65 - 10 Ways to Outsource Your Household Tasks
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Do you have more to do than time to do it? Here are 10 ways to outsource your household tasks. I am a wife, mother, and business owner. Over the last 20 years I have juggled those three commitments in various ways. And what I've come to understand is that no one person can do everything. I have tried all of the ideas where you have your kids and your husband help you with the household tasks in order to free up some of your time. And I do many of those, but what do you do when there's not enough of you and your children and your husband to get everything done?
In order to grow my business over the last 20 years I have always hired help. Sometimes that is in the form of help to actually help my business as in a personal assistant, or an editor. But more and more I find it that the tasks I need to outsource are household related.
And really at the end of the day, the majority of the clients that the Organize 365 team organizes are really busy career oriented women who have let the household tasks go in order to focus on what is more important, their spouse, their children, in their career.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional |
| 0:07.1 | organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home |
| 0:11.8 | organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events. |
| 0:17.0 | So sit back, relax, and let's get organized. |
| 0:21.0 | Today I want to talk to you about a post I've been working on for two years. |
| 0:26.4 | Yes, I have been working on writing this post for two years. |
| 0:30.5 | First of all, because it's not really completely home organization related and secondly because it's kind of an out of the box |
| 0:37.7 | thinking as far as everyone I run into so here's the deal. I am a super, super productive and goal-oriented person. |
| 0:46.1 | Shocking. I know. You all know that already. But in order to be super |
| 0:50.3 | productive and goal-oriented and really achieve what I want to achieve a lot of times |
| 0:55.3 | that involves other people either hiring people for my business or outsourcing tasks in |
| 1:01.2 | our home to other people or deciding things aren't going to get done at all |
| 1:06.2 | or eliciting family help or just getting people to buy into whatever crazy idea I'm up to next. Yes, I know I have a lot of crazy ideas. |
| 1:16.4 | So I'm always moving, always thinking, always doing, and always busy, but I'm always very, very |
| 1:21.8 | focused on what my next goal is. |
| 1:25.0 | And I learned over time that you could be busy doing a lot of things and get nowhere. |
| 1:30.0 | Or you could be busy doing a lot of things and have a lot of other people working for you and you get other places quicker than you ever could on your own. |
| 1:38.0 | So today I want to talk to you about 10 ways you can outsource some of your household tasks, things maybe you haven't even thought |
| 1:46.8 | about that will free up more time for you to do what you love. |
| 1:50.3 | So the overall premise is if you are organizing your house focusing on |
| 1:55.2 | organizing your house with the 40 weeks one whole house challenge or you know you're just |
| 1:59.7 | reading about organization ideas or maybe you're growing your own professional organization business and that's why you |
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