Holiday decor and store displays remind us the holiday season quickly approaches. While this time of year offers a wonderful source of cheer, the holidays increase feelings of sadness and despair for some. We all experience the blues once in a while. But feelings that persist two weeks or more or those that interfere with […]
What does the term “financial success” mean to you? As a professional financial planner, I know the first and most important interaction I have with people is the initial meeting, where my job is to listen well as I complete a success inventory that tries to capture clients’ values, situations, goals and challenges in a […]
The holiday season is just around the corner. While most of us look forward to gathering with family and friends, the holidays also bring stress that takes a toll on our health and workplace productivity. For many businesses, this is crunch time. Increased sales and service deliveries, end-of-year reports and completing projects before winter weather […]
One of the biggest differences between creating raving fans out of your customers or not is getting the multitude of basic things right on a consistent basis. Just a moment of reflection on your own experiences will reveal your favorite businesses — the ones you frequent often and enthusiastically tell others about — are those […]
Is Mesa County still trying to work its way out of the recession of 2008? Yes. Are there plenty of vacant industrial buildings from which to choose? Yes. Is this a great time to buy? Emphatically yes. Remembering the days of the oil shale bust in 1982, recall that it wasn’t until six years later […]
A silent shift occurred sometime during the first quarter of 2015, when the millennial generation became the largest cohort in the United States workplace. Millennials ousted baby boomers, who’ve had the highest work force participation for all but three of the last 25 years. That’s according to the Pew Research Center, which also noted in […]
Fall can be a season when exercise routines waiver. It’s too cold to continue with many of the summer activities you enjoy. You could even become a little blue with the realization summer has ended and your favorite activities are over for a while. Still, fall brings with it many other opportunities. Here are five […]
As Americans prepare to celebrate National Veterans Small Business Week Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, I thought it might be appropriate to offer an overview of U.S. Small Business Administration programs and services for veterans and their spouses. This theme of National Veterans Small Business Week is “Veteran Entrepreneurs: Success Across Generations,” which will highlight […]
If you knew thousands of dollars were circling the drain at your business every year because of a single behavior, would you address the situation? What if you also knew this behavior caused more deaths than accidents, AIDS, alcohol abuse, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined? It’s difficult to imagine ignoring something that causes this […]
Across the country, it seems people are more engaged in politics than ever before. It’s difficult to go more than an hour without hearing about the latest developments in the 2016 presidential race; from Donald Trump releasing his economic plan to Hillary Clinton committing to all three presidential debates. We are met daily with a […]