Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent.

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

Show them how to be beautiful.

Epitita said that the root of beauty was beautiful choices. If your

choices are beautiful, he said, so too will you be. And it's simple and it's true. You are what your

choices make, you nothing more and nothing less. As we get to the end of 2022 and the start of

2023, it's the perfect time to assess, are you

making beautiful choices?

Are you modeling beautiful behaviors?

Are your kids seeing you choose the book instead of the television remote?

Are you choosing no to say cool opportunities to say yes to your kids?

Every day presents us with plenty of opportunities to make beautiful choices. There's the little

choice we have to make, what we eat, how we talk to people, whether we pick up the phone or the

journal, what you think about. And some days there's bigger choices, whether you stand up for what's

right, whether you reach down to help someone who needs it, what kind of work you do, what kind of

standards you hold yourself to. If you want a

beautiful life, there's no escaping it. You have to make beautiful choices. If you want your

kids to have a beautiful life, they will need to get in the habit of making beautiful choices, too.

And if not you, who will show them how to do this? The new year is almost here.

And look, as we're staring down, just a few more weeks till the end of the year,

one choice you can make, one choice I think that will challenge you and make you better this year,

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