Life

Taking the first step into our fears Watching my children continues to teach me valuable lessons. The big decisions in life are tough and we often put off making a decision as long as possible due to fear and anxiety. This leads to procrastination and can be crippling at times. I started thinking about this while interacting with my oldest daughter at the waterpark a few weekends ago. In the kids pool area there were 3 waterslides. She would happily slide down the smaller two but steadfastly refuse the slightly larger slide. My one and a half year old twins even rode the larger slide but that did little to sway the strong willed 3 year old. In her mind it was a gargantuan waterfall. On the second day there I continued to plead with her to take plunge. It would be so much fun I assured her but she couldn’t look past her fear. As a last ditch effort I offered a treat in return for trying the slide. Her expression immediately perked up at the sound of that magical word and she ran straight to the top of the slide. ...

The last 4 weeks have been a blur. I took on extra course in order to finish school at the end of this month. And by finish, I mean graduate!! My brain is tired all the time, and I’ve been working overtime on school, but its the first time I can feel the end being near. September=freedom. And hopefully a job.

It turns out my wife is a fantastic writer. She has written an excellent, entertaining, and thorough run down of what an average day for us looks like. Raising a 2 year old while managing newborn twins is pretty hectic and challenging. Its sometimes surprising that we’re surviving all of this. A day in the life…triple insanity

I started using task management software slowly as the need to keep track of things began increasing in life. Starting college was the main catalyst. At first I had a spiral notebook for each class and I would write any assignments at the top of a page in there. When it came time to complete work I would search through the notebook until I found the proper list. It was unorganized and it didn’t scale well. ...

Tif and I have had a lot of conversations about whether we would change the past. I always would say that are things I would absolutely like to change. That’s where I naturally go with regret. Tif didn’t think you could divorce what has happened in the past with who we are today and in a lot of ways I’ve come to agree with her. Good or bad, where we are is a direct result of where we’ve been. I had to learn to not dwell on things that had happened, but instead focus on where I was and where I was heading. ...