by Mark Edge | Oct 5, 2023 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity, Spiritual Health
How often have you been trying to meet a deadline, and a visitor drops by your office? Or you’re selling a product, and you get a service call? Or, as a parent, you lie on the couch while your child naps, only to have the phone ring? Interruptions can exhaust our...
by Mark Edge | Sep 28, 2023 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity, Spiritual Health
I have a friend who grew up in East Texas in Wills Point. He recalled last week that a fellow moved into Van Zandt County a few years ago and began a men’s Bible study shortly after. My friend’s dad joined the group and thoroughly enjoyed it. Deion Sanders...
by Mark Edge | Aug 20, 2023 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity
Organizations that do not show proper care to their people lose employees. Losing employees cost employers money. In her June 30, 2015 article in Bloomberg News, Rebecca Greenfield reported that more employers are changing their emphasis from higher salaries to...
by Mark Edge | May 3, 2023 | Emotional Health
This week the Surgeon General announced that we have in America a crisis of loneliness. According to the doctor, the effects of loneliness are equivalent to smoking twelve cigarettes a day. In other words, this emotional problem can result in physical consequences....
by Mark Edge | Apr 14, 2023 | Emotional Health
I’ve got to admit it. When I think of the name Hank Williams, I think of Junior. He is so embedded in American culture, particularly for those who have been fans of Monday Night Football, hearing his song “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” adapted for the...
by Mark Edge | Mar 17, 2023 | Emotional Health
Last week I spoke to members of the Better Business Bureau. I don’t know if anything I said made an impression, but I do know that something someone else wrote did. Back in the nineties, a newspaper writer included many sad and disturbing items about what was...
