Becoming a Dad

On 10/17, I was lucky enough to become a Dad to a healthy baby girl.

For those that haven’t seen her yet, just check out my IG and you can see the baby spam there.

If I am being completely honest, entering this phase of life terrified me.

I am someone who likes consistency, routine, control, and for those of you reading this with kids, you’re probably laughing.. But newsflash for those who don’t… you lose all of these things in the newborn phase.

Naturally, there were times of doubt, fear, uncertainty… there were definitely “oh shit, this is really happening moments"... 

One thing I am certain of, and a belief I have adopted in life, business, and now parenthood… is that I have the capacity and skill to “figure it out”... and this might be one of my greatest assets.

Despite the requests of my wife, I didn’t read the baby books (I read some specific chapters that were related to navigating her birth experience), but as far as raising a kid… I was going in totally blind.

Not because I didn’t want to read them, but how many things in life do you truly get to experience? This seems to be one of them and I wanted to take advantage of that.

I bring this up because I think deep down we all want clarity, we all want certainty, we all want to know exactly how it’s going to play out…

But wouldn’t that be boring?

Why rob yourself of experiences simply because you are scared of them?

Alex Hormozi has a great quote… “The cost of your new life is your old one.”

Yes. Hell yes it is.

Every phase we turnover. Every opportunity we chase. The cost is the old one.

And you’re allowed to grieve those phases, I know I did. It took me a while to get here.

Yet when you’re faced with these opportunities in life I think you could approach them with hesitation, or I think you could see it as excitement.

How you view it will drastically change how you behave.

Some will continuously shy away and others will press one even when you have no clue where it will lead you.

I know I want to be in the latter group.

So here’s to a new chapter in life. Navigating parenthood, building a business, evolving in life…

But ultimately… just figuring it out.