But I think treat your home, like a business treats their schedule, right? So that we kind of do the week with that.

We kind of, I would say, where we kind of like look through the week. We kind of, you know, whether it's a Monday meeting or Sunday meeting.

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What's up, guys? Welcome to another Five Minute Fatherhood. So we've noticed that a lot of times when people embrace building a multi-generational team on mission, they begin to bring home a lot of traditional business tools. And so I want to go back and forth to Jeff and talk about what are some tools that maybe you learned in business or trying to do things productively outside of the home that you brought into the home.

And a lot of this is because, guys, people oftentimes really want to create a separation.

Sometimes that's really healthy between, you know, their work life and their home life.

But one of the things we're really encouraging guys to do is make your house a productive center of missional activity. And to do that, you need to begin to bring some of these productivity tools into the home. And so I'm going to start with the first one. The first one, one of my favorites is whiteboards. So we got whiteboards all over the house. We've got systems on whiteboards and different places in the house. When we have family meetings, we use whiteboards. And so this is one of the things that I just started to embrace. There's probably at least how many you think, tell us 20 whiteboards in our house. And so this one comes with a dad joked. If your kids, if you start putting whiteboards all over the house and your kids start wondering like, oh my gosh, why does dad love whiteboards so much you say? Because I think they're remarkable. And that will make them grown and love your whiteboards. But Jeff, what's your first one? That's good. That's good. No, I agree. And I think this is so important. And the one thing I would say, too, is why this is important is like there's there's not much difference at the level of organizational, right? Like a healthy business is a healthy organization and healthy family is a healthy organization. And so there's a lot of things that are parallel. Mine's really simple going back to almost 1990s business, but email, right? I think one of us, the thing that's been really helpful to me and Alyssa is we use email for a lot of our communication. Of course, you can do text at some level and of course you can do face to face, but I list specifically with our conflict styles and specifically with our communication styles, we've noticed that doing more serious type things on email, for example, the way that usually plays out is Alyssa has to process and think on something for a while. And she doesn't like doing those in the middle of a conversation like I do. So she'll email that to me and know that

she'll usually have a day or two for me to read it and see it and kind of give her some space and distance from it while she's still processed. It's just this perfect little separation. And then we also use it for a lot of practical stuff for to-dos. So like if like I kind of use my email as my to-do list,

so I tell her like, hey, if you want anything done in there, you got to put it in there, right?

If you want me to pay someone back. stuff for to-do. So like if like I kind of use my email as my to-do list, so I tell her like,

hey, if you want anything done in there, you got to put it in there, right? If you want me to pay

someone back on Venmo, because I do all the Venmo. So if you want me to do this, you want to pick this up at Home Depot, like it's got to go on email. And that's just a weird one, but that's, it's really, really worked for us. That's what I'd say. I love that one. Yeah, April and I email each

other all the time because we batch. Oftentimes we're sitting right next to each other,

emailing each other for the same reason. We're just because we're trying to batch our to-do lists to become more productive. And so we've done that a lot. Okay, the third one is this one we just started the last few weeks. And this is maybe for older families. And that is that we've set all of our kids and me and April up on Slack.

So if you guys use Slack, we use it a tonne at work. We use it for family teams. And so we created

an entire Slack. We geeked out on it. And it's all based around Star Trek. So every single one of

the channels is based on different room in the enterprise. And we're all different characters. We're all in there like planning things and like talking about like where we're going. That's the transporter room or vacations, things at the holodeck. Anything that's really central to the house is on the bridge. And I get to be John Luke Picard, but with hair. So that's awesome. That's what we kind of have fun with. But we just

been getting really into that. And it's been a super, I think, fun way for us to be interacting,

telling jokes, sharing things with each other, much more real time on something like Slack.

Yeah, Slack set itself up really, really well to be like a short burst, kind of active,

live communication tool while also

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