by Michael Holland Your potential is determined by your inner circle: those closest to you. Basically, your success as a man builds from the strength of the immediate team that surrounds you. This team can enable you and make you stronger or hold you back. You need strong, dedicated, forward-thinking, and positive players [...]
by Michael Holland As you eat breakfast, make mental notes on some aspect of each of your kids’ activities from the previous day or evening. Visualize the situation and make a mental movie of the impact of the activity or behavior had on them and/or others. During your afternoon commute home, take [...]
by Michael Holland As my friend Jerry says, you can have a bad day or bad month or even a bad year, but it’s pretty hard to have a bad 5 years. And what is important in life is not individual days or months, but your trend line. And the measure of your success [...]
By Michael Holland We plan and guide and push and pull our kids towards paths that we envision will help them be successful in life. What's been so interesting for us over the last couple of years is how different the paths our kids have taken have been from our vision. I find myself in [...]
By Michael Holland In the midst of chaos as a man/father/husband, you are primed to act. Your "action" differs by season of life but the essence of the action remains the same: solve the problem in front of you as quickly as possible. But that's not what great men/fathers/husbands do. Great men/fathers/husbands lift up out [...]
By Michael Holland It's the little things that help a marriage keep it's momentum. Each morning, I walk my wife to her car as she leaves for work. It's a rather small ritual and could be seen as insignificant in the hectic world in which we all choose to live. At times I feel [...]
By Michael Holland In pursuit of my self-described Christian Businessman PhD, I started on a quest in early 2010 to read 100 books to increase my knowledge, exposure and intellect. I achieved that goal in late 2012 and now, each year, I strive to read as many books as possible while also listening [...]
By Michael Holland "Even when I breathe I disgust my daughter." A man quoted this to me this week as he described his current season of life with 2 teenage daughters. What is it about teenage girls that requires them to vent every ounce of frustration and drama at their parents? These teenage [...]
By Michael Holland In pursuit of my self-described Christian Businessman PhD, I started on a quest in early 2010 to read 100 books to increase my knowledge, exposure and intellect. I achieved that goal in late 2012 and now, each year, I strive to read as many books as possible while also listening to [...]
by Michael Holland We had family in over a weekend recently for one of my son’s plays. One of my twenty-something nieces was having trouble with her busted-up iPhone, so I offered up one of our old ones as a replacement. To her query regarding payment, I went old school, saying, “one day I’ll call [...]
