Dear Customers and Friends: I’ve learned a lot of lessons in life by simply listening to the wisdom of my parents. One lesson in particular has been embedded in my head and heart for most of my life. It was introduced nearly four decades ago when my father, Jim Syfan,...
Dear Customers and Friends: Our company regularly supports Eagle Ranch, a faith-based nonprofit that is one of the largest children’s residential programs in Georgia. CNN once described it as the “Miracle on Chestnut Mountain” in a story about founder Eddie Staub, who...
Dear Customers and Friends: With “Uvalde” in the Subject Line of my email, many of you will not get around to reading this first sentence. I can hardly blame you. After all, what more can be said about the murder of 19 innocent children and two teachers? (Especially...
Dear Customers and Friends: I hope you are enjoying the warmer weather of springtime. It’s also the time of year when we witness the harvest of beautiful colors from the planting of many seeds. In his business ethics book "Well Done", author Ken Gosnell talks about...
Dear Customers and Friends: Each year in our Northern Hemisphere, the Easter date is set for the Sunday after the first Full Moon of the spring. Biblically, Easter’s occurrence relates back to the Jewish Passover, which was around the time that Jesus rose from the...
Dear Customers and Friends: I have been occasionally sharing good business practices based on biblical principles in our Faith Over Fear series. For this segment, I would like to address the importance of fostering teamwork in your business. In his book Well Done,...
Dear Customers and Friends: Do you remember trading Valentine’s Day cards back in elementary school? It always felt so good to come home with a shoe box stuffed with cards and candy. As we grow older, some people long to recapture that magical feeling again. Sadly,...
Be Present in the Present Dear Customers and Friends: With 2022 now under way, many of us will make our usual New Year’s resolutions... Lose weight. Exercise more. Read more books, etc. How about something different this year? I’d like to suggest promising yourself to...
Be Thankful in Business and in Health Dear Customers and Friends: Did you know that being grateful is good for business, not to mention your health? We are blessed by God to live in the greatest country on Earth. Yet so few of us acknowledge our good fortune....
