Family Mission Statement Conversation Starters

Your family mission statement should set a clear path of the actions that define your family, so it takes an ongoing conversation to help your family check in on these behaviors and stay successful. 

Through a mission statement for your family, you are helping set the daily actions that will help you achieve your vision as a family. It creates more purposeful living, and it sets a benchmark you can use to evaluate actions and decisions. (If you are looking for more guided help to create your family mission statement first, explore our Family Legacy Study, which will teach you how to create the statements your family needs.)

Let’s get started and explore potential family questions to ask that will help your family stay on track with its mission.

Family Mission Statement Check In Questions

Use these family questions to ask to get the conversation started. Remember, these are prompts, so keep asking follow up questions to dig deep as a family.

1. Where did we struggle to implement our family mission statement recently? What made it challenging?
2. What was one of your favorite things we did to practice our family mission statement?
3. Are there actions we are spending too much time on that don’t align with our family mission that we need to re-evaluate?
4. What part of our mission statement resonates the most with you and why?
5. What feels unclear in our mission statement or where you are not sure on how we are actually living it out?
6. What new ideas do you have of actions that support fulfilling our family mission statement?
7. How can we work on holding each other accountable to living out the family mission statement?
8. What is a decision we need to make and how could we use our family mission statement to think through making that decision?
9. What is something you would like to achieve personally based on our mission?
10. If you could restate our mission in your own words, how would you do that?

Your Family Mission Statement Sets a Path

The reason why all these questions matter to continue to check in as a family is because your family mission statement provides the clear path to keep you on course. Use these questions to help your family stay focused and to live purposefully.

As a next step, save these check-in questions you’d like to return to and set a regular time you will get together as a family and review. If you need help on creating your own family meeting agenda, find our free guide here.