About
First off let me say thank you for taking the time to visit this site. There are millions of websites out there and I am grateful you would spend a little time here. I hope you find something that you find useful that you can adapt to your lives to improve what you are already doing in your quest to be the best version of you.
I am about as far from a perfect parent as can be, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. The posts you will find in these pages are not to tell you how you should lead your family but I hope you give you some ideas to add to what you are already doing. If you don’t have kids don’t click close. In these pages, we will talk about family leadership and how you can lead from any position in your family.
In one way or another, we are all part of a family. That family of yours might be blood or those you call family because of your association and love for them. Personal leadership is the key to happiness and as we exercise and develop our personal leadership we help those around us as we lead with them.
This is how I hope we can grow together through the information found through FamilyLead. Together we can work together to make our lives better and take that out into the world and be an influence for good in all we do. Leadership is how we make those within our influence feel about themselves. The secret is that the person we influence the most is ourselves.
The first thing you need to know about me is that I think I am the luckiest man in the world. My name is Jason I have a gorgeous wife of ten years that has blessed my life not only with love but with two amazing children. Our first bundle of joy came to us just over 9 years ago and our life has never been the same since and we are so grateful for that. We named him Asher and he is the typical boy whose day is filled with superheroes and sports. Asher has been diagnosed with Apraxia of Speech which means his tongue and his brain have a hard time making a connection to form the words he wants to say. This has given us the opportunity to do things a little differently than most parents. This has given us the chance to become closer as a family as we all work together to help Asher give voice to those amazing thoughts you can see in his eyes.
Where Asher is seeking to find his voice our daughter was born with the confidence and voice to make up for anything we were lacking in our family. Aadynn is 6 going on 16 and has no problem letting us know what she wants or how it should be done. When not talking to us she can be found walking around the house belting out a tune living life in her very own personal musical. I get to live in my very own Disney musical.
I have been fighting with the idea of starting a blog for a couple of years now. When we first started having children I was still going to school getting my bachelors in Accounting and then when Aadynn was born I was studying to get my MBA in leadership. So at the time, I was a new father worried about all the things most fathers are overwhelmed with. That feeling of not being ready, the pressure of living up to the high pedestal your children see you on, and quite simply, not wanting to mess things up. Because now it was not just my life it was the life of those two little ones I was now living for.
As I had the chance to study business leaders and organizations that had a lot of success in the business world I started to see that many of the principals they were using to bring success could also be applied to the small organization my wife and I were leading on a daily basis. So as I started thinking more about it and taking the time to study more successful business models I saw how all of this can be applied to make our family stronger. The keys to a strong organization are the same as the keys to a strong family organization. It all starts with the leadership and the process the leadership has in place.
This is what I have set out to do with this blog. Take the leadership and business principals that are found in great organizations and show how these same practices and principles they have put in place can help us have the same success in our homes. The most important organization you will ever be a part of is your family organization. It all starts with leadership in the home and leadership all starts with us personally.
I believe that we can change the world for the better. We determine what that better we want to see in the world is. The biggest influence we can have to change the world is to change it within the four walls of our own home. As we lead our family organizations with value-based leadership principles we send not only ourselves but, more importantly, our children out ready to take on the world. I am not a perfect parent nor do I pretend to be. Our family organization is working through all these principles one day and one challenge at a time. Take this challenge with my family, to change the world by taking control of our own homes, then we can change the world one family business at a time.
