Our 720th Dad in the Limelight is fitness professional and dad, Kris Zabish. I want to thank Kris Zabish for being a part of this series. It has been great getting connected with him and now sharing him with all of you.
1) Tell me about yourself, (as well as how you are in the limelight for my readers knowledge)
My name is Kris Zabish. I am a Fitness Professional and my wife and I run Zabish.fit. We love working together and working from home has been one of the best things that I could have done for myself and my family. I get so much more time with my son AJ and we have definitely grown closer.
2) Tell me about your family
I am a husband to an amazing women, Jennifer Zabish and father to and incredible son, AJ. Jenn and I have been married for about 8 years and we had our miracle baby boy about 3 years you. You see, Jenn suffers from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (POCS), a condition that makes it very difficult to have kids. When we got married we both accepted it wasnt in the cards for us to have kids and to be honest I never had the desire to have any.
Then Jenn went on a mission to lose weight, dropping over 60 lbs, becoming a NASM CPT and training to run her first marathon something funny happened. She walked up to me with tears in her eyes and said we were going to have a baby.
It was the best thing that has ever happened to us. We were just surviving life and not really living to our full potential. Once I realized we were going to have a son, I knew I had to set a better example in life. We have been making huge changing and both growing as people ever since.
3) What has been the largest challenge you have had in being a father?
Finding balance. Of course parents talk about how much time a child takes to raise but you never really know just how much until you do it. Finding time for my wife and still advancing my business, education and physical abilities has been very challenging.
Just as Arnold says “Reps, Reps, Reps!”. Just keeping doing it and things get easier and you get stronger.
4) What advice would you give to other fathers?
Patience is KING! We all know kids do exactly what we do. So when we lose our temper guess what they will do x10! However when we really invest in our self awareness, take a deep breath any time we start to get frustrated and take just a few extra moments to help our child understand the situation, the reaction is immeasurable.
5) How have you come to balance parenthood and outside life?
For me I am just so thankful for my wife. She is a life saver. We work so well together and are able to help each other whenever needed. She is a live by the schedule kind of person and that really helps me make time for things that are important to me outside of our family because family always is and always will be number 1.
6) What have you learned from the fathers that you have interacted with?
I have learned there is nothing like a father son bond. I have learned instead of telling them what to do, show them. I have learned to lead my example or what we call Roof Top Leadership (Scott Mann). I have learned that love is not a weakness but a strength that can make anything possible.
7) What else would you share regarding your experiences as a father thus far?
We all know how fast life flies by. Taking the time to live in the moment and make a few extra memories has helped me hold on to my little boy just a little longer. Make him smile, make him laugh and be present when he needs my attention.
8) What have been the most memorable experiences that you have had thus far as a parent?
One sticks out for sure. I have been working on a lot of personal development and one of my challenges was working on my spiritual side. So I started simple, and asked myself what make my soul happy? I smiled as my son ran by my in his new shoes laughing as he said “I run real fast!”. I knew it was his laughter that made my soul happy.
So I set a goal for the month of September to make him laugh for 30 mins everyday. It wouldn’t matter if it was 11pm at night or 3am in the morning. If he started to laugh I would do whatever I could to compound it and make him laugh even harder and longer.
I did not reach my goal because there was 2 days that I did not get home in time to see him but I learned so much that month. I learned how much I shut down his laughing because we had to get out the door, or eat dinner, or take a bath, or get to bed. I also learned that just taking 2 extra minutes to keep him laughing put him in such a better mood and that in 99% of the situations it wouldn’t last more than 5 minutes.
So take the extra time to do the things your child wants to do. It wont last forever, it probably wont even last 10 minutes but there happiness will last much much longer.
Learn more about Kris Zadish
You can follow Jenn, AJ and Kris Zadish on their facebook page. www.facebook.com/zabish.fit and please check out their website at www.Zabish.fit
If you have any questions for Kris Zabish, please leave a comment here and I will make sure that he gets them so that he may be able to respond!
——————————————————————————————-
New to the Divadom?
Please Subscribe to my RSS Feed! Subscribe in a reader
Questions?Drop me a line at dadofdivas@gmail.com
The post Dads in the Limelight – Fitness Professional and Dad, Kris Zadish appeared first on Dad of Divas.