How to Stop Obsessing Over Life's Trivial Problems
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Our previous episode was called A Father's Last words and it was something TDE has never done before. Brian Froneyberger bravely and generously gave of the perspective of a father who was dying of cancer. It was a true privilege to listen to his wisdom about what really matters to a person who knows their time is running out. Tragically, he passed away between the recording and release of the show and his funeral service was held the very day his episode came out.
Having this conversation with Brian forced things into perspective. We often get frustrated with our kids. We get irritable with our spouses. We stress about work. Most feel like we're under a burden of obligations, but we have the choice to turn this around. Brian would give anything to be here having the problems we are facing right now.
It's not what happens to us, it's how we respond to it. We can be the calm in the middle of the storm if we don't obsess over life's trivial problems. When we're feeling stressed, depressed, or hopeless, we must ask ourselves, is worrying really worthy of our precious time? Wouldn't it be better to focus our emotions on what really matters in life? Shouldn't we be giving our energy to the things that we love instead of those we hate?
For the show notes and the links in this episode go to gooddadproject.com/thursday127.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.0 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:29.0 | Hey gentlemen what's going on? Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Larry Hagner. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm your host and founder of the Dad Edge Podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. I'm your host and founder of the Dad Edge |
| 0:34.4 | podcast formerly known as the Good Dad Project Podcast. Hey I am throwing |
| 0:40.2 | together this quick Thursday throwdown totally last minute. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm actually recording this the Monday before you are hearing it because |
| 0:50.6 | this week's Thursday throwdown would no longer be appropriate with the things that have transpired over the past 10 days. |
| 0:58.0 | For those of you guys who didn't catch the interview on Monday. |
| 1:03.5 | I interviewed a local man here by the name of Brian Froneyberger, |
| 1:07.3 | who, and the show was entitled a father's last words. |
| 1:11.2 | The show was incredibly successful. The downloads were some of the biggest I've seen in a long time and I don't say that to to necessarily brag about the downloads. |
| 1:22.8 | I say that because Brian's message must have hit so many people |
| 1:27.6 | in such a profound way that my original Thursday throwdown for today would not have been appropriate. |
| 1:36.0 | So I want to go back and I want to re-record something fresh for you guys and something that was truly on my heart and wanted to share some things that I gained from |
| 1:46.0 | that doing that interview and actually re-listening to it after it launches and truth be |
| 1:51.3 | told I don't listen to my own shows. I just don't after they're released. I don't know why I don't I just don't |
| 1:58.1 | Unless they're really good is for and when I say really good I mean the guest I don't mean me |
| 2:02.4 | But you know I'll go back and listen to some of them And when I say really good, I mean the guest, I don't mean me. |
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