Nick Bare

Another thing that I'm learning right now in terms of parenting is you can't control everything.

Like obvious, right?

But it's perhaps the most humbling and profound lesson that I have learned

experienced as a parent so far.

Two young kids, two toddlers.

Steph and I recently recorded a podcast.

And if you listened to that episode, we talked about how we're trying for our third this spring.

Who knows if we're going to have three kids, if we're going to have four kids, how big the Bayer family is going to be.

But I've learned and I'm learning still every single day that

As a parent, you can't control everything as much as you want to.

And that influence and or teaching is much greater to embrace than control.

So here's an example of what I'm learning through control and the difference between influence and or teaching and control.

I'm a neat freak in some situations in my life.

I don't like clutter.

The team here knows at BPN that if I'm walking around and there's empty boxes sitting on the floor next to someone's desk, or there's a pair of shoes that were sitting in the locker room for a few days,

unclaimed, or there's a weight out of place in the gym, I'm either going to put it back to where it belongs or I'm going to throw it away.

There have been many instances over the years, the many years where people's personal belongings have gotten thrown away because they left them out, uncleaned, unorganized, unclaimed.

So I pick it up, I throw it away.

Boxes,

that are just empty, scattered throughout the office.