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Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. We're kicking off 2022 with some tips for a better you. You've probably listened to some of my conversations with my writing partner, Neals Parker, and I. And here are some thoughts that Nealz and I have kicked around over the last year.

One, how to maintain positive habits and routines.

As we've said before, things are not returning to normal.

We are in a fortunately kind of forever pandemic world or a world forever changed by the pandemic.

How do you develop and

maintain positive habits and routines as a parent, as a productive member of society, as a

professional at whatever it is that you do? And so we're going to talk about some habits that

Niels and I have developed, I think are going to be beneficial. And then related to this,

because there have been positive habits and negative habits,

I think all of us are spending more time than we like or should be on our devices. And so,

Nealz and I also kick around managing screen time as a parent, how to keep our attention focused on

what matters, our kids, not on our email, Twitter, whatever, how to get out of the doom scrolling loop and all of that. And just what we're up against with these devices. So in

today's episode, we've got some tips for a better you in 2022. Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another

weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. Sometimes we do some extended riffing on certain topics. Sometimes we do best of clips from the Daily Stoad podcast. And then on some of my favorite days, I kick some topics around with my writing partner, Nealz Parker, also the parent of a young

child. Niels, I was thinking about this. People would talk about like things going back to normal.

And I sort of joked like, normal is what caused this. So wanting to go back to normal seems like a mistake.

And the reality is there's no such thing as normal.

But one of the things I was thinking about, I've been trying to sort of make a list of

like habits or practices that I've picked up from sort of pandemic slash bubble quarantine life

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