“How long will this inspection take?” It’s a question that home inspectors get all the time, and (unless you’re a really crappy inspector who does the same 45-minute inspection every time) there’s really no good answer. There are just too many variables that need to be dealt with to ever be able to accurately assess a job ahead of time. …

Facts matter. So do our opinions. According to collinsdictionary.com, “facts are pieces of information which can be proved to be true.” If we’re using facts to make our point, it’s often a good idea to offer up some supporting evidence to substantiate our argument. Google’s Oxford Languages results say that opinions are “a view or judgment formed about something, not …

Our lives are filled with difficult questions to which there are no easy answers. Does that mean we should stop asking questions? (Maybe that’s one of those difficult questions…)

If asked to respond very quickly, we’d all likely say that we’d prefer something that’s the best in its class: the best car, the best software, the best cup of coffee in the area. But, if given time to ponder such a question, most of us would likely change our answer to whatever is good and dependable. It doesn’t do …

Figuring out who’s the strongest man in the world is a pretty simple thing to do. We gather together all the world’s strong men, ask them to lift some heavy barbells, and see who lifts the most weight. It’s a pretty straightforward thing to measure. Figuring out who’s the best _________ (insert your career here) is a much more difficult …

Tomorrow. You’re always a day away. Song from “Annie” by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin It’s human nature to work on the easy stuff, and put off the difficult things for another time. I’ll do that later. We love to procrastinate. It’s easy to do, and it’s easy to convince ourselves that we’ll get to that important thing. Eventually. I’ve …

We’re all looking for it: success; successful relationships, a successful life, a success career. Success is the prize, the Holy Grail, the goal we’re all striving to reach. But, it’s hard to attain. Success is cryptic, difficult to understand, and even harder to achieve. We can’t help but wonder why more of us can’t break through; why it seems only …

In business, most people try to play their cards close to the vest: working hard to keep their secrets hidden; never sharing the valuable information that they’ve learned with a public that’s eager to know. Like a selfish magician, they show us the trick but refuse to let us in on the secret. But great magicians are different. They’re not …

Many business owners become frustrated by the fact that, when starting a business, their products are not very good. This stress can prove to be so overpowering that we never really get started, because we can’t come up with something that meets our high standards. Let’s take a second to stop and think about this problem. We want to have …

There’s been a lot of noise lately about AI computing and the thought that it’s going to take over all our jobs. The storyline is that, eventually, human workers will be unnecessary. The reality is that there will always be certain jobs, like being a home inspector, for example, that do not lend themselves to AI. That does not mean, …