The One Thing Missing From Your Relationships

Rob Dial (0:00)

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Once again, finish2026strong.com, and I'll see you live on the challenge. Today, I want to talk about a practice that might change every single relationship that you have. I want to share something that I've been doing recently, and I truly believe it's one of the most healing things that I've ever done for me, but also for my son as well. It takes like 10 minutes a week. All you need is your phone, and I'm going to show you exactly how to do it and how it changes depending on how old your kid is if you're talking to your kids, whether they're 2, whether they're 16, whether they're 45 I'm going to teach you how to use it. I'm going to show you exactly how I use it with my son, but this is an incredible tool to deepen any relationship that you actually want to deepen or heal a relationship that might be broken. So let's get into it, okay? So my son is growing really fast, like really, really fast. And every time I look at photos of him on my phone, I'm seeing a different child in front of me than I'm actually seeing in those photos. And every single week, I notice these little moments with my son, these little funny things that he does, these quirks that he has, something that he did, something that he said, something that he taught me without even knowing that he was teaching me something, something that he accidentally brought up within myself that I realized that I need to heal. And I wanted to capture these moments and I wanted to talk to him about, I want him to be an adult later on in life and I want him to really deeply know about his childhood, not just see some photos on my iPhone. And I also really want him to know how I feel about him because I feel like a lot of parents don't really tell their children how much they actually care for them. And so I tried journaling. I'd sit down with a pen and I would start writing things down but to be honest with you, my hand could not move fast enough. I would lose half of what I wanted to say to him before it actually got on the page. And then I realized, I was like, dude, I speak better than I write. That's literally my job. So one day, I was like, you know what? All I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna pick up my phone and I'm just gonna talk to my phone, I'm gonna hit record and I'm gonna talk to him. And I was talking directly to the camera like he was sitting right across from me. And now what I've actually decided to do is every single week, once a week, I sit down and I make a short video for my son and I save it into a very specific folder on my phone and then I just go about my day. And one day, I don't know when this day is gonna be, I'm gonna hand him over this giant collection of videos. His dad talking directly to him week after week after week of his entire life. And I'm gonna tell him things like he's the biggest blessing that I've ever had. I tell him things like how happy I am that his soul chose mine.