The Daily Dad

Your Future Is What You Make It

Mar 6, 2024

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The podcast discusses the importance of planning for the future, being a better parent, and making decisions that shape desired outcomes. It emphasizes personal growth, positive choices, strong relationships, self-improvement, and therapy in creating the envisioned future.

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Invest in your future self by making conscious decisions now to realize desired relationships and activities with family.

Address personal issues and seek therapy for self-improvement to enhance parenting abilities and emotional support for children.

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Investing in Your Future Self

As time passes quickly, it is essential to envision and invest in the future self you desire to be. Consider the activities you wish to engage in with your grown children and grandchildren, reflecting on the quality of relationships needed to support these interactions. Making conscious decisions now, such as maintaining health and fostering positive connections with family, paves the way for realizing these aspirations in the future.

Planning for the Future and Being a Better Parent

4min

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In his fantastic book Outlive, Peter Attia (we carry the book at The Painted Porch and did a fantastic 2-hour interview with him on the Daily Stoic podcast) looks at this idea literally and figuratively. Will you want to be able to go skiing with your adult children? Will you want to be able to travel to see your grandkids? Will you want to live long enough to maybe get to see them get married or bring you great-grandkids? Just as important as whether these things are physically possible is will you have the kind of relationship that allows for this? Will your kids want to do those things with you?

These are the questions you have to be thinking about. Not just thinking about, but making decisions and investments about and in. If you eat whatever you want, let your weight balloon, smoke, drink to excess—it doesn’t matter what dreams you have for your twilight years. You are making a powerful statement in reality about the actual value of those things to you. The same goes for how you balance work and life, whether you have put in the work on your issues, whether you’ve improved at repairing with your kids, whether you support and root for them or whether you judge and criticize them. Again, you can fantasize about family trips when you’re retired, but if, while you’re working, you’re a self-absorbed, miserable jerk—that’s never going to happen.

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