529 - Your Home is a Business

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Education, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever thought about how much your home is a business?

Our homes are businesses. The entire US economy runs on the economy of your house. If the American family is doing well, the American economy is doing well.

When I talk about our homes as businesses, I don't mean that you should be just going through the motions and checking boxes or anything even similar to that. In this episode, I share how you can use tools and systems (similar to what you would do at work) to gain a bigger impact and less stress at home.

A business usually has a CEO and COO. Your home most likely does, too. Sometimes you may be acting as the CEO and COO, sometimes you may just have one of those roles.

The CEO creates the strategy of the company, manages the capacity and resources, and plans for execution. Some of the things you may do as the CEO of your home are:

During your weekly Sunday Basket® routine, you look at what constraints you have in the upcoming week, what needs to get done
Planning your week and trimester in advance

The COO plays a critical role in running the day-to-day actionables that will accomplish the strategy the CEO has created for the team.

The key to success is that the CEO and COO are both operating proactively and strategically. Making choices about what to work on, how to spend time and money, and what experiences and impact they want to create within their household.

In this episode, I deep dive into how The Friday Workbox® operates for your business and apply this to how the Sunday Basket® helps you run the business of home and family.

I'd love to hear your feedback on this one! Do you see the parallels between running your home as a business?

Come learn how to plan like the CEO of your home!

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0:00.0	This week's mailbag is from Andrea when planning on the front end saves you so
0:06.8	much time in the middle of the process finally sinks in. This week I took the
0:13.4	time getting my Friday work box set up. I triaged and cleaned up my work email
0:19.2	inbox by using filters and colored labels and I got all my contacts imported and
0:26.3	and grouped into committee categories and the Friday work box fits so nicely into my
0:32.8	wheeled locking case to travel back and forth to meetings and the office work in bad weather.
0:40.8	Do you have an organized 365 success story? If so we would love to hear about it. Please send us
0:47.3	an email at customer service at organized 365 and tell us how you have taken back your home,
0:54.0	your paper and your life with organized 365.
1:05.1	Welcome to the organized 365 podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer,
1:10.8	productivity expert and motivational speaker Lisa Woodruff. This podcast will help you embrace
1:17.7	progress over perfection and create lasting functional organizing in your home. I have so
1:24.2	much to share with you so let's get started. I have wanted to record this podcast episode
1:34.3	for a long, long time but I'm having a hard time putting into words these thoughts and observations
1:41.3	that I've had for quite a few years. The basic premise is this. Our homes are businesses.
1:51.6	The house that you live in, the family that you're a part of, you are a business. The reason
1:56.8	why I've had a hard time putting it into words is one, I don't want to offend people like I'm
2:01.5	making families feel so clinical or so cold like a business like you could be a fun family
2:06.8	business with a great company culture but also I just cannot get this idea out of my head.
2:12.5	So last week we talked about playing chess and checkers simultaneously and the next couple of
2:18.8	podcasts after this one I'm going to talk about like what do different family entities and
2:24.6	different phases of life look like through the lens of running your house like a business. So
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