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I learned recently that babies won’t work too hard to eat. They’ll stop eating if their nipple makes them work to get the milk. We learned this because our girls stopped eating a few weeks ago. We bought new nipples with higher flow. They ate faster than ever. Babies don’t know that food is […]
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The girls stopped eating most of their bottles a few weeks ago. It was like they were on strike. We asked around and googled for insight. We learned something. We were using the wrong nipples. You can buy baby bottle nipples with different flow rates. You give higher flow rated nipples as the babies […]
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Jen was frustrated with me. We were talking about something that was on going for two months. I was giving her bits and pieces. She asked a question. I’d go back into something I told her about 4 weeks before and talk about that. She asked another question. I fast forward to another conversation […]
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Jen looked at me frustratedly. I sighed deeply, exasperated. We’d been talking for 10 minutes getting nowhere. She cried out, “This is going all over the place. Just tell me what happened!” Another sigh released from me. I went to the beginning of the story. Two months ago, I drove over a […]
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Will you give yourself permission to be uncomfortable today? Will you give yourself permission to be more than who you were yesterday? Will you give yourself permission to dig a hole for you to get out of tomorrow? Will you give yourself permission to seek that spark of an idea? Will you give […]
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Instead of asking ‘What do you think I should do?” ask someone “How would you go about doing this?” It moves the person you’re asking past the decision whether you should or shouldn’t. It gives them permission to talk about something they might not do themselves. It gives them permission to imagine a little bit. […]
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What do you think I should do? This is the question I’ve asked too many times (I still do). Sometimes I didn’t ask – but I let people answer for me anyway. We ask this thinking that it will help us when we’re trying to decide. It usually won’t. We might think we’re asking […]
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Let’s stick with the Lego theme. I’ve written about building ideas … ideas are the Lego blocks. Putting the blocks together is the execution. Many of us get caught in the idea trap. Accumulating ideas like a hoarder accumulates newspapers, cats and Elvis plates. The ideas pile up until we’re overwhelmed by them. They’re everywhere! […]
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I remember stepping on the Lego piece with my bare foot. I screamed, cursing. A cubic, sharp pebble cutting into my foot. It hurt! Yesterday, I talked about how building ideas is like playing with Legos. “The ideas are the blocks. Putting them together is the execution.” If you’re an “idea guy” (or gal), […]
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I love feeding my girls. They’re 7 months old. They don’t know what they’re doing. It’s a socio-science experiment. What will they like? What will they hate? Will they clamp their mouth shut? Will Ellie like one thing and Evie another? Jen and I treat every bite like it’s fun and tasty. “Mmmmmm”, “Yummmyyyyy”, “Yaaaaaaay”. […]
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