If You Feel Upset, Do This
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
You’re upset because you just blew it in that meeting. You’re kicking yourself because you meant to get up early and ended up sleeping through your alarm and missing a flight. You’re stressed about the business, you wish your marriage was better, you hate the way your house looks from the street. You can’t watch the news without being disgusted or outraged or worried.
What should you do? How can you deal with the creeping overwhelm that each of these problems has come to represent?
Go spend time with your kids. Seriously. 5 minutes. 15 minutes. 5 hours. Watch as those feelings melt away. Not because you’ve ignored them, but because they’ve been placed in perspective. Your kid doesn’t think you’re garbage because you messed up at work. Your kid doesn’t care about the economy. They’re not anxious. They’re not cynical. They’re not riding you about anything.
They’re present. They’re happy. They’re grateful. They’re wonderful and they think you’re wonderful. Soak that in. Let them rub off on you. Have fun. Be reminded of what life was like before all these responsibilities fell onto your shoulders. And then, properly refreshed and reset, go back and tackle your problems the only way you can: one at a time, in the way that’s best for you and the people you love.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.1 | If you feel upset, do this. |
| 0:36.1 | You're upset because you just blew it in that meeting. You're kicking |
| 0:39.6 | yourself because you meant to get up early and ended up sleeping through your alarm and missing a flight. |
| 0:44.9 | You're stressed about the business. You wish your marriage was better. You hate the way your |
| 0:48.6 | house looks from the street. You can't watch the news without being disgusted or outraged or worried. |
| 0:55.0 | What should you do? |
| 0:55.8 | How can you deal with the creeping overwhelm that each of these problems has come to represent? |
| 1:02.0 | Go spend time with your kids. |
| 1:03.7 | Seriously, five minutes, 15 minutes, five hours. |
| 1:07.5 | Watch as those feelings melt away. |
| 1:10.0 | Not because you've ignored them, but because they've |
| 1:13.1 | been placed in perspective. Your kid doesn't think you're garbage because you messed up at work. |
| 1:18.4 | Your kid doesn't care about the economy. They're not anxious. They're not cynical. They're not |
| 1:22.8 | writing you about anything. They're present. They're happy. They're grateful. They're wonderful and they think |
| 1:29.6 | that you are wonderful. So soak that in. Let them rub off on you. Have fun. Be reminded of what |
| 1:36.7 | life was like before all these responsibilities fell onto your shoulders. And then properly |
| 1:42.5 | refreshed and reset. Go back and tackle your problems the only |
| 1:46.5 | way you can, one at a time, in the way that's best for you and the people that you love. |
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