Five things I have learned about being a good partner are:
1) Be willing to out serve your partner.
2) Be forthcoming and honest in all matters.
3) Be selfless and always strive to look out for their goals, accomplishments and recognize their successes.
4) Be willing to be second, give them the glory and lift them up in the good and the bad.
5) Be willing to always go the extra mile if that's what's needed for their benefit.
In today's workplace the discussion of boundaries between men and women are practically non-existent. I have this conversation regularly with my accountability group and my spiritual advisers.
Are there absolutes or is every situation discretionary? Coaching professional men is a daily practice for me and this is a topic that we invariably have to broach.
Topics: Accountability, Character, Marriage, Family, Career
I was talking to another guy a couple days ago discussing difficult topics. Many times as a dad I wanted to dismiss myself from certain conversations.
On a trip to Destin, Florida, several years ago with my wife and two daughters I found myself confronted with real life teenage questions. As my oldest daughter and I walked the beach late one afternoon, the inevitable boy conversation rolled around.
Wow, I was not prepared nor interested in going down this path. Thankfully, most of the topics were easy and non threatening. However, the timing was right to go down a road that is a dad's worst nightmare: dating.
Where I went to school this equation would not fly. Even to say less is more is crazy. I mean, come on, 4 is greater than 2 and so on. But what I do know now as a 53 year old successful businessman is more often than not less is better.
I chased all the glitz and glamour only to find an empty chest at the base of the rainbow. Each and every milestone revealed more cash and less time.
In no way do I want to minimize my desire to succeed financially because I love to make money. I just don't want money to own me.
