One of the common complaints
I hear from
business building women
is their husbands/partners
don’t take the initiative
with the household chores.
They wait to be told
what to do.
It is a task for them
and a project for us.
“Your job might be
a series of tasks.
Tasks are work
where money is traded
for time and effort.
You put in a fixed amount of time,
expending effort along the way,
and you get paid.
In the end,
tasks are completed and
it’s up to the boss
to weave those tasks together
into something useful.”
In the case of chores,
the woman becomes
the unpaid boss.
She’s placed
in the role of project manager
and we all know
how much additional work
THAT is.
This sucks time and energy
from business building
and it hampers our success.
How to avoid this?
Consider treating the household tasks
as a small business
and your spouse/partner
TRULY as your partner.
He/she should be assigned
half of the responsibility
for the tasks
relating to the home’s upkeep.
Each task has a budget.
Each task has a project manager.
You can have monthly meetings
about the tasks
but the responsibility for the tasks
belong to that task’s project manager.
Delegate ALL of the responsibility
for some household tasks.
You can’t do everything
AND build an awesome business.