Tomorrow Never Comes

Christina Wodtke nails the core question of focus: "What am I doing this week to get closer to our goals?" She calls it the tomorrow problem - "like my kid will do his homework tomorrow, and tomorrow never comes. It's always tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow."

Sound familiar? We'll start the new bedtime routine tomorrow. We'll be more patient tomorrow. We'll finally tackle the screen time conversation tomorrow.

The atomic unit of progress isn't the big plan. It's what you're doing THIS WEEK. Not someday. Not when things calm down. (Things never calm down. You know this.)

Pick one thing. The bedtime boundary you keep meaning to enforce. The morning routine that would make everyone's life easier. The conversation you've been avoiding.

What are you doing THIS WEEK to get closer to the parent you want to be? Because tomorrow is a beautiful fiction we tell ourselves while nothing changes.