I had an epiphany today. Set an intention not a constraint. What do I mean by this? I’ll give you an example. If I put my son to bed, say I want him to be asleep by x time. If I’m lucky he will fall asleep before or by that time. But typically he...
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It’s easy to focus on the end. What we want to happen. Where we want to go. How we want to feel. But there’s a pitfall to focusing on the end too much. We lose the journey. And this can also cause other problems. We become impatient and frustrated. I struggle with this a...
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This isn’t a word I use often. But when it comes to dealing with lack of sleep or a child that won’t go to sleep I can’t do it. I suck at it. I constantly feel like a failure. Like my kids and wife hate me and I’ll never be worthy. Yeah. It’s that...
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I feel incapable of writing anything profound lately because I am exhausted. Lack of sleep. Tantrums (mine and my son’s). Travel. Stressful work situations. A dog who’s health is failing. At night I have weird dreams. I’m working through so many emotions all the time. It’s overwhelming my subconscious. I feel like I’m surviving...
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Parenting is all consuming. Having babies puts your whole life in perspective. And I’m lucky enough to have a wife and partner that I share this journey with. We can take turns. Trade off. Juggle having two kids together. But. It. Is. All. Encompassing. I have a full time job on top of the...
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Sometimes the only way is to endure. Make it through the night and try for better tomorrow. It sucks in the moment. It’s so hard. It seems impossible. But you can and will get through. No matter how hard it gets each day is a gift. If we can keep that in our minds...
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Someone once said if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all....
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Sometimes I don’t have a succinct idea that I want to write about. And tonight I just landed in Seattle after a six hour flight and a 80 minute cab ride to JFK. I’m tired. And in situations like this I ask myself what is the most important thing you want to say right...
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For a while you can survive if there are challenges and interesting problems to solve. Fixing things. Advising. Helping others fix things. You might work with some super smart and hard working people. There’s collaboration and it feels like forward momentum. For a while. And at some point things change. Progress stalls. But you...
Continue readingBad Poems Because I Don’t Want To Deal
Woke up in Seattle. Going to bed in New York. Will wake up early. Take a jog to Central Park. Wife and babies and dog at home. I’m hanging with techies on the east side. Excited to see the city. Life is a wild, meandering, beautiful ride. This poem is stupid. But I’m too...
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