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 would tell them this, so tell yourself too. It's hard to

imagine any situation that you would describe your kid as hopeless,

that sorry, it's too late for them. If they were falling behind their peers in math, you'd tell

them that it was just a matter of work. If they were trying to write themselves off as a baseball

player, you'd tell them about how many athletes were late bloomers, that they are still so young

that the next year they can come back stronger and better.

If they had failed out of college or gotten mixed up with drugs, you'd tell them how they still

had their whole lives ahead of them, that they could still fix this, that they can still turn

things around. And you wouldn't just be saying this, you'd mean it, because it's true.

Nothing is fixed in this life. You haven't fixed yourself. Nothing is

permanent, especially when the person deep down is good and decent, full of potential. So why are you

whispering the opposite of this to yourself, telling yourself that you've just got to accept that

your dreams are done, telling yourself that I used to be in good shape, but that's in the past.

Telling yourself that you're a crappy spouse.

Maybe even that you screwed things up with your kids and it can never be made right.

No, it's never too late.

You still have so much time in front of you, so much agency, so much ability, so much potential to fulfill.

You can fix the position you fixed yourself in,

and it's up to you. You decide the rest of the story. And this is the important part. The story

you tell yourself is going to determine what kind of stories your kids believe. Your story is the

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