Aaron Walker Live From The Greenway!

We don't get ourselves in trouble immediately, like, wake up one day and we're 50 pounds overweight. It is the incremental things or little lapses that we do. Little things that we misjudge that they won't hurt us or the people around us down the road.

Who are you as an individual? How do you represent yourself? Are the things that you do unconsciously or consciously represent you as a good role model? We are a role model whether we like it or not. If we're doing life together my question to you today is, is what role model are you? What activities are you doing in your life that are instrumental in family members, your children, your peers, your colleagues, those people at work that are watching?

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While I was working on the new personal assessment that I'm putting together for our community. When I was reading through the family section, it kind of touched me, my own heart. I started thinking about my own family, and my daughters and my grandkids.

Guys, listen, I want you to lean in. Family is the most important dynamic of what we deal with each and everyday. I am all fired up about making money. I love to make money. I never want to take away from making more money today. Don't hear me wrong. I'm not saying making money's wrong. I want you to go make all the money that you can. Absolutely. What I don't want you to do is do it at the expense of your family. And what's difficult for some of you guys to hear right now is you're young, you've got a lot of financial obligations and responsibilities ahead of you. I know you're torn.

I get it man. Listen, believe me, for 40 years I've been getting that. I understand it. But some of you guys are doing this success thing at the expense of your children. Anybody can be a father but it takes a real man to be a daddy. I want you to build those boundaries. And be careful. When you come home at night and your little Billy or Susie says, "Daddy can we play?" Man shut those electronics off and go out in the yard and play with those kids. They never ever will ask you "Hey Daddy, how much money did you make today?" They don't care. What they want is your time and listen.

Spend the time with them. Don't cheat them out of the most important part of your day. Don't come home exhausted. Man up and go out there an play with those kids. And I promise you the returns on that time invested will be invaluable. Don't waste your whole life coming home one day with a pocketful of money to a house full of strangers. When you get old like me, fat and bald headed, you can look back and not have regrets. Again, make all the money you can but man when those kids come up to you and say "Daddy can we go out and play?" Just answer "Yes, I'm on my way!"

People are conditioned for complaining because everybody complains and hardly nobody compliments! But I learned that a compliment will get you far greater advantage than complaining. If you want to get results, start complimenting people around you. Start with your spouse - for the things he/she does right, your kids - for the simplest things they do, and then watch their performance level go up! Stop complaining, start complimenting!

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Stop finishing the other person's sentences. Stop creating adversaries. Create allies instead by letting the other person be the hero.

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