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Have you ever received a piece of news that instantly transported you into the future and changed the way you saw everything in the present?<\/p>\n

In mid-March, I was checking in with my wife by phone from a hotel room in Atlanta following the first completed day of my new job, and I could tell something was off. After some coaxing, she acknowledged she needed to share something, but she wanted to wait until I got home. She wanted me to keep a clear head for the new gig. Two more days. But you know I couldn\u2019t wait for that.<\/p>\n

Among a couple of outlandish guesses to rule out the ridiculous, I landed on the announcement we presumed was a medical impossibility\u2014my wife was pregnant. That explained the nagging nausea over the past month. And the four positive pregnancy tests that afternoon.<\/p>\n

To offer a touch more perspective, in addition to operating under the assumption that pregnancy wasn\u2019t possible, my wife is 43 and I\u2019m 47. We\u2019d just been married five months prior. We have two amazing sons from my first marriage, ages 19 and 17, and were a year away from a blissful early empty nest hood. We weren\u2019t planning on having any more children. Now, we\u2019d begun an 18-year reset.<\/p>\n

But after I talked my wife down from the initial shock\u2014even fear\u2014and we began to see this unexpected addition as the miraculous blessing that she is, I hung up the phone, closed my eyes, took an exaggerated inhale followed by a prodigious exhale, and a very clear vision appeared:<\/p>\n

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I saw myself 18 years from now at a high school graduation.<\/p>\n

It was a visceral vision beyond mere imagination. I could see myself there, taking pictures, having pictures taken, shaking hands, hugging, smiling, proud, happy, content.<\/p>\n

That vision moved me to action. The very next day, I did the following:<\/p>\n