How has your pursuit of greatness in sport influenced your approach to parenting?

As a parent, I use my experience as an athlete to help me approach parenting. This includes understanding that when kids have temper tantrums they are usually either tired or hungry. I also lower expectations on my kids and manage my own ego. Additionally, it is important to remember that the journey matters more than the destination or outcome, so appreciating the little moments with your kids is important. Embrace the grind and make sure to take time for recovery in order to be a better parent.
 
Transcript: "Hey Josh, love this question mate. How is your pursuit of greatness and Sport influence your approach to Parenting? And I'm not gonna lie. I've gone to answer this one, a couple of times because it actually made me really have to stop and think about myself when I was an athlete and now focused on myself as a parent, and I've had to write down some notes. So, first off as an athlete, we understood that we were either. Tired or hungry, really affected our moods. And so when we look at our kids, when they having temper tantrums or they're not in good spirits. It's usually they're either hungry or they're tired that correlates directly to what being an athlete was. We're very moody if we're not well fed, or if we're not, well rested. So I brought that over to Parenting a couple of other things. Expectations. One thing as an athlete. I got very good at is managing those expectations of What the outcome will be and that definitely is correlated over to being probably a better parent is that I reduce and lower the expectations on my kids. And generally I'm a bit happier than that. I wasn't expecting so much from them managing your own ego. One thing I talk about on my podcast, a lot is the ability to have an ego because it can really drive you but learning how to manage that. So you're a better person to actually be around and I think I That with the parenting side of things with the kids is understanding my ego. And what I'm trying to achieve and their egos and what they're hoping to achieve and when we have the disputes quite often, it just comes down to who wants it more and they usually went out and letting go of my own ego. Another really big one is understanding that it's about the journey and the process far more than the outcome or the destination in sport. That was huge. You know, you Often have whether it's Olympics or World Championships or major events that you're looking at their major goals, but often it's the journey is the day-to-day process. That's where the real Joy comes from. And with parenting. That's the same thing. It's understanding. There's the day-to-day things. It's the little things where the joy is, it's sitting down to have breakfast is putting a little basketball hoop. Amo two-year-olds room and just shooting ball with him for a little bit. It's running on the beach with them every evening after dinner. It's it's not a Massive one off thing that you're trying to be, but just the little moments consistently and on that consistent basis. That said another keyword in sport and every major guest I've had on the podcast will share that. Probably the number one thing to success is just staying consistent. And for parenting, that's even when times are getting tough. The kids are pushing back on. You pretty hard. Just keep turning up. Just stay consistent. Keep turning up and Joy or Whatever you want to look at it, will come from that. And a bit on that consistency. One is embracing the grind. That the life is not meant to be easy. We went life is not meant to be easy. That to embrace the struggle embrace, the grind know that you've got it within you to be able to overcome any hurdles that you have. I think they're powerful tools that we can really think about. And finally, the last one, I'll That is grounding yourself in recovery. So with our athletes were very good at being able to focus on our recovery and rebuild to get going again. And as a parent, make sure you can find some downtime or go to the beach with them and ground yourself or walking or Forest whatever it is, but maybe even a little bit of time away from the kids will really help big answer mate, but it was a that's a quite a big question and I love it. Thanks. Cheers."