Love first, judge second, or not at all. What if every interaction with your family started with love? This is the actual difference between leadership in the world and leadership in our families. Our leadership comes to us not in some promotion or title but because we genuinely love someone and feel responsible for their growth. Parent leadership is the purest form of leadership. Love first is the single most significant way we can be there for those we lead in our families. When we seek to love, we look to empathize and better understand those we serve as parent leaders. Know them better to love them stronger.  When you love first, you will find you don’t need to judge. Read more…

The days are long, but the years are short. – Gretchen Rubin   Gretchen tells us something here that I think we all learn at some point in our lives. When we had our first child, it seems like everyone who was grandparent age would tell us something along these lines. They told us these long days would pass by quickly. I have to be honest I don’t think I understood because I could not relate to what they were saying. To me, I was just in over my head, and some days did seem longer than others with a new baby. Maybe that was just due to lack of sleep. As our kids get older, I can now relate Read more…

If you get tired, learn to rest and not to quit. – Banksy Life is complex and tiring as it is. It does not get any easier when you commit yourself to personal growth and be a great parent leader. The challenges still come, and you have to get creative to take on your family’s different situations. When you commit to growth and parentship (parent leadership), what does happen is you understand your purpose. When you understand your purpose as a person and a parent, you find extra strength to bring to your family. Even with this extra strength in purpose, you will still get tired in your journey. This is normal, and in a way, it is good. It Read more…

“You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life.” – Zig Ziglar Most of what we learn as parents comes to us in two ways. The first is on the fly when we have no idea what we are doing but somehow make it work. The other is the examples we had as parent figures from our past or present. As we lead and parent our own families, we can use these two ways to learn and rely on our experience to give those we love the person they need. When we ask ourselves who the type of parent those I am leading need at this point in their Read more…

Commitment is an act, not a word. – Jean-Paul Sartre We all want to be successful in life no matter what we are taking on. I have never met a person who does not want something out of life. To be successful in something. We all know we want the outcome of success. The glory, the happiness, or whatever it may be you are shooting for.  What if our idea of success changed from the outcome to the process of success. What if we were judged successful by not the result but our commitment to the outcome. Were we committed enough to bring the achievement we are looking for. What are we willing to do or give up to have Read more…