Kids are the only thing in life that I found to be better than what I thought they would be.

Everything else in life, by the time I got it was just so-so. Like becoming a New York Times best seller. By the time I got there, big deal. It really didn’t make any big significant change in my life, except, maybe, to be able to call all my friends and brag about the fact that a kid like me who flunked English in college actually made the New York Time Best Seller list. Even building my first million dollar company did not change my life significantly. Even after my first two businesses failed.

By the time I reached these professional milestones, it was no big thing. I was already well on my way to doing the things I really wanted to do. But having a child truly changed my life. It enriched my life like nothing has ever done before or since. It taught me more than anything else in life. It made me a better person, both personally and professionally.

I thought professional milestones would be the really big occasions that would change my life and having children would just be another nice little bright light on the road of life. But it really was the other way around.

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