Keep Your Head About You

            It is hard to keep you head in the project when things aren’t going well or as planned.

We all have had days when we felt that it would have been better to have stayed away from the project. However, for many of us we can’t just go home when things aren’t happening the way we like. Have you ever misplaced a tool or look for that piece you need to install next. That wasted time looking is frustrating. When that happens to me, I start cleaning the project. It is important to keep your project clean for a few reasons:

• Inspector can and do leave job-site which are uncleaned or have scatter debris throughout them. This is because the job-site appears unsafe to them.
• I have talked about people coming to my job-sites inquiring about the possibility of having me do a project for them.
• Most accident on the job-site happen when we do something stupid. When you see a potential problem that is the time to address it before it is a problem.

I know of a man who cut his finger off his last hand the last hour before he could retire.

He was in a rush to get away and a thought crossed his mind about his worm-drive not cutting through the plywood deck. To check to see if it was, he ran his hand under the plywood to check and cut of his fingers. It was his only injury (excluding minor things) from 25 years in the union.

Another reason to keep your job-site clean is it is the law.

You may think it to be over the top or none of their business.

They think it is their business because they make money keeping you healthy.

When I was in the service each morning during Basic, I’d wake up and make my bunk in the military manor. In fact, there was a routine of how I approached the day. Some of these things seemed silly at first but when I became the guy in charge, I noticed that those who did those little things correctly had better days. There seems to be a connection between doing the little things correct and tackling the more difficult task.

What do you think your odds of a person signing with you if they get hurt on your project are? I also think others look about and think to themselves that they don’t do the little things right, how I trust them to handle the bigger projects. Or they may think they don’t obey the simple laws that benefit them, how can I trust them to obey the laws which benefit me?

Note: Images on this blog site are from a free source or taken by the author. No image or group of photos is intended to represent the people the author serves. The author does not care about Race (that is a politically correct term that he does not like because we are all of the same Race, the Human Race. He prefers the term ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender, marital status, disability, genetic information, national origin, source of income, Veteran or military status, ancestry, citizenship, primary language or immigration status.) He is a service provider for all people. We will all rise together when we band together and help one another. Joseph Erwin is a Real Estate Broker, DRE # O2131799, and a CA general contractor # B 696662. He’s a member of the CRMLS and The East Valley Association of Realtors located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California.