"a full-time job, spends a couple of nights a week at your kids’ practices, loses an entire weekend here and there to gymnastics competitions, is managing a side hustle or two, serves on the board of two organizations and acts as the treasurer for another, and still manages to check everything off your list, then you’re in my demographic."
I'm assuming this description is essentially to you. If it is, you seem to be doing a lot already. Maybe the problem isn't how much your doing. Maybe the problem is your comparing yourself to other people. ("When I look around, it seems like some people are getting 10x more shit done than I am.")
And which stupid parent gets their child a fitness tracker?
100% empathetic to your alarm re the kid and the fitness tracker. And I am definitely your demographic re family, work busyness and the time management question, but not a guy with answers. Let me know when you find somebody who has mastered it. The only hack I've found so far is love. When it's there with my family/kids I somehow feel more capable and relaxed about managing the rest. And I know you already have that "hack" covered.
"a full-time job, spends a couple of nights a week at your kids’ practices, loses an entire weekend here and there to gymnastics competitions, is managing a side hustle or two, serves on the board of two organizations and acts as the treasurer for another, and still manages to check everything off your list, then you’re in my demographic."
I'm assuming this description is essentially to you. If it is, you seem to be doing a lot already. Maybe the problem isn't how much your doing. Maybe the problem is your comparing yourself to other people. ("When I look around, it seems like some people are getting 10x more shit done than I am.")
And which stupid parent gets their child a fitness tracker?
Great newsletter, Randy. The Tolkien quote is gold. Love the photography at the end!
Glad you're writing again!
100% empathetic to your alarm re the kid and the fitness tracker. And I am definitely your demographic re family, work busyness and the time management question, but not a guy with answers. Let me know when you find somebody who has mastered it. The only hack I've found so far is love. When it's there with my family/kids I somehow feel more capable and relaxed about managing the rest. And I know you already have that "hack" covered.