For today's real story, I want to talk to you about family, yours and mine.

I know and feel that as parents, you and I share some very important priorities.

Just like you, I love my family more than anything in this world, and I want us all to be safe,

healthy, happy, and prosperous in everything we do both within our family and as we go out

into the world.

Cynics will tell you that in our fast-paced society, family is becoming obsolete, that it is

just an old-fashioned lost concept, getting buried in a busy world of enlightened people.

Buried in a world overtaken by smartphones,

social media, and outside voices.

I'm here to tell you that that is not right, not even close.

Family is even more important today than in generations past, and its erosion is unacceptable.

This is a fight we can and must win.

This is a fight we will win if we just do our homework and plug in.

I intend to focus on that a lot in the coming year.

I want to tell you with great precision what you need to stop

doing and what you need to start doing to lead your family with such a pure purpose and power

that the competing messages and influences are drowned out. I plan to help you define success and then take the steps to create and

claim it for you and yours. Your children are stars in your crown, and it's time for them to shine.

And if you do your job, shine they will. You know as well as I do that there are a lot of

competing voices in your child's life. Maybe you're a parent, maybe you're a grandparent,

but we all know this is a fast-moving world. Depression, anxiety, and loneliness is the highest

among young people than it has been since we started keeping records. Think about that.

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