With All Your Mind
Everyone struggles with feelings. We don’t feel like getting off the couch, eating healthier or putting the kids in bed on time, so often we don’t. Worse, families dissolve every day because parents just don’t feel like they are in love anymore. We live in an emotional age;... Read More
Fight For The Heart | Imagine The End
The Freedom to Be Wrong
(Photo by Andrew Balet. Used with permission.) I remember walking through this laboratory of Thomas Edison as a child. (It’s been painstakingly preserved outside Detroit Michigan.) It’s the room where the lightbulb, phonograph and thousands of other things were invented. I remember imagining what it might have been... Read More
Less Time . . . More Influence
I still remember the first day of kindergarten for both of my sons so very clearly, like it was yesterday. But right now, we’re preparing for two new firsts a few weeks from now. My eldest son starts his first year of college and my younger son begins... Read More
Imagine The End | Widen The Circle
The Tension in Serving
So it’s confession time. I’ve followed the blog posts that Reggie and Kara have posted in the last few week, and I admit it stirs a tension in me. I think it’s generally true that people change when the pain associated with the status quo is greater than... Read More
Get a Plan
This week on the blog we’ve talked about being imperfect parents and how even imperfect parents need to focus their priorities on what matters most. Two statistics help put this all in perspective. The first reality is that parents continue to be the most influential voices in the... Read More
Imagine The End | Make It Personal
What Your Kids Want Most From You
A study of one thousand young people in 3rd through 12th grade asked kids and teens this question: If you were granted one wish that would change the way that your mother’s or father’s work affects your life, what would that wish be? In a parallel study, more than... Read More
Strategic Parenting (How Not to Crash Your Car)
One of the challenges in navigating a discussion about parenting… there are so many issues. How can you tackle them all? That’s why Reggie and I are so excited about sharing a strategy for parenting. We’ll build the dialogue on this blog around five family values that we’ll... Read More