ITL131:The Benefits of a Family Mission Statement
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode I discuss why your family needs a mission statement and how my family created ours.
I’ve never seen a successful company that didn’t have a mission statement.
- I found out that a friend of mine, Sandy Stimpson, has a family mission statement for his family.
- He suggested that we make our own.
Polly, the boys, and I sat down and decided…
- What is important?
- Where do we want to go?
- What is the best?
- What result are we after?
- How do we act?
Over the course of several weeks we formed the mission statement, and it is now framed.
- We keep it in the front of our house where we can see it all day long.
- It makes life more intentional for Polly and me, but it is also transforming how our boys think.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, it is, again, |
| 0:19.6 | my pleasure to be sitting here with you. How are things going |
| 0:22.3 | with you today? Good, buddy. I am excited to be here with you as well. I always love this. I love doing |
| 0:29.5 | the podcast. You know, I've said this before, but this is one of the very few things that I do that's |
| 0:35.6 | not really prepared at all. |
| 0:37.7 | Right. |
| 0:38.3 | And so I love the questions from people. |
| 0:41.3 | I love the topics because we're really thinking on our feet. |
| 0:45.1 | And I think that's a lot of what life is. |
| 0:48.0 | So I really want to create value in what I do. |
| 0:51.0 | And I think the podcast has a certain amount of value because we're all able to think on |
| 0:57.1 | our feet and we're trying to think to good results. We're trying to think, how do I explain this? |
| 1:02.4 | How do I make this worthwhile? So absolutely. Well, and we are definitely not scripted today. And I |
| 1:08.1 | can tell you that with, with 100% certainty, because today's question comes from me. I'm the only one that's heard it. So, or at least, you know, maybe you've heard this before, but I thought it up, so I thought we'd run with it. And we'll see, see what the response is. This is a personal question. You know, you know my wife, Stephanie. Sure. We've been married for seven and a half years. |
| 1:29.6 | Love Stephanie. Just over seven years. |
| 1:30.9 | Tolerate you. Love Stephanie. |
| 1:32.9 | It's a package deal. You got to accept it. Yeah. |
| 1:36.0 | So Stephanie and I are always, in the past, we've heard and listened to you about seeking wisdom and continuing to try to better yourselves, better your |
| 1:47.1 | marriage, better your life, continuing to strive for more. So in doing that, I don't know if you |
| 1:52.1 | know this or not, but in addition to both of our parents, Stephanie and I watch other successful |
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