🏔 Teaching Your Kids The Family Values

PLUS: New website, who dis?

October 13, 2024

Hey all 👋 

As a reminder, this what to expect from my personal newsletter:

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 🥹