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.

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Stop winging this. We're so intentional about our careers, crafting five-year plans and monthly goals and to-do lists and annual reviews.

We track milestones. We push ourselves to always be leveling up. But when it comes to the people we love, when it comes to our personal lives, there's a tendency to just wing it, to assume that a successful family, a marriage, a relationship will just happen on its own.

In his new book, What You're Made for, Powerful Lessons from My Career in Sports,

one of my mentors, one of my favorite people in the whole world, Hall of Fame basketball

coach George Ravling, he talks about how we need to put as much thought and effort and strategy

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I believe that more families would benefit from clearly defining each member's role and openly

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