Why I do what I do

I'm not really sure...

Are there other jobs out there that I could do? "Welcome to Cinnabon, can I take your order?" Guess there are other jobs I could be doing.

It's days like these that make me wonder.

Web design company in Tempe, Arizona

People wonder what I do all day long. Let me tell you:

web design
website design
web hosting
website hosting
database development
custom application development

Why do we do those thing?

Because we are a website design / development company in Tempe, Arizona.

Silly.

Don't make me have to tell you again.

Happy Anniversary

Jennifer, I LOVE YOU! Happy Anniversary. 9 years and counting. I look forward to future and many more days filled with you in them. Thank you for being my best friend, my wife and now my business partner. Thank you for your patience and tenacity. Thank you for being the best part of my day when I come home every night.

Here's to many more years.

Oh...and Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Sick

I cannot be responsible for things said when I am feeling terrible from sickness. With that said....I need to grumble at someone...have a nice day....

What to say?

Nothing really important, clever or worthwhile going through my head today. Just thought I'd waste a couple of minutes and type a whole lot about nothting. So, here it goes:

















Hope you enjoyed it!

A new book

I started reading a book titled, "Making Room For Life." I know I need to do that. Jennifer & I have a really busy life going now and we don't even have any kids. I couldn't imagine having to run kids to practices, recitals or games the way things are now. I'd never get anything done. So, I've read the first 2 chapters and look forward to what the rest of the book has to say. The question is, will I take any of what I've read and apply it to my life? That will remain to be seen.

So far, so good

I've been pretty productive today. Maybe that's a good indicator of how my days should be going if I get in earlier. Bad habits won't be easy to break. We'll see how the rest of the day goes now.

Start the day early

Jennifer & I have been talking and we realize we need to break out of our routines and start having better habits. This morning I got up earlier than usual and didn't turn the TV on. I got ready for work...and went to the chiropractor.

It's nice to be in the office earlier than normal, but not fun to sit in traffic. Normally I leave after traffic has died down, but I figured I'd chance it this morning. It wasn't too bad. It's not like I have a 2 hour commute like folks I know in other cities, but it still isn't fun dealing with all the slowpokes, lane jumpers, mobile conference callers and rolling make-up artists.

Nevertheless, let's see if I can get productive this early in the morning. I'm brewing some coffee to get it going.

This life is not mine

Strange how different things in our lives get us to take a serious look at where we are going and where we've been. Sometimes it's a traumatic event and other times it's just a simple thought or a song on the radio.

The last couple of week's trials and adventures have gotten me thinking. I've been focusing on work and trying to take care of financial responsibilities and have ignored the really important things in my life. I've become a friend to the world, seeking what it has to offer. I'm grateful that a close friend, possibly my mentor, John & I had some time to sit down and talk recently. He helped me to understand that my choices need to be more carefully thought out. I've been making the wrong things important lately. I've been in the pursuit of financial freedom...when it's my freedom from sin that I should be worried about. Christ didn't die on the Cross for me to be good in business. He died so that I would be saved from the wrath of our Heavenly Father. I have been ignoring that and putting my heart (not 100% either) into business. I haven't been honoring and loving my wife the way I am called to....but rather treating her like an employee and burdening her with my frustrations. How quickly I have forgotten that if I am caring for the important things in my life that God will help in taking care of the rest.

How quickly I have forgotten that apart from Him, I am incapable of anything...but I've been trying my best to go it alone. I am eternally grateful that God at times will step back and let us fall...then come beside us, pick us back up and continue walking with us. The biggest tragedy is that I have lost focus that this life is not mine to live...but God's glory that I was created. I was meant to live for so much more, as the song goes...but that "so much more" was the wrong thing that I was searching for. Money. Not for riches, but just the freedom to know that bills are paid and that my wife and I could enjoy a night out from time to time. That's not what life is about, but that's what I was making mine about. I need to stop and re-focus. My life should not be about me...it should be about what I was created for, glorifying God. All the rest of it will fall into place. There will be peace, joy, love, patience, kindness and many other things in my life if I'd just stop living it for myself.

I hope you all have a great weekend. It's time for me to step away and pray for the strength to not want to be a friend to the world, but a person whose life reflects it's true meaning. I pray also for my family, friends and those with whom I've ever had contact that they too would know the joy that comes from a life of glorifying God.

And the beat goes on

Where has the last couple of weeks gone? Sometimes you need to be careful of what you ask for. I wanted to be busy all day long, but this is crazy. The last few weeks have slipped passed me like Chris Farley as the Hollywood Ninja.

I've been dealing with a client that is demanding that we develop a site that has changed in scope...and expects us to eat the cost because now they've decided they want different functionality. What a hassle.

I've also been dealing with my other business and trying to get all the business details worked out. Not any easy thing at times, but it looks like we are all in agreement that we need to get on the same page before this thing actually launches.

Fun times, my friends, fun times. Just another chapter in my life...but sure is a crazy ride while going through it.