I'M JUST HERE TO BE DAD

EP44

“PLANS”

Nothing ever goes as planned on Monday. Details slip, and I go forward only to go back.

I used to take it personally, like I was broken because I couldn't keep a plan.

So I stopped and looked at what I actually get done. Where does my consistency live every day? Where I lack it, is that discipline or priority? Where do I show up, and who do I show up for?

Your online presence is never the foundation. Sometimes it's a window, sometimes a door. The foundation is the people you show up for every day.

You don't have to explain yourself. You just have to be yourself.

Accept the flawed plan over chasing the flawless one. Real life happens in the crooked lines.

Be flexible with your plans. Be kind to yourself while you execute them. Live in the real moments, don't get lost in the reel ones.

You got this, Dad. Even if you're not a Dad, you got this too.

Always remember if I’m not here, I’m somewhere being Dad. 

I’m just here to be Dad. 

Happy Monday.

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EP43 

THE NIGHTMARE

THE DREAM

I’ve said it before, but it’s worth revisiting…

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EP 42

“Fifteen years later, a single photograph still reminds me what it means to thrive in your space.

I was a photographer then, that was my life. The camera was everything, the work was everything.

Somewhere in those two decades behind the lens, I took a photo in the Everglades that I couldn't quite forget. Over fifteen years ago now, it was just a bird, a Purple Swamphen, exotic and beautiful, with deep blue plumage, a red and yellow beak, and beautiful green wings. 

It was chilling on lily pads in the shallow water, moving with absolute precision and confidence through its terrain.

I was looking for something, but I'm no bird expert, the shot was candid, unforced. 

The bird just landed there long enough for me to think: damn, that's dope. 

That 85mm lens and I captured something that meant more to me than I understood at the time…”

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EP41

The imagination of my children, captivated by bigger-than-life replica dinosaurs; the awe in my children's eyes was something I’m glad I captured and experienced. 

The beauty of adventure and the dreams the Dinosaurs metaphorically represent. 

Once upon a dinoventure…

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Episode 40

“Worry is the program running underneath everything. It's the architecture we built without knowing we were building it. It whispers, it loops, it feeds itself.

We have to hack the thinking that built it. 

We have to hack the systems that keep it running.”

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The opportunity for a story to tell. The moment turns into a story they one day will tell to their children, peers, or friends. Even if it’s a story on repeat, they tell themselves, “Once upon a time, Dad said…” 

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Maybe just maybe you’re constant tendency to rewind replay moments of the past are rooted in what was once a small plant called can’t…

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Welcome to Dad's Book Club

The show in-between the show

Let's keep you listening daily as each EP is written with care, attention, and detail. 

While you wait for the next EP, enjoy Dad's book club, where we take quotes from books I'm currently reading or a book I pulled from the archives. 

Let's find new books to read, learn, grow, and become better dads with each quote!

Welcome to Dad's Book Club

The show in-between the show

Hey, I read this in a book! The quote about everything or nothing at all

Today’s quote comes from the book 

"Do Over" by Jon Acuff 

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“ …as a kid we navigate this world like a story book, 

Everything is amplified, shadows become monsters, nosies we can see become fear of the unknown and that image is known in many different shapes and sizes. The stories we tell ourself only grow with time. They are real, very real yet as a man our perspective goes from victim to rescuer, hopeless to problem solver, pain to power.”

You got this! 

Have a great day😀

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Whether it’s halftime of a game or  it’s the beach on a Thursday, mentally defeated, wanting to quit, but then you stop and think: “How do you want her to remember this?”

We learn so much in the very little time we get to raise our children; her ability to find peace and happiness like a light switch is something I learn from every day. She can remind you that nothing matters but now. She forces Dad to ask the question, constantly: what matters right now?

The beauty in the right now, the joy, the peace, the freedom in the right now. 

Happy Monday. As noon approaches, remember to find your “right now.” 

Don’t miss the moment but thrive in it, and make whoever that moment is shared with remember: You are always here and ready to be Dad. 

You got this! 

Have a great day😀

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