What's up, guys? I'm Jared Lopes, and you're listening to the Dad Tired podcast, where I'm helping

everyday families learn how to follow Jesus and everyday life.

How's it going, guys?

Hey, this weekend I had some friends over for dinner.

And the wife of my friend asked me, hey, like, what's your goal for dad tired?

What are you trying to accomplish with this whole dad tired stuff?

And the entrepreneur in me, like the business side of me, immediately wanted to come up with some fancy

answer and have like some five-year plan and state my mission statement, my purpose and our vision

and all of that good stuff. And to be honest, I just sat there for a minute and with a blank stare

on my face looking a little bit like an idiot um and i

realize like i don't have anything fancy this is a question that i've been asked quite a bit over

the last several months as dad tired has kind of taken off and really in many ways exploded like

with the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of guys who have um participated in what's going on at dad tired

um i get this question quite a bit like what what's the goal here like what are we trying to do

and uh you know i i just i'm i'm embarrassed a little bit to say like i i don't know i don't

i don't really know uh what like five months from now five years from now i don't have five year goals i don't know. I don't really know what like five months from now, five years from now.

I don't have five year goals.

I don't even have a goal for the end of this year, 2017.

Like business wise, organization wise.

I don't know.

I started this whole thing because I was a guy who felt like there were not

enough resources for me to turn to when I was in crisis as a man and as a husband. And I literally

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