You can't make hard decisions in the short to medium term when you don't have a long-term vision.

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What's up guys? Another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood. Welcome back. Today we are chatting

about kind of our biggest theme we always talk about on family teams, but in a specific way. And that is how to improve your vision for your family team. So it's deeply, deeply important. I don't think people give a lot of thought about. And that's that. That's having a vision, but then how to improve it, how to think about it. So yeah, Jeremy, what would you say to that? Yeah, guys. So if you are just trying to

build your team and you cannot see the future, you don't know where you're headed, or it's a very

low resolution, very fuzzy picture, it's going to be very difficult for you to aim at that. Stanley

Howard wasse, one of the, uh, me and Jeff's favorite theologians. He said, we can only act within the world we can envision.

We can only act within the world that we can envision.

So the question is, how do you dial up the resolution on the vision for your family team?

And so one basic way to do that is to take some time and do like a writing assignment. So you want to

like think about 10 years into the future. What do you want to see your family look like? How are

they interacting with each other? What are the sibling relationships like? What are you guys doing for work? What are your rhythms look like? What is your, does your marriage look like? What are all the kind of missional elements

of your family looking like? Even write down things like the ages of your kids. Try to dial up

that resolution as much as possible. And as you guys do that, that is vision. The basic idea

vision is seeing into the future, being able to see that ideal future so that you have something to aim at. And the point is, you guys, not that you're going to hit it perfectly, not that life's going to go exactly what you planned. The point is that you can't make hard decisions in the short to medium term when you don't have a long term vision. And one of the other sort of tips for how to think about this is I'm totally obsessed with movies

that I feel like help me get a glimpse for what life might look like, you know, into the future.

And usually I'm not looking for movies that give me a perfect snapshot of my family in 10 years, right?

I'm just looking for glimpses.

And like if you look at a movie like Fiddler on the

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