The Everyday Moments You Share With Your Children will be Worth More than a Gold

We just came back from a week at Disney and my kids looked forward to it for 12 months.

They probably thought about it every single day. It seems like they talked about it every single day.

Now it's over and it's a memory.

On our way back home my daughter asked if that very night we could go on a walk together. My daughter loves going on walks and she always asks me what we're going to talk about.

"You bet" I said and we went on a walk that night.

Disney was amazing but 20 years from now the thing I'll remember about my daughter is all the walks we went on. The conversations we had, how sometimes I held her in my arms... sometimes I carried her on my back, sometimes we ran, and she always wants to go further. She never wants it to end.

There are days when she wants to go on a walk and I'm in the middle of a project or a bill is due or I'm going through a problem and I struggle being present. I want to be completely there but my mind is elsewhere.

What helps is in that very moment shifting your perspective and viewing that moment from your daughter's perspective. Nothing in her life matters except being with her dad. When I'm 70 years old looking back on my life will I want to remember that I let a stress from a temporary situation take precedent over an infinite relationship?

Absolutely not. There are definitely moments in our life where times get very hard and we are tested to our limits. You absolutely can suffer in those moments and it's okay to not always be at your best. But what's important is to not get into a pattern of constantly letting daily stresses and obstacles cause you to become a person who is constantly stressed, anxious, and never present.

That's when you need to start building yourself every single day and implementing systems into your life so you can be more present and being stressed is not your default.

You can do it, just start building one brick at a time.

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