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.

Just pick yourself up.

Maybe you haven't been as good of a dad as you'd like to be lately.

You were on your phone too much. You let your short temper get the best of you. You prioritized work over family. You got too wrapped up in your expectations. You were too harsh. You didn't see things their way. Well, that's all in the past. It happened. It shouldn't have, but it did. And there's nothing you can do now to undo it. The question is, now what? We have the power at any moment to get back on track. We can

always choose, always, to return to the standards we want to live up to as parents. It's like with

a diet. You can slip a little, then a little more, then the next

thing you know, you've eaten a whole sleeve of Oreos. Okay, that happened. But tomorrow hasn't

yet. You have a choice. Will you do better? Will you do what you know is right? Will you follow the

plan you set for yourself before the Oreo debacle? No parent has any time to indulge in pity parties,

nor can any parent justify a continued slide. We screw up, we fall short, we're not what we

want to be, what we promised ourselves we would be, what we owe our kids. And we can choose right

now to get back on track.

We can choose to be better right now.

Will you?

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