The Upside: Killer Sales Tips from the folks at Glance Networks

If you’ve read any of my previous posts you will see a theme of referring to my father. For most of us, “these guys” have a way of impacting our lives.

This Sunday my mother celebrates her birthday, however, I can’t begin to guess her age, as she never has told us. My father was born in 1929, so you might start there.

We grew up in a small house in Kittery, Maine; a street called Love Lane. In that small 4 bedroom, my parents raised 7 kids. I can remember every morning my father would take his lunch pail and walk to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard while my mother would see to the needs of the seven of us kids.

At that time, I always saw my father as the head of the household, mostly because he would regularly remind us of that whenever we stepped out of line. He didn’t have to say so however, because by watching his work ethic, it was easy to respect him. However, I’m going to put my father aside for the moment, because we all know it was really my mother that ran the joint.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner for seven every day, laundry for seven, ironing for seven, grocery shopping for seven, church for seven, sports for seven, doctors, etc. You name it, my mother did it. In fact, she still does.

I compare it to raising three kids of