I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in RELATIONSHIPS. I have FAMILY and friends and people I care very MUCH about. I've GOT a really, really, really good life.
Read MoreYou can't please everyone. When you're too focused on LIVING up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may WHISPER, complain and JUDGE. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you THINK. Why? They have their own problems!
Read MoreIn this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the BATTLEFIELD BASED on trust across service lines, across COALITION and NATIONAL lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
Read MoreIt's not DIFFICULT to take care of a child; it's difficult to do ANYTHING else while taking care of a child. TRYING to CLEAN up the kitchen after you've had a BABY is a nightmare because you have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you're exhausted, and you really don't want to clean up the kitchen now.
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