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I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over

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All right, everyone, welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast. Here on the weekends, we go in-depth on topics.

Sometimes it's a meditation for me. Sometimes it's an interview with a guest. And sometimes

it is a conversation with my partner, Nealz Parker. That's what we're doing today as we

wrap up the year. Neal's, I was just thinking about this because you and I are

both doing the final edits on it, the New Year and New You Challenge for Daily Stoic, the idea of

like setting aside the first couple weeks of the year to like really push yourself to sort of do hard stuff.

Obviously, this is the time where people think about New Year's resolutions.

By the way, everyone, if you're just hearing about the New Year and New Year Challenge just now,

we'd love to have you sign up. It's at dailystoke.com slash challenge it's my favorite thing to do

at the beginning of the year i think i'm the thing this is our fourth one i have a whole bunch of

habits and changes uh that have come from doing it each year and i do it alongside everyone uh but

but niels i thought we might talk about sort of new year's resolutions a little bit because I feel like,

like, look, if you're just a regular person, you're like, hey, I want to lose like five pounds or,

hey, I want to stop chewing my nails or, you know, this year I want to meet someone.

But when you have kids, the, there's sort of two, there's a couple layers that the resolutions are working

under. One is just like, how are you resolving to be a better person and thus a better parent

or sort of what resolutions you can make as to be a better parent. But then I was also just

thinking of like, I don't, I mean, I remember maybe my

parents like, I remember Slim Fast being a thing in our house for a while. But other than that,

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