Some people might define successful parenting as reaching the point where your children have grown up, without making any negative life-impacting decisions, left the house, and are thriving on their own. That could be one way to define success. But what do the 18 or 20 years leading up to that look like? How do …
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Defining Success in Marriage
Defining success in marriage is iterative, it’s about learning and growing together. But, defining success may be easier if we first define failure. So, what does failure look like in marriage? Some may say divorce or infidelity, or possibly just distance between you and your spouse. So is success, then, staying married, being faithful to …
Defining Success With Fitness
What does defining success in fitness look like? For me, it has ranged all the way from completing an Ironman race to getting maybe two short workouts and a little bit of stretching over the course of a week. That’s because my definition of success varies depending on the phase of my life, how busy …
Defining Success
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been talking about measuring actions, not outcomes, for personal growth. We need to use that information and data to determine whether we’re improving. If we are indeed improving, how do we sustain that improvement? If not, how do we continue to improve and grow? We have to ask …
Measuring Growth in Parenting
How do you measure progress as a parent? What does getting better at parenting look like? My personal opinion is that growing as a parent means growing with your child (or children). If you think about it, the relationship between a child and the parents is one in which the child is constantly seeking more …