On the Clock: The Limited Window of Time With Our Kids While reading The Art of Spending Money  by Morgan Housel, I kept thinking about something he implies but doesn’t explicitly say: the most meaningful investments in life often involve limited windows of time. One of the most finite resources we have is time with our children. We are on the clock. On average, you get about 18 years with your kids under your roof. After that, they begin building their own lives. Studies sug

Overall: This week is typically challenging. Had travel this weekend and the Arnold classic brings a fair amount of external pressures. Was feeling a little run down. Have had a fair amount of patients struggling with this winter, and I think I felt the same. From Thanksgiving - Tax day seems to be the winter at this point with increased stress. Need to think about strategies to help break this up. A long term goal is to snow bird, but that’s not realistic at this point or in

Parenting is one of the strangest callings in life. It is exhausting, frustrating, ego-crushing…and at the same time, it is one of the greatest privileges you will ever experience. Both things are true. People are a lot like dogs. We are wired differently. Some kids are calm and compliant. Some are intense and explosive. Some are natural pleasers. Others are relentless negotiators. Some require very little guidance. Others require enormous energy, structure, and patience. The

Overall:  It’s been a stretch over the past several weeks. The winter months are still here and I’m seeing the impact on patients and personally. There’s been glimpses of the winter breaking and it’s nice to get back outside again. There’s a price you pay when you go away, but I still find it very necessary to get a break from the monotony and connect with those closest to us.  Training has been very flat over the past couple weeks and I know the root cause is insufficient sl