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Here’s to staying on that bull named COVID…

My twins started driver's ed today. Like almost everything these days that resembles a meeting with a group of people, they're using Zoom. At fourteen, I just witnessed them both experience the terror of their first Zoom call. Their browsers didn't support Zoom, so they had to download the app… Click here... Almost downloaded... Here [...]

By |2020-08-03T13:49:22-05:00August 3rd, 2020|

Embracing your Weaknesses – The Power of an Outside Perspective

How well do you understand your weaknesses? I mean, the gaps you have in your life that are holding you back – the things that are keeping you from creating the depth you'd like to… It struck me the other day that although I think I know what my weaknesses are, I might be missing [...]

By |2020-07-11T12:56:29-05:00July 11th, 2020|

Dear Dad…

You’ve been gone now for about thirteen years. I lost you in an instant, and time has flown by since. When you died, the twins were not even a year old. Today, they are fourteen. You would be so proud of them and the adults they’re becoming. As a dad myself, now raising teenagers, I [...]

By |2020-06-21T17:26:30-05:00June 21st, 2020|

Keeping the Little Things Little and Focusing on What Really Matters

“Where are all the staples? I just need one freakin’ staple. What good is a stapler with no staples?” This tirade raged in my head for about five minutes – about five minutes and one second too long. I’m in my home office, looking at the notes I just captured on a call, wanting to [...]

By |2020-06-02T13:28:48-05:00June 2nd, 2020|