By Your Life inspires and challenges you to connect the last words you heard at Mass on Sunday with Monday through Friday in a secular, business world. By Your Life encourages you live your Catholic faith in the marketplace and to discover that it is good for business. By Your Life offers you practical ways to go forth and glorify God by your life.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
~ Saint Augustine
“Do not be afraid! Open the doors to Christ. God works in the concrete and personal affairs of each one of us. Don’t let the time that the Lord gives you run on as if everything is due to chance. With this expression of my hope I send you all, from the depth of my heart, my blessing.” ~ Saint Pope John Paul II
Sep 26, 2018
A common frustration at work is knowing what needs to be done, but not having the authority to do it. If you feel you lack authority to do the right thing, then this edition of By Your Life is for you.
Sep 20, 2018
It is difficult not worry about our competition. They are out there working hard to take our customers and our good employees away. Without it, we can become complacent. So, with the right attitude, competition is a blessing to us.
Sep 14, 2018
When things go wrong, we look for someone to blame. Instead, we should expect things to go wrong because human intellect isn’t capable of fully synthesizing the complexity of issues and what is efficient, isn’t necessarily the right thing to do.
Sep 7, 2018
Feedback is as much of a gift when it is given as when it is received. Yet many organizations suffer from a lack of accountability because people aren’t comfortable giving and receiving feedback. Effective feedback is truth wrapped in mercy.
Sep 1, 2018
Your vision, mission and values are the blueprint for the business you want to build. Are they gathering dust on a shelf or are they honored and lived by each person in your organization?