Picture it, the Hirn household after 5 days of winter break, painful. One child is jumping off of a couch asking for candy. Another is screaming in a timeout because he threw his brother’s new toy and when sternly told to go get it and give it back he responded with a, “Why don’t you […]
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This week is magical, the week between Christmas and New Year’s. You’re fresh off the high of seeing the wonder, the twinkle, the joy, and the appreciation of Christmas on the faces of everyone you come in contact with. Whether it is face-to-face, over a family Zoom call, or, best of all, on the faces
I may have shared before how much I hate Fridays. People always seem to need things by the end of the week and if that comes up on Monday cool beans, but when it comes up on Friday that’s just a gentler way of saying, make my need your top priority and get it done
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If you ever have the opportunity to build your own home I highly encourage it. I am currently in the process of building our third, and final, home (fourth actually if you include that my parents built ours when I was kid). It is an amazing process to start from nothing but a plot of
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I played a lot of sports in high school “Lettering” all four years and starting in many of them. That sounds good right; should I stop there? I’ll be honest, I was pretty awful. The reason I played all of the sports and on paper sound like Amy Athletic is because our school was so
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A lot of what I do centers around continuous improvement. I lead groups of people who are singularly focused on their own niche way of making things better. Whether that be an improvement to a form that allows them to be compliant with a regulation, identifying areas of improvement in quality handling of a situation,
How frequently do you play farm? No, just me? Ok well then allow me to let you in on this riveting game that is played in my house at least once a day every single day of the week. Playing farm is when you drag out every single truck, trailer, tractor, combine, grain bin, silo,
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When was the last time you were passionate about something, anything really? Maybe you’re living your passion right now and that would be amazing but lets be honest, most of us have to look back a few years to find a time that we had a true passion project, if we can find one at
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You are the sum of the 5 people you spend the most time with. We’ve all heard this before right. Typically it makes a lot of sense because, we’re typically spending time with people. For the past several months, and fast approaching a year believe it or not, our circle of 5 people has changed.
Building trust is like making Mac & Cheese. (Obviously one of the great adages of our time.) You can go the instant route and it will check all the boxes but in the end its just not right. Slow and steady carefully working in each step is the only way to make it just right.
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