What would bubble dad do?

And how is he really this smart?

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Today at the library there was a dad.

He had an afro and what seemed to be two little tiny twin toddlers.

He was sat outside, with a charcuterie board of sorts,

So zen. So chill.

Quite an extravagant set up for two toddlers I thought.

Meats, crackers, cheeses.

He didn’t care what I thought,

obviously.

I admired his commitment as I glanced at the half squished banana in the bottom of my pram.

He was there.

Sitting.

Snacking,

yet serving every single child in that library without doing a thing.

How?

Well, he was in his zone of chill with his girls… but his strategy of service was to prop up a bubble machine on top of his double stroller.

His girls didn’t seem that interested.

“Classic dad, always up to tomfoolery like this”.

The other kids,

losing their goddam mind for these bubbles.

My sons included.

Bubble dad, calmly in his own world. Not even glancing up at all the slightly disheveled mothers metaphorically bowing down to his foresight.

This.

was leverage.

This,

was genius.

This - Staying in his own lane, present with his values, being with his girls.

While also making an impact, creating a beautiful day for others.

The bubbles were working for him.

This.

So simple.

When everyone else is out there attempting to change the world -

He was only interested in changing the lives of those in the backyard of the library.

He doesn’t know I’m about to send his morning antics to 4000 people on Substack.

He doesn’t know there’s about to be 4000 people thinking “What would bubble dad do” by the end of this article. All because of him. Just showing up in what was real and honest for him.

The bubble dad.

I thanked him for his community service.

Truly. I was grateful. It meant my boys were excited and occupied for an extra 15 minutes. It meant I could get back to changing the world through my DM’s (oh, how ambitious).

It had me really thinking about how often we get pulled into how it should be done.

How creativity should be expressed.

How music should be made.

How branding should be niched.

How marketing should be 3 second viral reels.

How you should be on social media.

How parenting should be way more disheveled than charcuterie boards for toddlers.

How you should do it all yourself.

How you “should” read books at a library rather than feast and bubbles.

How you “should” change the world with doing rather than changing the world through presence.

Whenever you get caught up in the should…

Come back to yourself.

YOU have your own internal map that expresses your energy the best, most effectively AND in the most nourishing way.

Only you can figure it out.

Every tom dick and harry will have a strategy for impact of you.

It won’t work.

Not long term.

Not sustainably.

Not without burnout, or sacrificing your family lifestyle values.

Unless

You come home to yourself.

Unpack your conditioning around how things should be done so that you can liberate yourself and your creativity.

Understand your blueprints, tendencies, patterns of action and withdrawal, how you bring things to life.

From now on, whenever I get too caught up in the heady “Should” of life, business, creativity and motherhood.

I’ll come back to

“What would bubble dad do?”

Sit. Enjoy. Set up a structure to work and be impactful while he’s being present. Leveraging his time and values.

Genius.

Be like bubble dad.

Love Kat.

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