THE LIFE & TIMES OF A CREATIVE DAD

Ok, honest blogpost time. Week 3 of the new year & I've already hit one of those gnarly busy weeks where kids get sick, throw off all your daily plans, but you love em, and with my littlest guy you actually get to experience the extremely rare time of him being calm. Add some other unexpected family news on top of it & boom, there goes the brilliant week you had planned. Needless to say, this past week I have felt a big invasion of personal space & a much needed time out. Ear

2 weeks into 2018, 50 more to go! The past week my wife, Sara, & I have been trying out a new schedule and it seemed to work out well, so we're going to try it again this week. It's funny how our new schedule has evolved, but helping each other get more "me time" & rest is basically the main factors that have affected the need for this change. For those that know me, it's common knowledge that surviving on little sleep has been my super power for years, but I feel like that p

Boom, first week of the new year is done & we're already into the second week. When you think about there being 365 days in a year it sounds like a long way off, but when you think that there are only 52 weeks in a year and we're already down to 51, it makes the time seem so much shorter. Like anything in life, it's the perspective we choose to view a situation that determines how we feel about it, how we perceive it & how it can either motivate us or even tear us a part. Thi

The end of 2017 is here! The past few months since I started this blog have been pretty hectic. I felt like I had gotten into a groove with scheduling weekly meetings, writing blog posts, booking clients and routinely meeting up with mentors, but somewhere around the end of September just seemed to pick up speed & never slowed down. My wife & I had a good little family meeting last night to plan some of our scheduling goals for 2018, and I'm feeling really excited to jump int