Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

How to have an amazing Family pt 2 with Joe DeSena, Founder of Spartan Games #joedesena

19 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment of the interview, Joe DeSena emphasizes the importance of a clear family mission statement that serves as a "true north" for all members. He advises families to sit together, define their long‑term goal (e.g., lasting 50 years), and use that mission to evaluate everyday decisions, such as social activities that may conflict with the family’s purpose. DeSena also stresses that parents should view their children not as friends but as future independent adults, preparing them to stand on their own. Consequently, when faced with choices in parenting, the harder path should be chosen over the easier one to build resilience and readiness for tomorrow.

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Number 3, I would say you should have a mission statement. You and your family should just sit down, lay out what your true north is. What's, what's our goal here as a family? And then every decision you're about to make, reflect back on that goal and think, wait a minute, our goal is to be the family that makes it 50 years. And okay, then why are you out with your buddies drinking on a Friday night flirting with that girl? That doesn't fit the mission, right? So make sure you lay out a clear mission that the entire family is bought into. Do it with them. And if you have children, you're not, you're not supposed to focus on them being your best friend. Your job is to make sure they're ready for tomorrow, that they're going to be able to stand without you. You're raising adults. And so almost every choice, when given the choice between do I, do I make them go the hard way or the easy way, should be the hard way.