I was at a conference a few years ago and the speaker happened to mention she had just grabbed this book to read on the plane. As soon as I heard the title, The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family, I knew it was something I needed to check out. Frantic described my family to a T.
This book is a great tool for what the author Patrick Lencioni calls, “restoring sanity to the most important organization in your life.” It walks families through 3 questions to help them figure out what makes their family unique, what their priorities are, and how to come up with a strategic family plan. The ultimate goal of the exercises is to move families away from being reactive, chaotic, stressed out and frantic to a place where they are living life with intentionality and a sense of purpose.
The author sites many reasons why we need to look at our families as organizations and then lead them accordingly. It talks about the price we pay for living in uncontrolled chaos where the hope is to just survive. This book gives you the tools to make purposeful progress towards goals you decide upon as a family. A light bulb moment for me was that we, as a family, need to decide which chaos to tolerate and which we are going to squash.
I would highly recommend this book for families with children, but it would be equally valuable for anyone. Although I must confess that we haven’t put it all into practice, we have seen remarkable value in the changes we have chosen to make. It has helped us hone in on our family’s focus and purpose and given us a strategy for decision-making. Two thumbs up in my book!
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