What i like about these goals, mate, is they’re being goals. They’re about who you want to be and how you want to be with your kids. Rather than just setting some kind of KPIs you have to adhere to.

What I’m also finding helpful is taking a goal that I’ve never seemed to get traction on and then taking it back a step, back a step until I find an action or thought that is the missing ingredient. So for instance, I’d had a goal for years to not eat after 8 pm. Never complied with it. Until someone gave me the idea to brush my teeth immediately after dinner, not before bed. After I’d done that I didn’t want to get my teeth dirty so I’d not eat until breakfast.

In respect to goals like these, be more attentive for me a few years ago became “take off your worker/business-owner hat and put on your dad-hat from 5-8 pm every night.” It took care of the distractedness and focussed me…

Good post, Bad Dad. Not so bad. :)