Here are some of my favorite quotes from How Will Your Life Be Measured by Clayton Christensen " My wife Christine and I started when we were newly engaged, with an end goal- a specific family culture- in mind. We didn't think about it in terms of culture, but that is what we were doing. We decided in a deliberate fashion that we wanted our children to love each other and to support each other. We decided that we wanted our children to have an instinct to obey God. We decided that we wanted them to be kind. And finally, we decided that we wanted them to love work." Being deliberate about what we want will dramatically increase the likelihood of us achieving it... "I would for example, never work in the yard unless I had at least one- and often two- kids hanging on to the handle of the mower. For the longest time, they werent really helping at all. Pushing a lawnmower with children hanging on, barely able to touch the ground, didn't make mowing easier, but that didn't matter. What really mattered was that it allowed us to define work for them as something that was a good thing. We did it together. It was fun, by definition. And I made sure they knew they were helping the family." Advice I wish I would have read a few years earlier, but as the African proverb mentions.... "The best time to plant a tree is five years ago, the second best time is today."