This last week, we took our eldest daughter off to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. This marks a significant milestone for both her and us as parents. She has total control of her choices with little required input from her parents. She will need to make the right choices at the right times. We will have more complex finances to manage among a myriad of family dynamic realities of a physically separated household. She may no longer be living under our roof,…
Personally, professionally, and academically, this has been a crazy week. This is one of those weeks that makes you pause and just realize how crazy life can get at times. Luckily, all of it is positive and looking great. Just absolutely crazy hectic with little time to pause. When these times occur, I seek out some refuge to take stock of recent events and make sure I do not take things for granted. For example, I completed a kickboxing class…
I wrote this the other day for a different purpose. I made a few more tweaks and thought I would post it… One of the first questions we have to ask is what we want out of our education and lives. If the purpose of higher education and advanced self-education is simply to acquire the skills necessary to achieve a specific career goal such as a technical skill, then learning about the “arts” are not required. However, if the goal…
For much of my life success was about accumulating more money and possessions than those around me. In reality, it was not a healthy or even true definition of success for my life. It was a mistake to allow myself to operate under its influence for such a long time. Well over a decade ago, I realized that I needed to stop trying to live up to other people’s definition of success and define it for myself. Now, I define…