We intuitively know this. Ask anyone you meet, and you’ll find the same result that I do when I speak to people in workshops around the world: the vast majority of people admit they don't spend enough quality time with their family, especially their children.
But why? After all, almost everyone would agree that their children are their top priority. Why don’t we put in more of that essential ingredient of quality time?
To be clear, it isn’t for lack of good intention. We all have great plans to spend quality time with family. But consider this: if you relied only on good intentions to do your job or build your business each day, how would you be doing? Probably not so well. Succeeding in your home life, like your professional life, requires more than just intention—it requires execution. And that means intending to spend quality time with your kids isn’t the same as actually doing it.
What’s stopping us?
Part of the reason we aren’t giving our kids the quality time they need is that we think we already are. Yes, there are those parents who simply don't spend any time with their children, but I’ve found it's far more common for parents to put in low-quality time and mistake it for something else.
Much of this is due to changes in the world of work. You may, for example, be thinking any of the following: