Having God’s will at the center of everything you do is a cornerstone ingredient to having a supportive spouse in your business and home life. The Holy Spirit will prompt you in big and small [...]
Part of learning how to grow my business is to be coached. My coach prescribes quarterly review of my success plan / business plan, in a wholistic spirit I set both personal and business [...]
In my last blog we explored John Gottman’s first two of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse towards marital failure: criticism and contempt. We’ll dissect the last two—defensiveness and [...]
To understand John Gottman’s research on why marriage succeed, you must familiarize yourself with the outcome on his research on the signs a couple will likely divorce. Observing the Four [...]
It was obvious Dave Ramsey has been delivering “financial peace” to individuals and couples for decades. Within 20 minutes of his first or second video he pulled the bow of his arrow and hit the [...]
The adage, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat” applies to marriage, too. John Gottman’s book, “Why Marriages Succeed or Fail” highlights practical application of the results of his [...]
I overheard him make the plans. On his way home from work he picked up the perfect wrist corsage. He wore his nicest suit, and waved to the kids and I as he drove to her house to pick her up [...]
In the previous blog I promised to deliver some effective marital chess moves to systematically catapult your marriage to greater charity and intimacy— whether or not your spouse is on board. [...]
There they go a couple of weeks before Christmas: ads with couples in their dining room. He gestures to have her look in the front drive to find a new Lexus with a big red bow. Or you see his [...]
Devout Catholics invest in marriage for the long run— in good times and bad. It often takes a lifetime to grow in virtue in preparation to meet our maker, and sometimes a lifetime isn’t [...]