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.

We've talked about this a million times. Dr. Becky Kennedy, one of my favorites,

her amazing book, been inside. She says, it's never too late. And we have had a bunch of emails about this. Nell Painter's mother became an author late in life. And then Nell Painter herself, who went back to school and became a painter. She wrote this great book called Old and Art School. We talked about Bruce Springsteen's father, who finally said the words that Bruce needed to hear. We've talked about

parents who turned things around later than they hope, but just in time to make an impact on their

kids. And these examples should inspire us. And more than that, they should remind us that it's not

too late for us either. It is never too late. It's not too late to lose the weight, to make a change, to start a new career, to quit a bad habit, to apologize, to mend relationships, to try something new, or to finally invest in yourself. We would never tell our kids that it's too late for them, that the best is behind them, that they can't recover or rebuild or begin again. No, we tell them the opposite. We say, look, it's not ideal

that you waited, but now's as good a time as any. It's the second best time, right? And we cheer

them on as they got moving. And so shouldn't we tell ourselves the same thing? Well, in the spirit of

it's never too late, we are breaking with a little bit of tradition over at Daily Stoic and reopening the New Year, New You challenge. We usually kick off the year with 21 days of Stoic-inspired challenges. And we heard from a bunch of people that came back from vacation later. They procrastinated. They changed their mind or they stumbled on their resolution. And, well, we wanted to say it's not too too late and so now you can still sign up for the daily stoic new year new you challenge you can

send a message to your kids message to yourself that uh it's not too late that you're still working on

yourself you're trying to get better you want to make changes and this is all inspired by stoic wisdom

so i would love to see you in there break Break out of the doom loop, cultivate gratitude, take charge of the year, focus more, develop confidence, find calmness and stillness in a crazy world. A bunch of great stuff in here. It is not too late to make 2026 your best year. Stop dreaming and, you know, be that person.

Well, you can sign up right now

at daily stoic.com slash challenge,

and I will see you in there.

We've got a bunch of awesome stuff.

I think you're really going to like it.

So sign up now at dailystoic.com slash challenge.

I'll see you in there.

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