TAKING A STANCE FOR ‘SPIRITUAL CONFORMITY’
By Jim Langley Our culture seems to be constantly changing these days. Personally, I have come to the conclusion that I can no longer keep up with, much less conform, to the many cultural shifts that are happening all around us. There was a time when I accepted those social changes as inevitable. However, as a follower of Jesus Christ, I now understand More...
LEARNING TO TAME THE DOG NAMED ‘EGO’
By Robert J. Tamasy The story is told about a night when operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi performed a piano recital at La Scala in Milan, Italy. As he finished his final piece on the program, the adoring audience More...
MARKS OF A FAITHFUL INVESTOR IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
By Matt Bell As the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the investing world grappled with its own upheavals. People who had money in the markets will likely long remember the period from mid-February More...
BECOMING A PLAYER IN THE ETERNAL GAME
By Rick Boxx Author Simon Sinek, in his book, Infinite Game, says he believes the business world for too long has been stuck chasing what he calls a “finite game.” When business leaders simply pursue profits More...
WHY ARE SO MANY OF US SO FEARFUL?
By Ken Korkow For the majority of us, over the past 18 months or so – or perhaps even longer – fear has been a daily companion. Part of it has been the pandemic itself, unprecedented in our lifetimes, which More...
WHO COMES FIRST — THE LEADER OR THE FOLLOWERS?
By Robert J. Tamasy Perspective. It makes a tremendous difference in how we approach life in many ways. If you view life from an optimistic perspective, you can usually find positives in even difficult circumstances. More...
Adaptability, a Tool for Facing Changes
By Sergio Fortes For each of us who labor on the marketplace, change is nothing new. Whether we like it or not, change is a familiar experience, one that happens all the time. Some business and professional More...
SMALL BUSINESSES CAN BENEFIT FROM TRUST
By Rick Boxx The Gallup research organization polled thousands of people to determine in which institutions they had the most confidence. After the military, which was ranked first, small business was second in More...
WHEN ADVERSITY STRIKES, HOW RESILIENT ARE YOU?
By Robert J. Tamasy There is a saying, “Into every life, a little rain must fall.” What an understatement! Sometimes that “little rain” turns into a full-blown storm, one that hangs around for a while. More...
FINANCIAL LESSONS FROM THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
By Jim Mathis Most of us are familiar with Aesop’s fable about “The Tortoise and the Hare.” The humble tortoise challenges the arrogant hare to a race. The quick rabbit jumps to an early lead, then decides More...
