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The Daily Dad

If You Can Now, You Should

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

Relationships, Education, Dads, Parenting, Ryan Holiday, Fatherhood, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Wisdom, Kids & Family

4.6630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Later, they might not want to anymore. Later the opportunity might not exist.


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0:32.3

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

0:39.8

most important job, being a parent. I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient

0:46.9

philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening,

0:57.2

and we hope this helps. If you can now, you should. Later, you might get a phone call. Later,

1:06.0

you might come down with something. They might come down with something. Later, it might get

1:10.4

dark sooner than you think or colder than you think. Later, it might get dark sooner than you think

1:11.4

or colder than you think. Later, the event might sell out or the thing discontinued. Later,

1:16.7

they might not want it anymore. Later, the opportunity might not exist. So if you can do it now,

1:23.3

you should do it now. Jump in the pool now. Show them that funny clip you saw now.

1:29.3

FaceTime with your parents or nieces or nephews or siblings now.

1:33.2

Squeeze in that trip to the park now.

1:35.9

Squeeze in that family trip before the school year starts.

1:39.2

Get down on the floor and wrestle with them now.

1:41.4

Tell them that story now.

1:42.6

Give them that little surprise you got them now. Later is never guaranteed, the Stoics remind us. One of the most moving

1:50.7

stories we tell in the Daily Dad book is about the adventurous day that Franklin Roosevelt spent

1:56.3

with his children before the latent polio virus suddenly did its horrors to his body that very night.

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