First post – PapaBusy launches

(reading time:  a quickie)

Finally after a long time of hesitation, I am writing a blog for people like me:  fathers –or mothers- that are very busy but want to have more free time. I wanted to write it mainly for two reasons, the first being that I rally enjoy the exploration of ways to be better in general (for me and for the people I care about) ,  and the other reason is to have fun doing something  I enjoy (like learning about productivity), hopefully this will be enjoyable and usefull for you.

I´m in that group of people in their thirties that decided  to have kids before they get to their forties. 80% of my friends are actually in the group (or are hoping to be in the close future). So when we meet, instead of gathering by the pub, club, disco, bar or restaurant, we do it at somebody’s parents vacation house with garden by the mountain or the beach, so we can all enjoy -in a more flexible way- good food (normally made by us all) and drinks (fortunately we all can buy ‘good enough’ wine) while we chat, have a good laugh and peak at the kids playing with –or fighting for- piles of toys we bring for the occasion. One recurrent topic in our talks is the lack of time, so one of the aim for this blog is help you find more time where you think there was none (and that applies to most full time workers. So to start on the right foot, let me tell you what means being more productive in practical ways -for me and my own reality-:

• Work less with better outcome (and money –it may not give you happiness, but it sure helps-). The reasons are obvious, anyhow the main could be:
• Enjoy quality time with your family: with your partner,  or the lack of doing interesting things together –and I´m not talking about going to a new supermarket- could turn the relationship into just a ‘parenting and family project’ together, and we all get tired of projects at some point. With your kids, for whom quality time does make a huge difference for their life and well being –and with whom you don’t want to have just memories of changing dippers and teaching them discipline-.
• Do all that stuff for which there is never time.  You know what they are, the ones you need to have peace and joy.
• Do exercise frequently. To burn stress and keep healthy (b.s.!, what we really want is to loose those extra pounds and become fit like Brad Pit or Carmen Elektra –respectively for papis and mamacitas-, but that is too much to ask for, so getting some level of fitness, looking better and having others to notice, its enough).

So in the next posts I’ll explore the best ways to achieve the above –and get better in whatever aspects that comes to my attention –so tell me by writing a comment-. I’ve to go now as I have things to do and for sure you too, see in the next post.