let The Dark Hours Take Control
In our lives as followers of Christ we still struggle with sin. It’s not something we like to discuss because it shatters the illusion of perfection many Christians want to maintain but we have to embrace the reality that none of us can live a sinless life. That means we need to be aware of [...]
