Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind

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Habit 2 Begin with the end in mind

• Define your destination. Then proceed with all
  of your resources to reach that destination.
• Whatever you want can be yours but it will take
  planning and resource dedication.

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Mission Statements

• First step Explore what your family is all
  about
• Start with the marriage partnership
• What kind of marriage partners do we want to be?
• How do we want to treat each other?
• How do we want to handle our finances?
• What roles will each of us have?

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Mission Statements

• What kind of home would you like to invite your
  friends to?
• What makes you want to come home?
• What do you want to be remembered by?

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Principles
What comes first and foremost for you? Religion?
Family? Cultural Identity?
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Ground rules

• Listen with respect
• Restate accurately to show you understand
• Consider writing down the ideas

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• Then examine the nuclear family with the same
  ideas in mind
• Then examine the extended family with the same
  ideas in mind

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Step two Write your mission statement

• www.montana.edu/hhunts
• 437
• Readings
• Covey web-site

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Write a family mission statement

• Example
• Our family mission
• To love each other
• To help each other
• To believe in each other
• To wisely use our time, talents, and resources to
  bless others
• To worship together.Forever

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A destination and a compass

• Creating a family mission statement gives us a
  destination and a compass to know when we are
  off-course.

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Step Three Use it to stay on track.

• Evaluate your daily time expenditures and money
  expenditures, choices in how to react to
  situations according to the mission statement

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Remember Love is a VERB

• Love is actions not just words
• Family is action not just words

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Watch Out In Working on the Mission Statement

• Dont announce it.
• Dont rush it.
• Dont ignore it.