Hey welcome back to the Six Figure
Mastermind, Marianne DeNovellis here. Guys,
I get it. You've got this whole list of
responsibilities with your work life and
this whole list of responsibilities with
your home life. How do we marry the two
and manage both of them? I'm going to walk
you through it.
This is a very fun conversation. One that
I'm totally passionate about because I
don't know if you know this about me. But
I am a single mom of 5 and I have got
management responsibilities coming out
my ears.
Not just with home and kids and family
but of course with my business and
everything that I'm doing there. So how
do we manage home life and business life?
Well first things first. Don't be a
crappy boss. I'm just going to say it
because you know you probably have
worked in an industry where you've
worked for someone else before and there
were things about your boss that you
loved and maybe some things about that
relationship that maybe you didn't love
so much. Don't become the person that's
going to drive yourself up the wall, okay?
And here's some tips on how to avoid
doing that. Your time is the most
valuable resource that you have. It's the
resource that you can spend but you
can't get back. You can't go out and buy
more time. So leverage your time
appropriately. Meaning if you need to
have business hours, stick to those
business hours. As an entrepreneur it can
be so easy to work just because you're
awake and that's not the way I
want to roll that's not the way I want
to run my business and if a boss was
asking me to do it at all hours of the
night, I'd probably be looking for
another job
pretty quickly. Be a great boss to
yourself. Manage your time well, give
yourself the appropriate breaks and if
require results from yourself. And
everywhere I ever worked in retail, the
boss man was always looking for results.
And they always had competitions and
they always had a reward systems and
they were always tracking my progress and
my sales and how clean I kept the space.
And all my responsibilities. Everything
was up to snuff. I'm going to require
that of myself as a boss. That's part of
being a good boss is to have standards
and requirements and a job description
that you actually adhere to. I...Yeah, I'm
going to get myself breaks but I'm also
going to incentivize myself. If I do this
amount in sales part of that budget is
going to be set aside for this specific
reward. If I keep a beautiful space, I'm
going to incentivize myself with this
different reward. Maybe part of my budget
goes to interior design, okay?
So be a boss that motivates you. That's
probably the number one thing you need
to consider when thinking about how to
manage
work and home life. When it comes to
managing home life and work life, there's
a couple things to consider when you
think about hiring out. You can hire out
in both arenas. In your home life and in
your work life. For instance, if you have
no time to be doing laundry and you'd
rather spend your hours of laundry like
guys, I have five kids. I can't even tell
you how many hours of laundry I do. Like
seriously, did you know that part of
managing my home life and managing my
work life, I have to dedicate a portion
of my time every day to bringing
chickens out of my window well. Like I
didn't know that would be in my job
description but it is, okay? That's part
of my home life. So you're going like
find yourself there are things that
you're going to like - "I don't want to spend
time doing this every day." I would rather
spend my time building a website than I
would doing laundry, okay? So that's
something you can hire out. You can hire
out house cleaning, you can hire out
bookkeeping for your personal or for
your business life, you can hire out
website design. Anything that you don't
enjoy doing that needs to be done on a
regular basis, hire it out. If you also
have you know children at home living
with you, that's going to be a great way
to spread the love. When it comes to
responsibilities, I've got five littles
at home. They all help with cleaning up.
They all help with cooking, they all help
with their own laundry, they all help
with miscellaneous jobs like need to be
done every other week. Like washing the
windows. Every kid has their chore chart
and they all understand the
responsibilities as being part of the
household. So allow yourself to give your
children that responsibility. Allow them
to learn that kind of self sufficient
and entrepreneurial spirit of taking
care of their own needs and wants. Create
a chore chart for them. So that they can
manage those expectations and then
create a reward system. If they do those
chores and create a penalty system if
they don't. Which could just be as easy
as removing the reward, okay? So pass on
the responsibility where you can. Hire it
out where you need to and take upon
yourself when it's perfect. There's
another tip that I want to explain to
you a little bit and it's called
gathering the squad, okay? You know I was
never in cheerleading growing up even
though I wanted to be and part of the
reason was I loved the camaraderie that
I saw in those groups.
I loved how people work together and
literally support each other. So I'm
going to say to you.
gather your squad. Gather your supporters,
gather your cheerleaders and spend time
with them. Whether it's in a professional
space, a business space or both. I know
the people that I can call when I'm
saying "hey, I need some motivation today
or I need some help with this today." It's
okay and it's part of self-sufficiency
to actually reach out for help and even
just cheerleading when you need it. So
gather your squad of people that are
like-minded just like you who are doing
the same things you were doing and
create a support group. You can create a
support group like on Facebook if you
want to, you can create a support group
by meeting once a week with each other
and discussing tips and tricks but
gather your squad of supporters. Another
tip I have is to make your family as
much a part of your business as you can.
So when I'm at home and I'm doing sales
calls during the day,
I've got my kids. They're doing their thing,
they're running around the house. If
they're you know not in school and every
time I make a sale or I hire somebody, I
stop what I'm doing and I run out to the
kids and say- "hey guys I made a sale!" And
all my kids will jump up, they'll run to
me say - "hey, good job! How much money did
you close it for? How did you do it? Are
they excited? And I make my kids part of
the experience. Also, if I can, just let
them come in the room with me. When I'm
doing phone calls or when I'm organizing
data in the CRM. I involve them and teach
them as much as I can even if that's not
something they're going to be doing in the
future because no knowledge goes wasted.
So make the family as much part of your
work life as you can. I used to be you
know kind of the mindset that I'm a
professional, you know I shouldn't have
you know the kids all up in my grill
when I'm doing my professional stuff and
I really kind of laxed off on that
because you know part of me and part of
my brand is that I do have a family and
my kids do sometimes run around and yeah
that sometimes they make noise in the
background of the phone. I don't allow it
to be distracting and I don't allow my
conversations to be interrupted. But you
know what? If my daughter comes in and
waves at me and says hi, I'm going to
acknowledge her and then get right back
to my phone call. I want my family to be
involved in what I do and it frankly
it's part of my brand. The last tip I
want you to consider is celebrate
together. Celebrate your successes
together as a family. Celebrate all of
the time off that you've given yourself
together as a family.
Allow your family to join with you and
cheer you on.
Let them be part of your squad.
Like I said before about being a great
boss yourself, that means rewarding
yourself for your hard work.
Make sure that's balanced though you
don't want to over reward an under
compensate, you've got to be able to
justify the reward but include your
family in that. Share with them how you
did it
so if they'd want to choose to follow in
your footsteps, they can feel your
support in doing so. Hey, thanks for
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