Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

This is costing you more than you know 👀

18 Nov 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube monologue (by Jacqueline Elliott) arguing that divided attention between work and family has real costs: thinking about kids while working reduces work effectiveness ("costing you a lot of money") and thinking about work while with kids steals time and presence. The speaker emphasizes the harm of being physically present but mentally elsewhere—appearing in pictures without truly remembering moments—and grounds this in personal experience.

You thinking about your kids while you're working is costing you a lot of money at work. And you thinking about work is costing your time with your kids. In a relationship where you can't be a hero to your kids because they don't see you, you can be in the pictures, but your mind is somewhere else. You can be smiling with that smile. There's nothing behind that smile. You'll look at the picture years later and you will not remember the moment. And I know that's already happened to you because it happened to us.