Nobody lies on their deathbed wishing they’d taken more calls.
You’ve heard that. Everyone has. And yet…
Monday morning comes, the phone lights up..
and the call gets taken. Again.
Because knowing something and living it are completely different skillsets.
If they weren’t, therapists would be out of a job
and LinkedIn would be a much quieter place 😆
The hard truth I had to sit with
(and still have to sit with sometimes)
Is that good intentions are completely invisible to your family.
Your kids don’t experience your intentions.
They experience whether you showed up or you didn’t.
They experience whether the phone was on the table, in your pocket, or in another room.
They experience whether you remembered what they told you last Tuesday.
I once nodded through an entire conversation with my daughter Leyla, made what I thought were encouraging sounds at the right moments, and then she stopped and said:
“Dad. What did I just say?”
I had…..absolutely….nothing.
The gap between the father you intend to be and the father you actually are on a random Wednesday at 6pm, that’s the only gap worth closing.
How wide is yours right now?
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