Category: Parenting
what do milkshakes have to do with life skills & selling? (+ news)
for quite awhile i feel like most of my PebbleStorm has been mostly about family & adoption, rather than prior years’ focus on ‘Unique Genius’. it’s funny how everything i do is all facets of the same gem: perhaps seemingly different on the outside, but all different reflections of the same thing, with my family influencing…
adopting again; next stop: 6 kids
in my last post here i said people who adopt have to be INSANE, and listed out why…and lo and behold, here we are now adopting another two kids, a 8 year old brother and 3 year old sister, from Ethiopia. buy a badass tshirt & help out my wife and daughter put together a funny tshirt idea to…
valentin comes with me to boston for Hubspot’s ‘inbound’ conference
i’ve started taking one of our big kids (my son valentin – 8 years old; my daughter aurora – 10 years old) on my business trips, when i speak at events or conferences. i want them to learn what real life is like by experiencing it hands-on when they can. plus it’s more fun for…
people who adopt have to be INSANE
have you or if you’re married, your spouse, ever thought about or wanted to adopt? but concerns or doubts stopped you / them… i mean, life’s already busy and expensive enough – who’d want to add MORE on top of that by adopting? it’d mean: * more work (and you’re already overwhelmed) * more unknowns /…
Your Unique Kid #1: Why Pari (Our New Daughter) Sleeps With Us In Bed
The single most important thing standing between people and creating work that is fulfilling and makes you plenty of money is the all-around self-confidence or “life-confidence” to follow your own unique path, which even lots of ‘successful-in-business’ people can lack. This kind of life-confidence starts being built or reduced from the day someone’s born… So you’re a parent or parent-to-be, and…