Be A Successful Dad Blog

A blog designed to help Dads be the best version of themselves for their families!

  • Be Creative

    Be Creative

    One of the keys to life that I strongly adhere to is: being creative. This doesn’t mean that you need to be an artsy type of person or whimsical but just be creative. For Christmas each year I like to make something with wood. My grandfather was (still is, he’s just old and doesn’t do

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  • Don’t Dwell On It

    Don’t Dwell On It

    Sometimes as parents we tend to dwell on things. Maybe we shouldn’t have yelled like we did and we think about that for a long time – longer than we should. Or maybe, we did something and realized it was a bad example for our kids and now we are worried we have instilled a

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  • Burnout.

    Burnout.

    Parents. Dudes. Gals. Burnout is real. It’s not just an ideology or a saying but burnout happens to us all. It is different for each of us, too. One persons burnout might be another person standard operation. Or it could be someone’s heavy crashing. But we all experience it and we all experience it differently.

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  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Take today to some good. Give thanks. Say a prayer. Spend time with loved ones. I’m not writing much for today’s post. Just enjoy the day with your family.

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  • Put in the Work

    Put in the Work

    Parenting is hard. Being a dad is hard. Being a mom is hard. It is not easy to be a parent. As a dad, I try to be the best that I can be. It’s not always sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes I fail. Sometimes I succeed. I try to put in the work to be

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  • Kids Don’t Come with Manuals

    Kids Don’t Come with Manuals

    Anyone can go to IKEA and purchase a bed, cabinets, shelving, desks, chairs, or any home ware you can think about. They come with a very crude manual. Just a few pictures and images that layout the steps to put the furniture together. Even though the directions are limited you can still put it together

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