Around town, I see all sorts of teamwork going on. There are youth sports teams, high school drill teams, charity teams, street teams for bands, debate teams at school. You see a lot of teambuilding exercises at work. I even see some great teamwork going on between the vendors at the McKinney market. But there is one team that sits at the top for me. Family. I don't often see family be compared as a team; a unit of people working together to function and accomplish all sorts of goals.
I ponder a lot of ideas, and get a lot of my inspiration for blog topics from my own adventures and life events, usually while holding my baby daughter. Yesterday I had to remind myself while she was in need of consolation, this is a team effort. As the man of my house, I have to be there through the best and worst of times and keep my head in the game. I have to be there for my team.
With teambuilding at work, where you're sorting out routine processes, people may be learning how to work together, putting a Band-Aid on some sort of procedural glitch, and create a professional harmony.
At the market, it's a "hey can you make me some change for this 20?" scenario....
But the family team is lifelong. It's not a seasonal thing like a sport, and it's not a 9-5 thing like work. It's loved ones working together to function, or achieve many goals ranging from very simple to very complex and challenging. Obviously this evolves over time as we all get older and our roles change in our loved ones' lives. Children become adults, adults become parents, and parents become grandparents, etc. But even as things evolve over time, family still requires teamwork.
I've found as a new dad, this is something I occasionally have to remind myself when I get off track.
-DAN+McKinneyTX-
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