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Dear Catholic entrepreneurs with hardened hearts and businesses to run … How do you combine marketing, mustaches, and solid catechesis into a nurturing best-daddy-ever moment?
Well, about a year ago, a certain six-year-old daughter of mine was under the weather one night, and after dinner, all she wanted to do was stretch out on the sofa.
In the meantime, I had various things to do, being the busy gentleman that I am, but I decided to sit down with her and …
The timing was PERFECT for some teasing.
So, I started pulling her leg about the “Dan Kennedy birthday party” I was planning for her, complete with “Pin the Mustache on the Marketer” and “Bobbing for Leads,” you know, the games all the kids are talking about these days.
Let’s just say at that point …
My daughter wasn’t too amused, but she’s come to expect this kind of humour from me.
So, what do I do next?
I crank it up to 11, and start reading to her from one of Dan Kennedy’s books, the one on pricing strategy.
Yes, that’s how I roll.
There’s a great part in one of the chapters of this book about expensive pet products that I think she enjoyed. (I’m probably projecting here, but whatever!)
Anyway, while she’s fiddling with the cool, damp cloth on her forehead, she starts looking at the cover of the book and asks about the drawings of the bull and the money, and that’s when we start practicing her reading skills and talking about priorities …
Which is my PERFECT opening for bringing up THE BIG 3Fs OF LIFE:
Faith. Family. Finances. (Something for all of us to reflect on and pray about during this upcoming Advent.)
“You gotta put God first, sweetie,” I said.
“What about your family, daddy?”
“God first, then family, and then your finances,” I told her.
So then she asks: “Daddy, what are finances?”
It’s a great question and we got to talking.
All in all, it was a beautiful moment, between working in the Faith, inspiring some financial literacy, and even solving a Rubik’s Cube together.
I loved it!
I’m still waiting for my Daddy of the Year Award to come in, but it must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
In the meantime, stay holy my friends and God bless.
P.S. We did have a Dan Kennedy birthday party … but it was for me … no games, though.