There is nothing in this life, from which we derive some benefit, that does not come at a cost. Even the most innocuous event, like sitting on a sandy beach watching the sunset, comes with a built-in opportunity cost. When we do something that we would otherwise consider to be happening for free, like looking at the sky or sitting …

It seems that, as we get older, there are fewer and fewer inspectors we can “look up to.” Most of those inspectors have retired (and some didn’t even make it that far.) It’s a hard fact to deal with, but we all get older and we all, eventually, reach the end of the line. Eventually, we’re going to be one …

Nobody said it was easy. Coldplay, The Scientist Wouldn’t our lives be so much simpler if everything was easy? No more difficulty. No more pondering. No more sleepless nights lying awake, thinking about all the things on our plate. No more agonizing choices; no more hard decisions. Everything, just easy. Want to take the day off? No problem. Need to …

If you own a small business, you are well acquainted with marketing, and depending on your persuasion, you either love it or hate it. Regardless of your feelings, positive or negative, marketing is an important part of your overall business strategy. Market well and you’ll likely be doing it for a long time. Fail to do it well and eventually …

The list of cool, hi-tech home inspection tools (toys?) seems to be growing every day. IR cameras, crawlspace robots, drones, 360 cameras; the list goes on and on. With all this amazing technology, it seems like anyone could be an inspector. And they can. In most states, the requirements are slim for individuals looking to get into the home inspection …

Choices. We’re all faced with them. Every day. In fact, we could say that life is nothing more than a stream of never-ending choices, one right after the other. Day in and day out, season after season, year after year, the reality is that we’re not doing much more than making choices. We do this or we do that. Sometimes …

Humans are unique beings; in that we’ve evolved to have consciousness. We can think about the past, present, and future and (usually) react accordingly towards them. It seems, however, that many of us are particularly drawn to looking back. We spend a good bit of time inside our own head, reminiscing, thinking back to some point in our past. We …

Just skating by. It’s an old phrase, and we all seem to have some understanding of what it implies. It’s when someone does exactly what they need to do to get by – whether in school, the workplace, or in their personal life – and nothing more. This is what’s required, so that’s what I’m giving. You give what you …

Change. It’s a pretty mysterious word. It could mean that something good is coming, and it could mean something entirely different. We’ve all heard the old axioms about changing for the better, but we still get that twinge of fear when faced with changing something that we do. Many of us don’t like change, but that doesn’t stop it from …