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 power. Rich is how much you get to see your kids, we said recently. We were redefining wealth away from

material items and salary, although these things are nice as far as they go. And we were directing it

towards a thing that pretty much everyone wishes they had more of, time with the people you love

most. Is it really a rich life if you're missing out on something

so priceless? So perhaps it's also worth taking a minute to do something similar with power.

There are the obvious trappings of power, the corner office, the gatekeepers, the influence you

have over world events or an audience, the presidency, the title. But how many of these powerful

people are at the mercy of their busy schedule?

How much of their time is their own? We talked a while back about the one time Jimmy Carter lost his

temper at his chief of staff. It was overlearning that they had bumped an activity with his daughter

for some meeting. There you have the most powerful man in the world finding out that he was

impotent to connect with

his own family and that's a guy who was loved by and cared about his family how many powerful men

and women because of the decisions they've made the ambition they've been consumed by command no respect

at home at all they have no relationship to speak of with their own kids. How sad and weak is that?

So yes, it's great that you've climbed the corporate ladder.

It's great that you're in demand, that you're worth a lot of money.

But if you never see your family, if work is always pulling you away from your family,

then you are poor and you are not as powerful as you think.

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