Category: Tips & Opinions

Helping Others:  Are you helping others out of the goodness of your heart, for them, or are you helping others because you get something from it? What is your agenda when helping others? Sometimes, we help others because it fulfills something in our lives.  For example, I have helped others in my life because I […]

Work Clothes Allowance: Some companies have this, and some don’t. If you require your staff to purchase items that they only need for working there, you should consider giving them a clothing allowance.  For example:  steel toe work boots.  If people are required to purchase these in order to work in the business, they should […]

Phenomenal People: I have had the amazing pleasure throughout my life to get to know numerous Hutterite people, on a personal and professional level. They are a tremendous community of generous individuals.    When they hear of a need, they do their best to fill it and help out. They just helped to feed supper […]

Make Life Easier:  Sometimes, we get tired of the regular routine – especially about this time of year.  I think it has something to do with the cold, snow, and just hanging out in the house… Around this time, I get tired of doing the dishes, cooking, cleaning, laundry, shoveling, etc. So, give yourself permission […]

Impact:  I briefly touched on this word yesterday. As we go through this next week, I believe we will start to have a greater understanding of this word on our lives. The definition of the word impact is: a powerful effect that something, especially something new, has on a situation or person: (taken from) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/impact Think back over a time in your life, […]

Distance:  There are times during our relationships that we must spend some time apart. I recently saw a saying that said “Distance doesn’t matter when the roots of your relationship are strong enough”. We have all heard that “Distance makes the heart grow fonder”. To me, there are a few things that go with the […]

Freedom Convoy:  I am all for freedom of speech, for our rights and freedoms, etc. and I support and commend those who are willing to stand up for their rights and the rights of others. As I have stated previously, I remain neutral on a lot of the things that have happened during the past […]

Our children:  This pandemic has changed many things throughout the last two years.  The one that I think it has impacted the most is our children.  All ages – wearing masks all day and many not understanding why. The germ free environment of chemicals being used to keep them from getting sick.  Missed school days, […]

Lack of Workers:  As people are getting short on employees (and some companies are), please remember that honesty is the best policy. Exaggerating or being dishonest, to get the employees to come on board or sign up, may get the employee in the door, but it may not keep them, in fact it will not […]

Crisis:  Who are you and what are you like during a crisis? How would you describe yourself when you are in the midst of a crisis?   How would those around you describe you when you are in a crisis? You can say all kinds of things of who and what you are like during a […]

Ups & Downs in Business:  In business, it is natural to have its ups and downs.  During different times in history, certain types of businesses have struggled and others have thrived. For example, how many people would have thought 2 years ago that companies that made face masks would be thriving? So, which category does […]