This Must Come First
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
"Trevor Ariza chose family over basketball. He chose his son—a month with him—over $1.8 million dollars in salary. He made the right choice, although it couldn’t have been an easy one. This year’s NBA season has already been cut short. Who knows what the future of sports will hold?
But for Trevor, in the middle of a custody battle over his 12-year-old son, decided that this one-month, court-appointed visitation window was the most important thing."
Ryan describes how you should prioritize your family in today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.3 | Trevor Arisa chose his family over basketball. |
| 0:36.9 | He chose his son, a month with him, over $1.8 million in salary. He made the right choice, although it couldn't have been an easy one. This year's NBA season has already been cut short. Who knows what the future of sports will hold? But for Trevor, in the middle of a custody battle over |
| 0:55.8 | his 12-year-old son, decided that this one-month court-appointed visitation window was the most |
| 1:02.1 | important thing. So he passed on an opportunity to play, turned down a large amount of money, |
| 1:07.6 | broke the news to his teammates, and put his family first. This is the same choice |
| 1:12.8 | that Daniel Hudson made when the pitcher missed a National League championship game so that he could |
| 1:17.8 | be there for the birth of his daughter. It was a beautiful decision and yet like Trevor's was not |
| 1:23.0 | without its detractors. The media and the press laid into him. You can imagine some of his peers were baffled, |
| 1:29.9 | even if they didn't say anything. But thankfully, one of his teammates understood and expressed |
| 1:35.0 | what our job is people as coworkers, as fathers is perfectly. If your reaction to someone |
| 1:40.9 | having a baby is anything other than congratulations. I hope everybody's healthy. |
| 1:46.3 | You're an asshole, Sean Doolittle said. As important as our careers are to us as players, |
| 1:51.7 | he said, nothing is more important to us than our families. Our careers will end someday, |
| 1:57.6 | but family is forever. Your job is important. Your hobbies are important. Your hopes and dreams are important, but family is forever. Your job is important. Your hobbies are important. Your hopes and |
| 2:02.7 | dreams are important, but family is forever. It must come first. And thou shall put thy family first |
| 2:09.5 | is one of the Ten Commandments of being a great parent. And we'd love to have you follow along |
| 2:13.8 | with us in our challenge, the Stoic Parent. You can check that out at daily stoic.com slash parent. |
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