Monday Motivation: Family Values.

Foreign. Good morning, Cadre. Good morning. Good morning. Hope everybody's having a good start to your St. Patty's Day. Good morning, everybody. I got a little Irish tunes going on with the Drop kick, Murphy's. Let's go. Hope everybody's having a great start to St. Patty's here. Alexa, stop. Good morning, everybody. Luke here. Hope you are doing well. Happy St Patty's to you and yours, your family. If you have a little Irish blood in you or a lot of Irish blood in you, hopefully you're enjoying the wonderful, wonderful start to the week.

And a pretty incredible holiday for anybody who starts with Mick. I'm just kidding. But hope all is well. Hope all is well in your world. So I just got back from a week in California. Week in California was incredible. Got to spend some time with my family. We did hiking the Joshua Tree. My kids did the tram. My wife and I even got a little bit of time for ourselves. A lot of hikes, averaged a ton of steps, a lot of pool time. Weather wasn't magnificent, but it was still remarkable. So just getting that one week reprieve, recharge where, you know, you feel like you're, you're, you're back to yourself, you know, after going for a while of, you know, kind of going pretty hard, if you will.

But so. C. good morning, Jules. Good morning, junk food junkie. Robert, so good to see you. But one thing that my wife and I did when we were down in Palm Springs is it was very important to us that we came away with those, you know, five, six days that we had an opportunity to write value statements. Value statements for our family. I always called it the Wetland Family values. We might change it to Wyntland Wisdom or whatever it is, but it's going to go on our wall and we're going to paint it on our wall of all of the values.

And we feel like now's the right time to really drive home this message. Just like how organizations have mission statements, value statements, you name it, you know, we. We felt as though, you know, having our, you know, nuclear family have our own value statement as well, was very, very important. So I'm going to share that today. I'm going to share what my wife and I came up with. So I'm going to read these off. So here it is, the Wendland family values. And this is, you know, like I said, when off on vacation, this is the one thing that we wanted to really lock in, load and then ultimately put on our wall or develop some sort of mural, something along those lines and awesome.

Luke, each day you accomplish the three daily wi. Each day. Yes. You. You dang right we did. But okay, so ultimately we want to put this on as a mural on our wall, paint it something like that so we can see it all the time. Here we go. There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. There's seven values. Number one. We are good, caring and faithful people who are always on the lookout to make a world, make the world a better place through small acts of kindness that takes no talent to commit. In doing so, we enrich the lives of others and ourselves.

Number one, we are honest, especially when it is hard and trustworthy. We do what we say we are going to do next. 1. We are goal driven individuals who find joy in the process of working towards achievements. We recognize that life isn't always fair, that ease doesn't always mean good and difficulty doesn't always mean bad. Challenges will come and we will face them with strength, strength, resilience and healthing coping strategies. We choose faith over fear. We understand that mistakes are part of life, but our character is defined by how we respond.

We seek forgiveness, learn from our errors and strive to grow as a family. We are each other's biggest supporters. While we may have conflicts or annoy one another, we always lead with love and search for resolution. We celebrate each other's successes, speak highly of one another, encourage one another and provide support when needed. We know this life is precious and not promised. We commit to eating well, exercising and caring for our mental health. We enjoy technology but use it mindfully, ensuring it enhances rather than dominates our lives.

We nurture our spiritual well being through church, prayer, meditation, journaling or time in nature through we will not use substances or medications that are not prescribed to us as a doctor. And lastly, we value our independence and embrace curiosity, adventure and courage. But above all else, we love each other deeply. So that's what we came up with as a family and we are going to continue to move forward with that. And we hope that our children ultimately pass this on or some version of this on to their own kids and their kids kids and all of the things.

So like I said, I don't know what it's ultimately going to be called. Wentland, Wisdom, Wetland, Family values? We don't know. But these are the seven that we came up with that meant a lot to us. So with that being said, I encourage you to think of maybe some of your own household values or some of your own household value statements that you would like to lean into that Ultimately, your kids, your family, your dogs, your significant other, your partners or your single self can live and breathe into.

So with that, those are our values and we are going to have an amazing rest of the year and years to come by always knowing what our north stars are. And then we have to look at this. And so if my daughter, my son, my other son are finding themselves in sticky positions or positions that they need to find themselves out of, we will go through the values together. We will read this. We will ensure that this is something that we're all on the same page of consistently, over and over again. So, again, have a wonderful St.

Patty's Day. And I hope that these value statements just drive a little bit of curiosity for you. I hope they drive a little bit of curiosity for you and your family to be able to say, maybe we want to do this too, or maybe this is something we want to lean into or maybe something we want to select. Not the same values, but just like to actually do the exercise. How about adding our word as our guarantee and we'll get it done so that. I hear you, junk food junkie. So what we have is we are honest, especially when it's hard and trustworthy.

We do what we say we are going to do. That was kind of our version of our word is our guarantee when we'll get it done. But it's, it's, it's right there. It's aligned with you. I completely agree. Thanks for that feedback. That was awesome. I love it very, very much. But you all have a great St. Patty's today. Hopefully you're dressed up in a little green or celebrate accordingly. We are back in the saddle. As they say, no rest for the weary. We are going to continue to go pretty hard now that we're back and we have no choice.

But I hope everybody has a wonderful, wonderful day. Thank you for joining in today. I really appreciate it and hopefully you appreciated the value statements for our family. Take care, you guys. Peace. Have a wonderful day. Thank.