Hey all 👋
As a reminder, this what to expect from my personal newsletter:
👨👩👧👦 Thoughts + resources on faith, parenting and family
💼 Business updates + learnings (BetterLetter, Malachi Daily, Birth Ed Course)
🗓 1-2ish times a month
Today, I’m sharing 1 idea on family, my new website, and 2 things I’m consuming.
Family Values 👨👩👧👦
One of my takeaways from the Mastermind in Colorado was to finally hammer down our family values.
Here’s where we’re landing: the acronym C.H.I.L.L.
Curious + Creative:
We are always learning about God, people and the world.
We create more than we consume. And whenever possible, we create together.
Hospitality: We named our home Bethany, which means House of Welcome. We bring people into our home, provide a seat at the table, feed them, ask them their stories and invite them into ours.
Integrity: We do the right thing. We do what we say we will do.
Local: We focus on the good of our direct neighbors and our town.
Loving: We love God and each other well. We meet practical needs, sacrifice for others and pray for them in person.
It’s wet cement at this point, but I think it’s a strong starting point.
Here’s how we got there. We asked:
What natural gifts did God give me, Dana and the kids? Individually and collectively?
What makes us unique as a family?
Why did God place us on this street in this neighborhood in this town at this time?
What we do in practice (I believe I got this from Blake Smith):
We don’t have this hanging on a wall (yet), but practically, this is what we do.
Every night at dinner, we pick 1 family value.
We ask everyone to share 1 example of someone in our family demonstrating that value in action from the day.
Even at ages 3 and 4, Christopher and Cali are pretty good at noticing and articulating this stuff. Pretty cool.
Excited to keep building on this.
New Website 👀
The end of an era. Officially let my Lenahan Coaching website expire.
My first real business. The bridge into entrepreneurship. Allowed Dana to stop working. Paid for Bethany. 🫡
I looked so young
Feels good to have a new personal website that reflects everything I’m working on right now.
Also feels good to own kieranlenahan.com again.
What I’m consuming right now 🧠
🎧 Listening to: Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell (link)
At a point with BetterLetter where I need to free up more time to keep building. Have a part-time employee and are in the process of hiring a FT employee.
📚 Reading: Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith (link)
What I’ve realized already: Understanding the Trinity is not for “advanced Christians.” It’s way more central to what makes Christianity Christianity than what we all assume. Eye opening book.
Cheers,
Kieran ✌
p.s. Dana, her mom and Judah went to the Intentional Motherhood Retreat in Bend, Oregon last week. The bigs and I picked them up from the airport and they wanted to get flowers for them 🥹
