ITL226: Are You Just Raising Great Kids, or Great Kids Who Will Become Great Adults?

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on balancing between our work lives and family lives.

Sometimes to get a balance in your life, you have to fall out of balance a little bit.

You’re going to have to go over to the other side to get it balanced.
Don’t be afraid to move swiftly and make things happen quickly.
I see just as many families knocked out of balance by little league, basketball, and soccer as I do from Dad working.
Answer the question, “What do we want to happen?” Define what you’re after. What do we want it to look like?

When Austin was playing baseball, it was hard for all four of us to get together.

A lot of people would say, “Well, are we not going to let them play this? All their friends are playing. Everybody is playing.”
Let me remind you what your momma used to say. “You aren’t everybody.”
The end result of what everybody is doing can be a pretty average result.
If you think that allowing one child to play one sport is worth scattering your family to the edges of the earth for the majority of the year, you’re not doing anybody a favor.

When you figure out what you want to be, you can get clear on your priorities.

My family knows they are my priority.
Sometimes, for a week or so, the priority is to lock myself in a closet and write, but that is only a means to an end and not the end.
In almost every area of life, it’s the communication that is the key.
You can intentionally engage your time and energy to create who you are to your family and create what they remember.
Because you can create who you are, and because you can create how they remember, you are creating who they will become.

Tune in to hear examples of how we set expectations during family time and how you can clearly communicate when exceptions must be made.

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:12.9	Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Lloyd. Andy, where are you in the world today? Are you at home?
0:20.7	I am in Orange Beach. Yeah, I'm at home. I got up early, early, early this morning and I came down to the office and I've been writing and then like a couple or three hours later, everybody gets up and the boys are gone to school. And so Polly is, I'm not really
0:39.7	sure where Polly is right now, but she's somewhere great, I'm sure. Wherever it is, it's better
0:45.7	because she's there. How about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just knew, I ask only because I know in
0:51.5	the last several weeks, you've been, gosh, Charlotte to Salt Lake, to Boise, to Oklahoma, to...
0:59.0	Las Vegas.
1:01.0	Yes.
1:02.0	Yeah, I mean, yeah, everything.
1:03.0	The list goes on and on.
1:04.0	I got to stand on the blue turf at Boise State.
1:07.0	Oh, no way, the blue field.
1:09.0	Oh, yes.
1:10.0	My boy said, hey, dad, make sure you see the smurf turf.
1:13.4	The smurf turf. And we were doing a, you know, doing a thing there in that, in that stadium.
1:18.4	And so I got to, yeah, I took a picture of it, like, really close and sent it to the boys.
1:25.1	I bet they love that. Oh, it's awesome. It's awesome. You know, that was that game, that game that, uh, and I know, Oklahoma fans are probably like, oh, no, no, no, no, nah, nah, nah, but, you know, a bunch of years ago in the Fiesta Bowl when, you know, Oklahoma played, and it was like, who is this? Who's Boise State? I don't even know who they are. And we kind of halfway watch that game as the game got going, and then got to the end and those overtimes, and then Boise State ended up winning on those trick plays. And it was like the greatest college football game I've ever seen. We've kind of been aware of them ever since. Exactly. And now Oklahoma fans, you can join the conversation again.
2:02.4	Come back. Sorry. Oh, that's great. Andy, we've got a fun topic to cover today. A lot of people
2:08.3	have been asking you recently about how do you balance this crazy travel schedule that you do, the
2:16.2	writing that you do. you do a lot of consulting
2:18.6	and talking with companies, coaches, teams, all of that stuff. There's a lot on your plate.
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