never max out your work time with how much work you have.

All right, guys, welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. I wanted to do a little list with

you guys. Top five tips to integrate family without sacrificing work. We had a couple of dads in our

Facebook group mentioned that, man, how do you do this thing? How do you work from home when your

kids are running around and you feel distracted all the time? So we're going to go back and forth.

Jeff, what's one of the things that has helped you guys? Yeah, so I love this. One really easy one is

just make sure meal times are with the kids or something like that. So I always, you know, and it's,

you know, different if you have to go in office, whatever. Everyone's in quarantine right now. So I would mostly.

So I would say, yeah, like, you know, try to have the breakfast with the family or try to

have lunch with the family.

And don't just like, you know, functionally put food in your mouth, but just elevate it one little bit, you know, take five minutes and like read a funny joke or a story that you looked up before then or something like that. But activating meal times to kind of be a little bit

more sacred and special, even if they're 10 minutes long, 15 minutes long, if they're intentional,

10 minutes actually is really strong every day. That's good. All right, guys, tip number two, I really, when I was taking my kids, even to the office, but I would do this when I work from home as well, is I like to work a schedule of 15 minutes on, 10 minutes off when I'm with around the kids. And so that that really allows me to be a little bit

more strict about like, okay, I'm on. But every 10 minutes I came out and like said, how are you guys doing? What are you working on? Now, when I was taking one of my kids to work every day, this really was critical. So you can imagine all my meetings ended, you know, instead of having them back to back, they were 50 minutes long instead of 60 minutes long. So I had 10 minute break in between, which is for me better for productivity anyway. There's a lot of research around that. And so during that 10 minute break where I just need to walk around, clear my head. I always like just walked up to, I had one of my kids with me, you know, and they were working, even when they were really young and just working on like homework or you know puzzles or whatever and I sit down is how you

doing like to my kids with me, you know, and they were working, even when they were really young and just working on like homework or, you know, puzzles or whatever. And I'd sit down as how you doing? Like, how's it working? You kind of stimulate them a little bit, encourage them a little bit, make sure that they're on to the next thing before I jump back into my work. So that sort of 15 minutes on, 10 minutes off, that kind of rhythm really worked well for us.

I love that. I'm stealing that one. So I'll start that next week. The next one for me is,

I call it sometimes hump week or just give every day a name, stuff like that. But essentially,

what I love about that one is at least have times in the week where you are, you can be dedicated

to your work and the kids know it and have times in your week where it's like they know that they're going to get you all in, not kind of half on your phone or whatever, you know? And so an easy one for us, there's a lot of moments in the week, but the big one that everyone looks forward to is Wednesday is our field trip day. So that always means like my phone stays at home. We go out. We go to the park. We go for a walk. We go to the beach. Anything like that, you know, two, three, four hour chunk,

not even, you know, my phone's not even with me. You know, Alyssa has one just in case something happens or something. But stuff like that. So then they can look forward to that. But then I also can, you know, be working hard on Monday and Tuesday because they know that's coming, stuff like that.

So that's another one.

Awesome.

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