I work in sales and the pressure never stops. I come home and I'm so wound up that I snap at the kids over nothing. My 7 year old asked me to play catch and I told him I didn't have time. Then I sat on the couch scrolling my phone for an hour. I'm being the worst version of myself and my family is paying the price. How do you guys actually turn it off?
Sales pressure is brutal man, I get it. One thing that's helped me is putting on a white noise playlist the second I walk in the door for like 10 minutes before jumping into dad mode. Gives your brain a chance to downshift before you're with the kids.
Three kids here and I've been there with that wound up feeling. What helped me was realizing my kids don't care about my day or the sales numbers. They just want dad present. Even a rough 20 minutes of cat game is better than perfect time thinking about work.
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That's the hardest part about sales - you can't just leave it at the office. Your 7 year old wanting to play cat is actually the gift, even if it doesn't feel like it in the moment. Those snaps happen to all of us, just keep trying to reset.