A first-person spoken reflection emphasizing the speaker's deliberate daily routines (early wake, early bed, morning workouts) and prioritizing family time (having dinner and breakfast with kids). The speaker acknowledges imperfections and sacrifices—it was hard—but stresses intentionality and personal transformation required to achieve desired goals and maintain presence with family.
It's so important to me. Sitting down every night with my kids, having dinner. It's so important for me to do all my work and wake up in the morning and do all these things, and then to have breakfast with my kids in the morning. It's not perfect. It's not always exact. Sometimes the kids don't want to eat. Sometimes they get up late. Sometimes I, like, run. But I do these things on purpose. I wake up early. I go to bed early. I get my workout done before they're all up. I'm already ahead of the day. But again, I know what I want and who I had to become to get what I wanted. Truly wanted. Listen, it sucked. A lot of it. It was hard.
