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Dads2Dads: Resolve to step up to the plate

Tom Tozer and Bill Black pose for a portrait Monday, March 28, 2016 at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Tom Tozer and Bill Black pose for a portrait Monday, March 28, 2016 at the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Tom Tozer and Bill Black pose for a portrait Monday, March 28, 2016 at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
photo Tom Tozer and Bill Black pose for a portrait Monday, March 28, 2016 at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

As we’ve said this month, the new year arrives and we make resolutions. We resolve to become improved versions of ourselves – eat a nutritious diet, finish what we start, be more patient, spend more time at home, cut back, inch forward and otherwise do better.

Yes, the new year is a good time to conduct a personal inventory – how can we change for the better, start those improvements that can make a difference in our lives and for those we love? The key is to focus on areas of highest interest to us – and to be specific about what we want to accomplish.

Resolutions have the potential to improve your effectiveness as a father and have a reasonable chance of success if you focus.

If you’re still with us with all this resolution talk, here’s your last one to keep for 2018.

Be a father