Revisiting the Slumps

September was a difficult month for my business. We did some research and found that we weren’t the only ones! September is the end of the quarter, kids are going back to school, parents (many who are small business owners) are paying for school clothes and also those activities and extras that they hadn’t planned…

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Fallen Leaves: Part One

You hear the stories all the time.  You catch the whispers between the church pews.  Pretty soon someone will come up to and ask, “Did you hear that The Smith’s son was arrested for doing drugs?” The congregation is consumed with how a dedicated deacon’s daughter was caught with a boy in her bedroom.  There…

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Marriage – The Great Teacher

When it comes to marriage, a definite paradigm shift needs to take place in the “all about me” line of thinking that at times beleaguers many of us in our human selfishness. If our marital mindset centers on how our spouse should meet our needs and be a provider of our happiness instead of how…

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