Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast.

Today's episode is a compilation of some of our best thoughts on teaching your children and yourself to have good habits.

We talk about the journaling habit, about loving history and books, about having rules and expectations, about how to grab the smooth handle handle as the Stoics say and then of course

cultivating good physical and mental health i think we're really going to like this compilation

we threw together and then just a note on better habits maybe you do something you could do

with your kids if they're old enough but the daily Stoic new year new you challenge is here

it's about to start in just a few days. 2023 New Year New Year New Year Challenge from Daily Stoke. It's 21 actionable challenges, one per day, begins in less than a week. And I'd love to have you join us. You can sign up at DailyStock.com slash challenge. I'm going to be doing it. I carry forward a bunch of habits. It certainly made me a better

parent over the years. I think you're really going to like it. DailyStoeck.com slash challenge.

Happy new year and let's get after it.

Please encourage them to do this. We told you the heartbreaking and beautiful story of Johnny Gunther

before the 17-year-old boy who was diagnosed with the brain tumor a few months before he was

supposed to begin his freshman year at Harvard. But how do we know his story? How did some of

Johnny's innermost thoughts and his brief life survive? Like Anne Frank,

whose life was also tragically cut short, he journaled about it. And he journaled about it because

his parents encouraged him too. You put it on my desk so gently, Johnny wrote at the diary

his parents gave him. You didn't tell me to use it. You just put it gently on my desk, remember? And then I began using it. I'm so glad. That journal became a resource, a safe place for him to deal with what must have been overwhelming emotions. Think about how angry he must have been and how much solace he might have found, as Anne Frank also did, in the patience of paper.

Those pages in that writing became also a place for Johnny to live on forever when the tumor finally overtook him.

Journaling isn't something we can force our kids do, but it is something we can encourage

gently as the Gunther's did. We can also model it. We can show them what the habit looks like

and share with them the journals of our own younger days or even their own younger days. We can make

the soft pitch of all the benefits, the role it has played in our own lives. But most importantly,

of all, we can show them the benefits of journaling through our actions, our mood, our patience,

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