"What kind of D.A.D. are you?"

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If just having a child is important to you, just perpetuating your lineage is a priority, then you’re just a father. If you want more than that with your child, if you want a relationship with your child, then you determine priorities consistent with that.

Your child discovers what’s important to you, what your priorities are, without you ever telling him or her.
For instance, I coach a young executive who works with a well-known firm. He was having some difficulty moving forward to realize one of his goals, specifically involving relationships. So we worked together to unravel this knot. We discovered the source of his roadblock one day when he said, "I started at shortstop for my high school baseball team all four years, and my father never showed up for a single game."

This young man got the message that he wasn’t a priority in his father’s life. The message was: You’d better be careful not to trust relationships too deeply.

The D in D.A.D. is for determine your priorities and make sure that your family is at or near the top as you listen to life and make a life today.

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