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Review: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel (Orlando Florida) Every Hotel has its pluses and it’s negative – here is my review of the Doubletree Orlando, Florida hotel by Hilton. I have a lot to say! If you didn’t know my story starts with Walt Disney trying to cheat me with what look like to me like a sort of "bait and switch" kind of scam. After searching for the closest hotel to Sea World to take my mini-weekend valentine vacation with the wife, who decided to take the kids with us (Ohm – Don’t ask me, I still don’t know why she did that?) I settled on the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel. It was too cold for Coco Keys, it’s a great Hotel but it’s mostly a water park – not the kind of thing I wanted to do when it’s chilly. Besides, I wanted to try something new, something deferent and most of all – something elegant; something that was as close as possible to sea world as I could get. After all, that was where we were headed before my wife converted a “you and me” setting to a w...

Is it wrong to motivate my child to succeed? I wrote a bit about my book and my thoughts on motivating children to learn and I received an interesting comment from an anonymous commentator. Comment: 02/5/2014 at 02:48 PM I know of no child that wants to become rich and successful. They want to be happy. If they want to be rich, that's the way you taught them to be, and I find that shallow. I may have addressed this before at another forum but I am going to share my thoughts here as well, since it’s my personal blog about my personal thoughts, opinions and beliefs. As to the assertion of my anonymous commentator made that children “do not want” to be rich and successful – is troubling to me. My experience has been that anyone that is anyone wants to be successful in one thing or another. By this I mean that no one, especially a child goes around saying – I want to fail. In fact children just like adults hate to fail. No one likes to feel like a failure or to be consid...

I am no math wizard but I love to hear that my son tells his teacher “Oh, I know that – my father already taught me that”. It’s a wonderful feeling. But as I said, I am not a math wizard and I certainly do harness the power of the internet. I used YouTube and other sources to teach my son math subjects like fractions, order of operations: I love order of operations it involves multiplication, division, exponents, addition and subtraction all in one equation. Personally I think it’s the best way to have a young child practice all of his basic math skills. Of course that doesn’t mean I do not run into my fair share of mathematical problems but that is what the internet is for – it’s a life saver. For instance, my daughter came to me the other night asking for help with a math problem – college algebra, I know a little about that so I said sure: this was way beyond my comprehension. So first I asked her to show me what her teacher had shown her in class and to give me a rundown of...

Book review critic hates the word RICH?? I was minding my own business and I get this interesting email notification on my cell: book cretic leaves comment on an Amazon forum. So of course being the curious type I just had to read it. This is what this Amazon critic had to say about my book: “Despite your books good intentions – your title is boring.” What? I was literally floored – who is this person and what do they mean by my book title is boring? My first reaction was to want to rant: who the hell do you…… (“Expletive language” not appropriate for a person like me) – But I didn’t. So I did the next best thing, I wrote back to this critic asking what suggestions they might have to improve the title of my children’s book: for children how to become Rich, Successful and Do well in school. An hour later I get a response which basically says: It is not my job to tell an author what his title to his book should be that is up to them. But the use of the word “Rich” in your title...

How to Create the Motivation to Do Well in School? Children can play video games for hours, they forget the time while they are running wild on a football field or soccer field, but ask them to sit for a few minutes to do math or science and all hell breaks loose. Getting children motivated in learning can be a difficult chore at best. Here are a few tips to help create the motivation to do well in school and in all future endeavors in life. How to Create the Motivation to Do Well in School? Children can play video games for hours, they forget the time while they are running wild on a football field or soccer field, but ask them to sit for a few minutes to do math or science and all hell breaks loose. Getting children motivated in learning can be a difficult chore at best. Here are a few tips to help create the motivation to do well in school and in all future endeavors in life. First Step: Start early. By this I mean early as in the literal sense – learning should be a fun exper...

I always love interesting stories and this one is just that - very interesting. Why I Choose to be Rich and Homeless How much could you pack in a single suitcase? Thirty-six-year-old Natalie Sisson manages to fit her entire life in one bag. For nearly four years, Sisson has been homeless. But it’s not what you think. The New Zealand native travels the world, living out of her suitcase and running a business from her laptop. She doesn’t have a permanent residence and calls herself ‘The Suitcase Entrepreneur,” also the title of her blog and book. “People think that I’m either crazy, a little bit strange or they think it sounds fantastic,” she says. “I like to think of myself as a citizen of the world. Wherever I place my suitcase, that’s kind of my home.” She identifies as a new breed of worker, the “digital nomad,” someone who works exclusively online and isn’t tied to a single geographic location. “I have about eight revenue streams. My blog brings in some form of advertising...

I am a funny Dad for a logical reason... Growing up without a father and watching my mother do her best to raise us all – seven children by the way, all on her own, it breed in me a deep need to be the best father, parent and husband I could be. Now I am not saying I am the best, my wife I am sure can come up with a few complaints to prove that I am simply trying my best to be good at these things. But as I watch my children grow up I learn more and more each day and one of the things I am constantly reminded and struggle hard to achieve can be summed up in one famous quote: “Our children need our presence, not our presents.” -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr . If there is anything I can do for my children, with all my heart I will do it. The reason I joke around, act like a child when others are working so hard to be sophisticated, mature and oh so proper – is because I know time is short. Life flies by and before you know it the kids are grown, you are old and you are wondering ...