Dear Son, Life’s Wakeup Calls Are Huge Gifts And Mine Was Discovering Parenting Is Not An Entitlement

Rhode Island, June 16, 2011

Dear Son, every day is Father’s Day. Your Mother and I suffered through an invisible disability, infertility. Parenting is not an entitlement for some couples.

Spending our life savings, struggling for 8 years with pathetic odds, with no guarantee – heart wrenching. Doing our bear hug every day after school – priceless.

I hope every parent can comprehend the wealth children bring.

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On A Scale Of 1-10, How’s Your Mental Attitude?

Rarely are we asked to give it a number, but what if we were? How’s your PMA, Positive Mental Attitude? Ten is highest, five is average…

Sounds cliche but attitude is everything.

My friend Dennis says things only become cliches if they’re true.

PS. Happy Father’s day.

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No Dreams Come True If We Don’t Try, Fail, Try Again

Yesterday, Jack and I returned from Providence, Rhode Island…

It was fun to practice a speech in the Capital Building.

This morning’s post (below) had an intent you might have missed. Goals and dreams we have remaining are either:

  1. Newer goals, based on shifted priorities
  2. Old, important, tough goals, we don’t want to abandon

Our goals are different. Our desire the same. I simply want the power of a personal example to help you with real life in real time. I had nothing on the 1st 20 pages on Google. You can see the results for yourself – and know there is no theory preached here.

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