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 […]
School
School is the answer…. Right? I mean, that is what everyone tells us. If your life is falling apart, go back to school. If you’re confused, go back to school and get a degree. That’s the only goal. Get that piece of paper. I want to look at this from two different perspectives. From the […]
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 […]
Coaching
I love seeing dads coach youth sports. I love coaching my kids, it’s a great way to spend time with them. You get to hang out with other kids and other dads with kids a similar age. I know a lot of dads who coach and some who don’t. I would encourage every dad to […]
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 […]
Don’t Enable Bad Behavior, Shut It Down
Don’t enable bad behavior, shut it down. I see the enabling of bad behavior almost everywhere I go. I see parents turning a blind eye, making threats and not following through. I see grown adults not held accountable for their actions. I see excuses everywhere. Everyone has an excuse, everyone is making excuses for other […]