Your Turn What are your goals for 2018? When setting your goals for the new year, it’s important to focus on a few things. Make sure your goals are yours. Whether it is decluttering your workspace, reducing debt or losing weight, your goals must be yours, not what someone else thinks you should do. That leads to a few questions …
It’s Time to Look at Year-end Planning
As the year draws to a close, we begin to think about taxes and planning for the upcoming year. There’s no telling what the tax rules will be for 2018, but we might as well take control of what we can — our own spending and planning. Stay disciplined over the holidays with your budget and remember the extra $10 …
Getting Your Affairs in Order
Recently someone was complementing these articles and said how valuable the information in them was to them. One of her family members died recently and she wanted to make sure that her own affairs were in order. Unfortunately, we see unexpected, untimely deaths at surprisingly young ages more than we would like. And with the devastating massacre in Las Vegas, these …
Planning in advance for a disaster
With all the disasters that have happened recently, it never hurts to make sure that we are prepared for the worst. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the American Red Cross and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all provide checklists to help you get started. Those lists are the essentials of tangible items for personal survival, but there are …
How to shut down creative thievery
Financial scams seem be running rampant. A friend recently fell victim. Someone purporting to be her emailed her assistant asking for a wire from her personal account. The email looked just like my friend’s email. It wasn’t “spoofing” but really was from her email address. (Spoofing, I have learned, is when the email looks like it is from someone you know, …
Top Work Place 2017, Leadership Award
We are proud to be recognized by the Knoxville News Sentinel as a Top Work Place for 2017. We are also very pleased to share that our President, Daniel Carter has been recognized for his leadership. The surveys conducted polled employees on various workplace topics and out of the area’s 3,000 small businesses, we were awarded a top …
Families working for the benefit of parents
Originally published in the Knoxville News Sentinel As you know from my last column, mom moved to a retirement community recently. My dad is still living at home in Atlanta. (My parents divorced when I was 15 years old.) We now have caregivers for dad 24/7. My brothers also live in Atlanta and are coordinating dad’s care. This is a …
Spring 2017 News
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Enjoying spring’s diversity
By Sharon Pryse, Chairman and CEO. Spring has arrived, bringing with it budding flowers and trees, as well as, pollen and sneezing. As I walk through my garden, I realize how important it is to have the larger trees and shrubs which can be complimented by the flowers, both perennials as well as annuals. The diversification in my garden is …