It’s been an usually hectic year and I haven’t had much free time available to contemplate it all. Our son has grown like weed. Still hasn’t uttered a comprehensible word. My wife’s worried about this, but I’m not. Like all things in life, it’ll come in due course. I imagine some time next year, he’ll be twittering like a bird with all the newly discovered words filling his head. My wife’s worries in this matter…
One particular trait that all my employers in the past and present like about me is that I’m fast which they equate to efficient. I try to be decisive when there are problems that need to be hurdled as quickly as possible. For a long time I thought that was good enough until I began to experience moments where fast wasn’t such a good thing. Allow me to draw an analogy. Think about driving. Fast…
We tend to give credit entirely to the the person who are successful in their career and their lives. We often forget that it has as much to do with the support of family, friends and co-workers as it does with their own hard-work and initiative. Take my career for example. It was my parent’s support that helped me to get through college. There were times when I felt overwhelmed and inadequate. My parents being…
I recently read an interview from an executive who is very much aligned with my way of seeing the world. He mentioned one thing that I have done my utmost to adhere to. I’ve always believed that your identity as an individual rests on knowing truly what it is you hold dear and are willing to sacrifice at great cost to protect. I believe everyone should know that thing is. Most people call it a…
At the the post office today I saw identical twin toddlers that were in that irritable hyper state any parent who who’s reading this will understand. There was a time when I would’ve been annoyed by this. I would have been inwardly critical of parents who didn’t have a tight rein on their kid(s). Having now experienced parenthood, I now realize that this is an unrealistic expectation. Kids are not adults as my wife reminds…