Bold visions and a life of excellence starts at home! Whatever home is to you!
Whoever we surround ourself with plays a large role in our lives. We need bold visions for our families. Families are at the core of our purpose and what drives our actions most of the time.
Some of the best portrayals of families comes from some of the most famous television programs. It’s no wonder that we are drawn to these shows as they help us identify with our families and our world as we know it. When I was a child, Leave it to Beaver was on it’s way out, and we had some fun with Good Times, Roseanne and Murphy Brown. Now we get to enjoy Modern Family, which I have to say is fantastic. In all of these, no matter what the family looked like, they had fun together, encouraged each other, argued and experienced challenges and life itself together. The root of all of these was and is the LOVE that builds the bond that family represents.
My encouragement today is to be intentional about your family. It is so important to really build a strong family! What three things can you do today in order to be bold in setting priorities for your family? We must be courageous to tackle both the fun and the tough issues that can ease their way into our households. Here are my top three:
- Budgets – Teach my boys a bit more about real life finances
- Politics – My boys are 19 now. I should have talked about this a lot more at the dinner table or on the way to games. They are voting age and have a huge role in our country’s success. I need to be intentional about upping the game on deeper discussions.
- Fun – We have plenty of fun, but honestly we need to crank up the music more on a daily basis! Somehow between elementary school and now we have had far too few dance parties – HA!
(Thank you to the East Family for this fun photo!)
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