There's five key ingredients that help me remain both driven and parent. They're my own five P's (how convenient!):
Purpose - Patience - Presence - Productivity - Persistence
PURPOSE:
Not only find what you're here on earth to do, but realize that by pursuing it you become a purposeful role model for your kids.
PATIENCE:
Any great thing takes time to build. The same goes for a great family. So as parents we need to double the patience.
PRESENCE:
Whatever our parenting style, from authoritarian to permissive, nothing is more enriching for our relationships than to be fully present with our loved ones.
PRODUCTIVITY:
Because a parent's time is scarce, and we still have work to do, we need to make the most of the few free hours we have left.
PERSISTENCE:
There will always be hardships along the way, and grit and mental toughness are great tools to help us push through.
Those are my top five. Can you relate to any of them? Any other come to mind?