Homemaker or Family CEO

I’d like to you to take a grander view of the homemaker role. As many mums know the role of parent is often under-estimated, thankless and exhausting. Let’s look at these 3  
1. Under estimated - I’m going to assume that if you’re in a cluttered pickle right now then you’re no longer underestimating the task.
2. Thankless - well it doesn’t have to be that way - your attitude about the job and about yourself in the job makes a huge difference to how others treat you,  Don’t expect children to understand the gravity of your responsibilities but remember your not here to be their slave either.
3. Exhausting - much of that comes down to minimising your workload by being organised, having less stuff to deal,  maintaining a good diet and exercising.  Think like an athlete, they know that to do a job well, they must take care of themselves.

Try approaching the job like running a business (forget about the fact that you’ve created your clutter) and  imagine that you’ve just purchased a run down profitless but potentially lucrative business and you’re going to build it up to be a successful thriving one. Your kids are your apprentices learning on the job as they go from your example. Successful business people teach others all the tasks required to run the business so that it can still function in their absence, so this business of your household requires you to train your employees how to run their own households, yes I know it’s a 17 year apprenticeship but that’s just the nature of this business.
Your first task then is to clean up the place so that everything can run efficiently.
That’s it for this time, in the next episode Setting Goals for super fast success.

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