Triple The Dad

Some people get it; some people don't. I'm an Eagles fan and so Emmitt Smith was never my favorite player. I rooted against him and his team countless times. But he gets it. I'll bring up a sort of related point in a minute, but first: When asked if Smith would let his son play football - a big question that former players face these days - he said yes. Here is what he said: “ Why would I steal his passion from him ?” Smith said. “I never made him play football. He had many choices, options. I love watching him play basketball. Football, I get nervous just like any other parent. And I’m concerned for him just like any other parent. But his goals are his goals, and my job is to help him reach it and protect him when he needs protection. And so to take another kid’s passion from them is just not right. I don’t think it’s right. It’s like me taking your passion from you, telling you, ‘You cannot do this.’ When you want to do it. Especially if it’s right. It’s good for...

So here we are, the first week of 2016. We spent the week reviewing 2015, which is already a distant speck in the rear view mirror. But looking forward, what are the goals for 2016? Post every week:  This ties in to a couple other goals, but I'd love to post at least once every week (every week being 51 weeks - guy gotta take a vacation). I put up 39 posts in 2015. I'd like to put up no fewer than 45 this year, with the absolute goal being 51, as I said. Grow the blog:  This isn't a numbers thing (that is below). I'd like to come up with another feature for the blog. Something like What We Are Eating Wednesday that features pictures of what we ate that week. I've flirted with a "30-Seconds With Triplets" feature that I may break out. Grow the numbers . I'd to write well enough and promote often enough that no single month in 2016 is lower than my slowest month in 2015. That won't be all that hard to accomplish. My bigger goal, and I'm alm...

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...