Today I took my daughter to ballet class and stayed through the entire hour long class. I did the same thing last week. Her class was at 11. There were a couple soccer moms there but I was the only dad. Am I a ballet fan? No, not at all. In fact I don’t know a thing about ballet (not that the class is really ballet…more like a girls-only PE

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class) but I’ve really enjoyed going. What I especially appreciate is that I’m actually able to go and don’t have to use an early lunch hour to do it. Because my training facility isn’t open and I’m primarily doing consulting, speaking engagements and correspondence training, my schedule is very flexible. Flexible enough that I can go to mid-day ballet if I want to. I can’t tell you how nice it is to have this kind of flexibility and any time I have any doubts about the uncertainty of my business pursuits I remember that it’s things like mid-day ballet with my daughter that easily outweigh any potential drawbacks.

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1. Selina
   April 22, 2009
   

   I did much of the same thing when my daughter came along….I had an amazing career with the Smithsonian, but I made the discussion to quit my job and do my art full time for the same reason…I wanted to spend that precious time with her…I am so glad I did bc now looking back I was there for all those special moments that no amount of money or career could ever out weigh!!! I had that one comfort when we lost Mazzy…knowing that I was there with her day in day out and that we had all those precious memories.

   So enjoy every moment…and know that your daughter loves you even more for all of it!!!
   

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2. mike
   April 22, 2009
   

   Thanks Selina. I’m really sorry to hear about your daughter but it seems like you have a great perspective and it’s nice to hear from another person with similar values.

   BTW- I saw your FB request after seeing this posts and mistakenly thought it was a spam request and ignored it. I tried to find you to send a request of my own but I couldn’t ‘find’ you.

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3. Selina
   April 25, 2009
   

   No worries…here I am…http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=769630496&ref=profile

   ~Cheers~

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