I'm not a "Parent Blogger" per se, but I am a parent and I have a blog, so I apologize in advance for this post wandering from my typical topics of business and Relationship Architecture. However, I feel there will still be an applicable lesson within, even though it's a post about traveling with Patricia and our kids. That being said, I do feel that there are many similarities between raising your children appropriately and good business practices. This past weekend we took a trip to New York City for a theatre weekend with the kids. Patricia and I are big proponents of balance and having

My daughter and I were chatting on the deck, having a little breakfast, and I said something to her that triggered a thought about opportunity and seizing the moment. I told her I was going to post this thought on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. The post went like this: “Everyone has opportunities presented to them, the question is: are they paying attention when the window opens? Keep looking, never quit.” My daughter then asked me, “Why did you tweet that?” I explained that I felt that there are lots of folks who do not receive the daily encouragement or direction they need, and I lik

When Patricia and I took our newborn daughter home from the hospital, we got to the house, put her on the kitchen table, looked at each other and asked, "What do we do now?" We were first-time parents and, sure, we had a notion of what needed to be done, but we had never done this before. We paused there for a minute or two and I said, "Let's go out to dinner." So we picked up the car seat carrier, baby in tow, and we were off. It's now more than thirteen years later, and we haven't stopped. We are very comfortable being parents now, but there is always something new that comes up and chal