Triple The Dad

Everyone  makes New Year lists. And yes, later this week, I too will reveal  my  New Year list. After a few years in remission, Better Bryan will be rejuvenated as Better Bryan XVI. But for now, I wanted to take a look back at how I did on  my goals for 2015 . So each day this week I'll be taking a quick and short look at one of my goals and how I did. Then we can mock how pitifully it all went and later this week I can wipe the slate clean and set up new goals. In yesterday's post we looked at two goals I completely dropped the ball on. Today tees up a more satisfactory result. More reading.   This one is personal, rather than blog related.  I have always been a voracious reader.  But for a couple years there I didn't really much of anything other than directions on formula.  I've gotten back into reading of late and I want to continue this. I'd say its a success, although "more" is both pretty nebulous and a low bar when formula instructi...

Everyone  makes New Year lists. And yes, later this week, I too will reveal  my  New Year list. After a few years in remission, Better Bryan will be rejuvenated as Better Bryan XVI. But for now, I wanted to take a look back at how I did on  my goals for 2015 . So each day this week I'll be taking a quick and short look at one of my goals and how I did. Then we can mock how pitifully it all went and later this week I can wipe the slate clean and set up new goals. In yesterday's post we looked at two goals I completely dropped the ball on. Today tees up a more satisfactory result. More outreach.   I'm very interested in growing the readership here by guest posting and commenting more on some of the sites I read, and generally interacting more with them. I had some of my posts appear on other sites during 2015, and I did some light commenting on other sites. I participated in quite a few link ups. All of which resulted in better page views for me. This blog st...

Everyone  makes New Year lists. And yes, later this week, I too will reveal my  New York list. After a few years in remission, Better Bryan will be rejuvenated as Better Bryan XVI. But for now, I wanted to take a look back at how I did on my goals for 2015 . So each day this week I'll be taking a quick and short look at one of my goals and how I did. Then we can mock how pitifully it all went and later this week I can wipe the slate clean and set up new goals. We start today with two more nebulous goals. The first: More calm.   I'm already a big fan of demonstrating calmness to my kids.  We talk about taking deep breathes when we are angry and going to our happy places.  Not much makes me happier than when my kids are in a high stress place and tell me their happy place is "their home."  But I want to do more.  I don't always model perfect behavior in this realm, and I know that if I want my kids to be on board with this, I have to do better myse...