Choose Your Influences
Our Influence is Our Choice If you want to learn how to get skinny when you’re fat, it’s a good idea to get advice from a skinny person who was once fat. When I realized I was fat I got advice on losing weight from a formerly fat person. If you want to learn […]
Spoiled Turds
The endgame is what I think about. What kind of people do I want my sons to grow up to become? When I think about my boys as adults, I picture a few things: • They are happily married. • They have good kids. • They are independent and strong. • They have a good […]
Challenges
Dads enjoy challenges and obstacles. They take them head-on. Can we just start with a bunch of Winston Churchill quotes? “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in […]
Avoid Temptations
We avoid temptations, including infidelity, drugs, gambling, pornography, and mismanaging the wealth we’ve been entrusted with. The temptation is always going to be out there. This is a subject that really fascinates me because these things really consume some people. To the point of destroying their lives and they just can’t fight it. I’ve spoken […]