Tuesday Mar 12, 2024

111. Change Your Priorities and Lead by Example

“No feeling compares to what it feels like to see your child being born.”

Dr. Andrew Fix joins us on this solo episode of The Code to talk about priorities, as his have just made a tectonic shift: he and his wife just welcomed their first child, a baby boy. Instantly, he and his wife recognized how all-consuming the love—and responsibility—of having a child is, to the exclusion of almost everything. Yet, it’s important to maintain your priorities, particularly the ones that maintain health and fitness. Doing so allows you to maintain the energy it takes to give your kids your all, but also because you need to set the best example for that child.

There’s a lot contending for your focus, time and energy. The physical exhaustion, the demands of children, the lack of motivation and time. In America, in particular, there is already such an emphasis on work, and that alone leaves little room for much else. Still, both good and bad behavior are a matter of forming habits, and Dr. Fix unpacks what that looks like when you’re faced with a whole new reality.

You and/or your partner will be your child’s first hero. Now is the time to lock in place the habits that will begin to set the best leadership example for them.

Quotes

• “I’ve played sports my whole life. I’ve had significant, traumatic emotional things happen in my family, and none of these feelings compare to what it feels like to see your child, your son, being born and going through this transition of becoming a parent, taking care of this tiny little infant.” (01:49 | Dr. Andrew Fix)

• “You have a child, they become your main focus, they become the most important thing in your life immediately. Their comfort and their happiness is more important than yours.” (03:02 | Dr. Andrew Fix)

• “We’ll call it a habit. People make habits of exercising, of eating a certain way. Well, we also form habits the other way. We form habits of watching Netflix, of taking naps instead of going to the gym, of answering that last email instead of going for a walk when it’s beautiful outside because we’ve just got to get stuff done.” (07:02 | Dr. Andrew Fix)

• “Who is the example, who is the person—or multiple people—that that kid is going to look up to? It’s me and her. It’s us.” (08:32 | Dr. Andrew Fix)

• “As your circumstances in life change, your priorities shift.” (11:01 | Dr. Andrew Fix)

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