Episode 12 - Six Hard Learned Lessons From a First Time Father
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"Whether you're a parent or not, I share six really important lessons I learned the hard way being a first time father." http://www.mmtpodcast.com/
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Episode 12 - Six Hard Learned Lessons From a First Time Father
- 1. SIX HARD LEARNED LESSONS FROM A FIRST TIME FATHER JAYSON GAIGNARD
- 2. ! IT’S IMPORTANT TO MAINTAIN The Perception of Control As a new parent, you need to get control over something, no matter how small it is. It could be getting control of your health, your relationship, or your work schedule etc.
- 3. Presence is everything. If you want to radically change your behaviour, you must first radically change your environment.
- 4. SECOND Don’t raise your kids how your parents raised you. They were raised in a different time.
- 5. THIRD Observe… ! Sit back and watch, don’t be quick to correct. Let them discover life through their senses not your own.
- 6. ! One of the most powerful gifts I can give my daughter, is to reinforce her positive response to an unfavourable event.
- 7. ! “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” –VIKTOR FRANKL
- 8. FOURTH Know your role. Dating is easy. Marriage is hard. And parenting just adds a whole new layer of complexity.
- 9. FIFTH Your calendar is a refection of your values Where you allocate your time lies your deepest desires.
- 10. SIXTH As an adult you’re a product of your decisions. However, a child is a product of their environment
- 11. “No written word, no spoken plea can teach our youth what they should be. Nor all the books on all the shelves, it’s what the teachers are themselves.” –ANONYMOUS
- 12. PROXIMITY IS POWER I know that what I eat, what I tolerate, what I accept and, the standards that I set, will become the software that my daughter will operate from.
- 13. Lead by example. At the end of the day, you aren’t just raising your children. You’re raising your grandchildren as well.
- 14. Parenting isn’t easy. Your child will test your character and develop it at it’s outward edge.
- 15. With that said… nothing will bring you more depth than being a parent.
- 16. TAKE IT SERIOUSLY THE STAKES ARE HIGH
- 17. To listen to this episode visit: HTTP://WWW.MMTPODCAST.COM/12/