Wasn't it just yesterday I told my new neighbor I'd stop by to play ping pong with him this week? Wait, no way! It couldn't have been on Sunday, almost FIVE days ago! How does time go by so quickly? It's a strange thing; the faster I move in my race against time, the faster those evil clock hands turn! It frustrates me when I think about how time keeps on ticking and there's nothing I can do about it. What scares me most is that if I keep up this pace trying to outrun time, and time keeps beating me more and more severely... I'm going to be eighty years old by the end of next week!

That saying keeps popping into my head "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans". I have all these big plans and they keep distracting me from the beautiful life that is sitting right in front of me. I constantly have to remind myself that Aidan is only 2 years old for another couple of months. Then he'll be 3 and then 5 and then 16! I was putting him to bed last night and he told me to lay on the floor. I did. He then proceeded to pull all of his blankets out of his crib and lay them over me. He brought me his favorite stuffed animals "Baby Giraffe" and "Bitsy Giraffe" and tucked them under the blankets with me. He dimmed the lights, turned on the little thing that makes ocean wave sounds, kissed me on the cheek and said, "shhhhh... go night-night Daddy." It was so cute! He was totally reversing the roles on me :)

It's funny how when we're little, we want to be grown up and when we're grown up, we wish life could be simple again.

My new baby Logan is barely 3 weeks old and is starting to react to us and stare back with funny expressions. This stage will only last a couple more weeks before he's on to something else. Life is so short. It's too short to make so many plans. I want to live each day with my wife and kids like it's my last. Even if I fail miserably at my business because I've spent too much time with my family, at least I didn't fail with my family spending too much time with my business.

I think there is only one way to beat the clock: It's to spend time on the important things.

Steve Miller's got an opinion on this. Read the lyrics http://www.mikecolon.net/blog/2007/02/time...lipin-into.html

Thanks for the reminder Mike-
It seems it is a bit of the self employment curse....
freedom to be there for your kids....

life is right there in front of you-
me too-

my daughters are always reminding me to slow down-

Lisa

Mike,

Thanks so much for sharing such a great post. I have made a resolution this year to spend more time with my kids and less time on the computer/business. I have moved to outsourcing more stuff so I have more time to spend with the family. My oldest daughter is going to be in Kindergarten next year and my youngest is getting bigger everyday. I feel like I am living the movie Click, where I all of a sudden wake up one day and so much has passed me by. Anyone who hasn't seen Click yet, I highly recommend it. Watching it gives me such a wake up call.

Big D

Great post Mike. I have two kids as well. One is 2 1/2 and the other 2 months. The other day I was getting ready to walk out the door to my "full time" job and my oldest one says "daddy please don't go to work, stay and play with me". It's tough when you hear those words coming out of your child's mouth. Hopefully my kids won't grow up singing "cats in the craddle". That song always reminded me of what I never hoped I would do to my kids!

We just did our nightly run to click about 3 nights ago - I HIGHLY recommend this movie. HIGHLY recommending Adam Sandler even for me is no light thing! I love love this movie and will watch it again. (I also highly recommend NOT running to Miami Vice - it's too quiet and you can't hear what the bad guys are trying to say in broken English)

M

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