Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

You must find the stillness.

This change we've made, this decision to become dads, it has

uprooted everything. It's like we're hit suddenly with a crossfire hurricane. The house is a mess.

The schedule is grueling. There is never enough sleep, never enough time in the day.

Even the cool, quiet, dark is pierced by the shriek of a man who has stepped on a

pile of Legos, and that shriek is coming from your mouth. Yet to be good at our jobs, to be good at

this fatherhood thing, we need stillness, we need time to reflect, we need focus, we need calm to

restore and reboot us. Where will we find it? It won't be, as Seneca and Marcus Aurelius

remind us, in fleeing to the country or to the sea, it won't be those measly two weeks of

vacation or by cutting and running. No, we must find the stillness within the chaos. It might not

feel like these moments of quiet can exist with all the

crying babies or arguing teenagers, but they can. We must go within. We must find it early in the

morning before the house is awake. We must drink in those minutes after the kids are in bed,

really drink it in. Don't defer it in favor of Netflix.

We must take time with a journal.

We must enjoy that cute but preposterously slow.

Walk from the school to the car or from the car back into the house.

Soak up the garbage time.

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