Family Papi

[Translate]

---

In order to answer that question, you need to know what you love to do.  If you know it, do it, and actually get paid for it – you’re in great shape.

Problem is, many family dads don’t know and therefore they don’t do.

Knowing comes first

As a family dad, if you find yourself in a situation where you don’t love what you do – that is your work, career, or day job – you have to do something.

Preferably, you have to get out of that and into a good place.

But what is the first step?

The first thing you need to do is figure out what it is you want to do.

Ask yourself the following three questions:

• If you had all the money in the world, what would you do?
• What are your natural strengths & abilities?
• What is it that people around you always compliment you on?

This is the point: you must find a job /career / business that will so completely fascinate you, it’ll be easy to throw your whole strength & focus into it and therefore increasingly prosper because of it.

The choices you have in terms of occupation are limitless, and that makes it sometimes hard to decide.

But you need to understand that only you can do this. 

Once you answered the previous three questions, the second step would be to research. 

This could be in the form of surfing the Internet, taking trips to the library or bookstore, and finding out who or what organizations can help.

This will mean sacrifice – what are you doing in your days off? 

I’m not saying to completely stop having quality or fun time, that’s very important.  But make a decision today that you will take at least a few hours every week to invest in knowing what you want to do.

Give yourself the amount of time necessary, don’t make a hasty decision.  While continuing your research, gain feedback from others, pray about it, visualize it, ask, write down some pros and cons, you name it.

Once you narrowed your choices to two or maybe the one, celebrate.

Yes, celebrate – you have accomplished something very few get to even identify – their purpose.

Now get ready to make it happen.

Popularity: 12% [?]

[Translate]

---

As a family dad, there are certain times in your life where you must make critical decisions.  These decisions will impact the quality of your life as well as the lives of those in your organization (yes your family).

If you find yourself in one of those situations now, one simple solution can help you make sure you continue on your prosperous path.

Turn it off!

If you think about it, from the time you wake in the morning until the time you actually get back to sleep, you are inundated with noise. 

This noise comes in the form of the things we enjoy – radio, ipod, TV, internet – basically, everything that entertains, informs, or just zones us out.

How can we make the right decision if we are constantly being bombarded?

How can we ensure our decisions will be correct for our family and for our community?

The answer for both is that we cannot unless we turn it all off.

Here are some things to do to make it happen:

Mark the time you’ll need.  I suggest anywhere between 2 days and a week’s time.  Frankly, if this is the first time you’re doing this, aim for the 2 days because you will not be accustomed to the quiet.  If you could do more days, great, but set your expectations low to start off with.

The only noise you may have is from the alarm clock to wake you.  When you wake up, be thankful and start getting ready for the day. 

Don’t turn on the radio or TV.  Negative news will always be there – it can wait a few days.

Embrace the quiet.

Hear yourself thinking.  Allow yourself to envision the solution.  Pray – ask God to help you identify His Will to make the correct decision.

Continue to do this as you drive to your destinations.  If you can, take off from your regular schedule (this is not a must though).

A must is to just listen – at work, in the gym, in the park, everywhere you go.

When you get back home, make a point to stay away from “the box” (TV) and from going online.

Instead, continue in the quiet.  Read, meditate, ask, pray.  Do what your gut tells you.

In the process, you’ll notice things you haven’t noticed before.

You’ll feel refreshed, even inspired.

You will gain new perspectives, see things in a new light – you may start getting ideas and insights. You may even get to feel God nudging you. 

You actually may start to like it so much that you decide to do this more often – like every 3 months.

That’s what happened to me.

You see, important decisions will always need to be made, but a family dad who chooses to listen in the quiet will always be one step ahead on the road to prosperity.

Popularity: 8% [?]

[Translate]

---

As the CEO of your family, you have the responsibility of not only guiding your family in the right direction, you need to set the right vision of where you’re headed.

As you know, you don’t just get into a cab and say drive – you give a destination.  Same concept applies for your family.

What are the financial goals for your family for this year, 5 years from now?

What do you expect your family to accomplish within those years?

What are the educational expectations you have set for your kids?

What kinds of relationships should you and your family invest in?

Are you appropriately communicating these goals and how are you monitoring them?

These are just some of a few questions you need to ask.  We will dive into each of these questions and more in the future.

In the meantime, a very important action you can do now is to actually visualize what hasn’t happened yet.  Each day would probably be impossible, but at least once a week, take time out to actually think and visualize. 

Visualize what you and your family will be doing, say 5 years from now. 

Where would you live?  What would you have?  How would the kids be doing in school?  How will your job or business be like?  Make a point to stay positive – to see it the way you want to see it.

The secret is that what you visualize intensely eventually becomes reality. 

So watch out because it works whether you visualize positive or negative circumstances.

As a family dad, visualizing you and your family prosper is as important as any other task you have.

Popularity: 85% [?]