My family‘s needs will dictate my priorities only 30% of the time at best when we all get united.
Here I am:
Probably sounding corny somewhat but I feel compelled to share this with everybody.
Partially because it’s dealing with financial freedom, but it’ll also share insight on how I view fatherhood for myself.
I care about being a family man. I see myself being the best father, husband, neighbor, friend, even coach.
One aspect that I feel I need to share is how I’ll be running my life business wise and the level of impact my future family will have on it.
For starters, I don’t think I have my family at full effect yet, so it could be safe to assume that this is something they’re gonna get a kick out of and hopefully a better understanding with my mad methods.
But moving forward to what many would probably consider a radical stance is that I wouldn’t have more 30% of my family’s needs dictate my priorities.
I categorize priorities as wants that would require us all to be together at once.
That would include:
- family trips
- Entertainment wants
- Parties
Anything extra along those lines. I feel the other 70% should be towards the business.
I’ll have a business of course that’s going to make us plenty of money.
Probably more than what I could foresee us spending.
That’s not to say that my family would only get 30% at max of business profits.
I do see there needing to be a system in place where I’ll be doing what I can to encourage everybody to justify why they need more than what I’m willing to put towards them.
Let me clarify some more:
That 30% that I plan on putting towards their life will be no questions asked contributions.
The list I made earlier is just my best guess at what I could see them having to want the money for.
I’ll be teaching them a lesson that I’m positive will help them in the long run. Justification.
They’re gonna have to justify the lifestyle they plan on funding, especially if it comes from my pockets.
I’m positive I’ll be very vocal and open with my goals business wise.
If they can find a way to align their desires with my own it’s almost opening the door to safely mix business with family in a healthy way.
My spouse however, I absolutely plan on helping her be just as competent as I would be.
That’s where I’ll be confident that we’ll have double whatever my potential is, however I’ll also be a little more militant with my business’s culture.
I’ll let my better half take other directions if seen to be fit.
The family however, it’s gonna be our challenge to get a better idea of their wants and needs.
I wouldn’t be the type to push them in a specific direction.
I’ll just have confidence that they’ll be interested in following my path because it’s gonna be clear I’m having a blast growing everything.
So 30% would be all they get out of me no questions asked contributions asked, but if needed to get more, they’re gonna have to get creative.
That might be in the form of learning how to do grant proposals or learn how to add value in a way that I would be a fool to ignore.