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.

This is a gift you can give yourself and your family.

When you were younger for Christmas,

all you wanted was presents. Now that you're older, now that you have kids, all you want is presents. All you want is for your kids to be present over the holidays. Paul Orphalia, the founder of

Kinkos, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But when

asked about his wealth, he didn't talk about buying expensive stuff or building a great company

or taking exotic vacations. Instead, he told Noah Kagan in a recent interview, do you know what

success is? Success is when your children want to be with you when they're adults.

How many people have all that bullshit and their kids don't come home for the holidays? Come on.

Success, as we've talked about, is having a crowded table. At the end of your life, success as a parent

will be a family that comes together, that

spends time together, that wants to be around you. So here on Christmas and throughout this

holiday season, take some time to think about what it will take to have that. Think about the choices

now so they'll choose to fly from their homes to yours when they're older and have families of their

own think about the gifts you have to give them today your love your support your presence to receive the

gift of a crowded table in the future Merry Christmas everyone and it's a gift that I get to do

all of this with and for all of you.

And I just appreciate you all a great deal.

I'm going to go spend some time with my family.

And hopefully this message sings in with all of you today.

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