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your family to live with accountability, responsibility, joy, and abundance. It’s about giving your posterity equal opportunity to leverage that Authentic Wealth to improve their lives. QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER Ask yourself a few questions here: • How would your children or grandchildren describe your family’s culture?
Do they feel encouraged to contribute their own life experiences to the family history? Is there a “place” where these stories, values, and lessons are gathered?
It’s also where you keep a copy of your Values & Vision Statement and other important contributions from family members. MAKING DEPOSITS When it comes to putting the LLC concept into everyday practice, our family regularly invites everyone (our 17 grandkids, our adult children, and Sharee and me) to make LLC deposits in our family’s Legacy Bank. On Family Retreats With a Purpose, for example, we have everyone share an I Remember When Story, which we then save in our Legacy Bank files. If someone has a Better Life Circle experience to contribute, we save it in our Legacy
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WHAT IS THE LEGACY BANK? The Legacy Bank is essentially a repository for your family’s Foundational, Intellectual, and Financial Dimension assets and rules of governance. It’s where you keep a copy of your KASH Blueprint, a working document that outlines how family members can engage with your family’s financial assets (e.g., taking out loans from a family IUL for college, business ventures, etc.).
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Do your loved ones have a clear idea of who you are and what you stand for? Do they know your stories of overcoming challenges, facing setbacks, or achieving success? Could they retell funny or charming anecdotes from your life?
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HOW TO GET KIDS TO LOVE LEARNING?
IT’S ALL IN WHAT WE SAY AND DO
From the time our kids are infants, we as parents are immediately put in the role of teacher, right? We find ourselves teaching them to walk, to talk, to kick their first ball, to sing the alphabet, to identify colors. Their young minds are hungry, eager, open to everything we and the world have to teach them (except maybe to clean up their toys and go to bed on time!).
forget when our oldest, Ethan, was little, playing his first official summer of soccer. As those short legs ran that field and he scored his first goals, I found myself screaming like some wild, ridiculous parent on the sidelines. I swear the other parents might have thought he broke a world record or something, I was yelling so loudly. But then it hit me. He sees me celebrating his soccer goal. But did I cheer that loudly when he read his first book? Whether it was reading or spelling or playing the piano, I noticed myself cheering the hardest when he was doing something on the field. Harmony and I had a discussion early on, telling ourselves we need to make sure our kids see us cheering for them in the things that are most important in life. For us, that’s been their relationship with God, their involvement in church. It’s been those moments when they’re
setting their goals, and working to achieve them. It’s been how they support their family, cousins, and friends. And it’s how they apply themselves in school. REMINDING THEM WHAT MATTERS So as the good grades have come through, we have celebrated big. And when their motivation has dwindled and the procrastination has kicked in, we’ve talked to them about the value of consistency, of showing up for our responsibilities in life, and of the long- term payoff of education. Whether you’re in the thick of parenting your kids or helping guide your grandkids, I hope we can all remember to cheer them on in what matters most and help them cherish learning. –Emron Andrew
AS THEY GET OLDER But as they continue to grow, their thirst for
knowledge and skills can start to wane. It’s much more fun to play video games, scroll on their phones, or hang out with their friends. It can be tough as parents to keep them motivated to apply themselves in school, to overcome intellectual hurdles, and to embrace a lifelong love of learning. But as my wife, Harmony, and I remind each other (especially with a son in high school), we can’t give up. We can show them in both what we say and do that learning is invaluable to us in our own lives, and that it’s important — and fulfilling — to continually add to our Intellectual Dimension. CHEERING THEM ON It’s also helpful to think about how we encourage our kids in their intellectual endeavors. I’ll never
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