Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

Everything but this is temporary.

You've been working for this moment your whole life to make it into the league to sit behind the big desk to command the squadron to have the power. It was for these things that you sacrificed a lot, but now you think your family really has to sacrifice. Don't they understand how important this is? Don't they understand the stress that is

on your shoulders? They should put up with the fact that you're moody, distracted, busy, not around, right?

You're the big man. They have to get that. No, no, they don't. De Gaulle was that man. He helped

save France, then he ran it. Yet even at the height of his power, he reminded himself,

the presidency is temporary, family is permanent. So he put up boundaries. He carved out private time.

He refused to neglect the children who depended on him so much, particularly his mentally handicapped daughter, Anne.

We can't ever let ourselves forget that even

though we may be very important to the world to a small group of people, we are the whole world.

Nothing matters more than family and nothing is more permanent, and yet family is not permanent.

You can lose it. You can break it. You can drive it away. By all means, pursue your success,

realize your ambition, just make sure it's not coming at the cost of what actually matters.

We talk about this, actually, it's the first commandment, and are, of course, the Stoic

parent, ten commandments for becoming a great parent. Thou shall put thy family first. And that's what

Degal was doing. It's essential. You've got to check it out. And you can try that course at

dailystoic.com slash parent.