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New Book–On Becoming Babywise

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Well it’s time for a new book again, I’ve read a few in-between the last one, and I thought I’d change it up a bit.  My wife is reading “On Becoming Babywise” and mentioned I should read it as well so we are on the same page.  I just finished my previous book “Get Married Stay Married” and was in need of another one so this was perfect.  It’s also perfect timing since my wife will be giving birth here in under a month.

Parenting is a funny thing because EVERYONE has an opinion on it.  There is no right or wrong (maybe in people’s eyes) but I’m finding you need to find something that fits within your values and stick with it.  People will offer up advise and it’s probably polite to take it in and say thank you or just smile and continue with what you believe.  I don’t know 100% yet what that will be like but I know we will do what we feel is best and that’s that.  I’m sure a lot of people feel the same way.  The only thing people have really been saying to me, and in more a negative tone, is “Your life is going to change dude”.  I’m well aware my life will change, to what extent I won’t know, but this is an awesome thing and in no way is my life changing going to be shed in a negative way.

So having said that I am in no way going to preach what we do as being the right way or “the way” but I am going to share what I am reading and possibly my thoughts.  From what I’ve read to far Babywise seems to be a book between Attachment Parenting and Hyperscheduling and so far interesting.  I can’t really chat to much about it but from what I’ve heard from three other couples who’ve read it is its an amazing book.  They feel what they’ve read and what they’ve applied has been worth it and from that recommendation I’m excited to keep reading it.

I’ll be sure to update this blog after I’ve read it and by that time I’m sure the baby will be here!

New Book!

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Yesterday I started a new book after finished “Wild at Heart”.  The new book is called “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John Maxwell.  It’s no secret that I love John Maxwell, he’s a well respected teacher on leadership. 

I really enjoy any success books on leaderships because I believe I am a natural leader and have been all my life. However I am nowhere near where I think I could be with my leadership skills and with that I’m picking up tons of success principals from people like John Maxwell.  Never stop learning and improving!

 

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Choosing Your Attitude

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Today I woke up and looked outside and it was cloudy, +13 (COLD), and dreary outside.  It’s August and I always think of August still being warm but not this year.  Apparently Edmonton has had a pretty crappy summer this year, the crappiest since the mid 90’s I heard from my brother in-law.  So weather usually affects me in a bit way, it determines my attitude sometimes and really can put me in a great mood if its blue skies and sunny and WARM, or a crappy mood if it’s like today.  I know it shouldn’t do this but it does and has for years. 

I recently heard a audio file or maybe read in a book recently (cannot remember where, doesn’t really matter) about your attitude is what you choose it to be.  You are 100% in control of your attitude and how you feel about the things around you.  Weather as we all know is out of our control and yet so many people are affected by it.  I was so pissy this morning that I went on a tweet tyrant (maybe just one tweet) about how pissy I was and just needed to get it off my chest.  Did it do anything?  Not really, however it did make me instantly realize what I had just done and how I should be in better control of my attitude.  I reflected back on what I had heard/read about how you choose your own attitude. 

bad_attitude So I guess that’s my inspiration for this blog entry today and why I’m writing about it.  First it’s helping me understand just exactly why my attitude is the way it is, or was. I’ve since changed my attitude this morning. And second what I can do about it.  I can continue to be a grump ass and just be pissed at the world because the weather is crappy or I can look on the bright side and choose to have a better attitude about it.  Like I’ve said I decided to be a bit more positive about it.  So how did I do that?

Well It’s been smoky in Edmonton since Thursday and because it has been cooler it’s been easier to deal with because its not hot and muggy.  Smoke + Hot + Muggy = The Suckage.  It also rained last night which helped get rid of the smoke and with that makes for a much better day.  So I guess there really is a positive in everything.  Do I still wish it was hotter, heck yeah.  I love the heat and I love summer.  Can we do something about that? Yup.  In 3 years we plan to move to Kelowna where they actually have a longer summer than in Edmonton and consistently have +30’s and above through the summer.  So while I bitch and complain about the weather here (or bitched and complained) I am actually going to do something about that in a few years.  :)

Its pretty awesome the power of reading as I mentioned in a previous post, it is what has helped me understand a lot about myself and how I deal with certain things.  So what I’m really getting at with this whole post is choose your attitude.  Is it really worth being all grumpy over something you cannot control?  Even if you can control it, is it worth all that energy to be pissy?  Nobody wants to hang around a pissy person.

Have a great Sunday!

 

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Staying Focused at Work Part 2

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So I was thinking today at work about my blog entry yesterday, Staying Focused At Work, and figured the only way I’m really going to be able to stay focused and not dwell on it is to just obtain some more skills and be the best I can be at my job.  I was given a comment awhile back that while I’m at my job I should be putting in a good effort regardless because right now it’s the main money maker.  I owe it to my company to put in a solid effort despite what is going on outside of work.

So with that I’ve decided to pick up my CompTia Project+ book which will get me certified in project management.  Its one of the certs I’ve been wanting to get and I think it will help me out in my job while I am there and really will help with future projects regardless of what job I have.  I’ve also started reading and taking up PowerShell, for those of you that don’t know what PoweShell is you should.  It’s AWESOME! You can check it out here for more information.  I know one of my good friends Colin over at Benchmark IT Consulting uses it and loves it.  He uses it for SQL, however I’ll be looking at it more on the Windows side of things.  WOW, my blog just increased it’s geek factor by 10 there.  Trust me I’ll keep that to a minimum.

So what I’m really saying is in my moment of being frustrated yesterday I turned it around today into something a bit more positive and thought I might as well just do the best job I can and get as much education I can from where I am regardless of anything else I have going on.  If anything it will just help me with my reading so I can become an even better reader!