Entrepreneurs - Clear a Path For Your Spouse If You Want to Be on the Same Page
My husband and I work together on cutting wood for our heat source for the winter months.
I enjoy helping him as much as he enjoys the help.
I am an entrepreneur and he is a man who enjoys the comforts of a 9 to 5 job.
Both of us take pleasure in being out doors in nature.
It may be the only thing we have been on the same page about during our 20+ years of marriage.
One particularly nice morning my husband asked me to go into the woods to collect the logs he just finished cutting.
I joyfully agreed but when I got out there he was already returning to the house to tune up his chain saw.
"No problem", I thought, "I'll just keep busy until he comes back.
" As I looked around the parameter of the forest I couldn't see the log he said he had cut up.
Going deeper into the thicket of tall brier's and spindly trees, my clothes were being pulled and torn, thorns were cutting my shins and my unhealed broken ankle began to throb from stepping into holes.
I eventually found the log he had cut up and looked around for a better path to get back to the road.
"Surely he cut one for me.
" I thought.
"We just discussed this yesterday.
Does he really expect me to lug this hard wood such a distance with a hurt foot and without a path?" Within seconds of looking around it became obvious there was no path to get back to the road besides the trail I had just made.
By the time I had taken out two arm loads of wood, I felt beat up, my skin was torn up and I was totally focused on my husbands lack of consideration.
"This is how he does everything!" I exclaimed exasperated.
"He needs to understand that the way you do anything is the way you'll do everything and this is why we're never on the same page!" By the time he returned I had spewed all the negative thoughts in to the wind and I couldn't speak.
I no longer wanted to lay into him because I knew my thoughts had shifted to an epiphany.
I realized the truth.
In the years I've wanted him to be involved in my business, I had never once made a clear path for him either.
I want him to enjoy helping me in my business, but I have never actually shown him the possibilities of how it could be done.
How would he know what the joys or pitfalls could be unless I cut a clear path for him to? I used this wood cutting experience because as entrepreneurs its important that we allow our spouses paths to be easier to journey through.
If you desire to be on the same page then ask yourself one simple question: If I could cut a path for my spouse to understand my work, what would that path look like? If you really give this some thought I think you will find ideas you've never thought about before.
I enjoy helping him as much as he enjoys the help.
I am an entrepreneur and he is a man who enjoys the comforts of a 9 to 5 job.
Both of us take pleasure in being out doors in nature.
It may be the only thing we have been on the same page about during our 20+ years of marriage.
One particularly nice morning my husband asked me to go into the woods to collect the logs he just finished cutting.
I joyfully agreed but when I got out there he was already returning to the house to tune up his chain saw.
"No problem", I thought, "I'll just keep busy until he comes back.
" As I looked around the parameter of the forest I couldn't see the log he said he had cut up.
Going deeper into the thicket of tall brier's and spindly trees, my clothes were being pulled and torn, thorns were cutting my shins and my unhealed broken ankle began to throb from stepping into holes.
I eventually found the log he had cut up and looked around for a better path to get back to the road.
"Surely he cut one for me.
" I thought.
"We just discussed this yesterday.
Does he really expect me to lug this hard wood such a distance with a hurt foot and without a path?" Within seconds of looking around it became obvious there was no path to get back to the road besides the trail I had just made.
By the time I had taken out two arm loads of wood, I felt beat up, my skin was torn up and I was totally focused on my husbands lack of consideration.
"This is how he does everything!" I exclaimed exasperated.
"He needs to understand that the way you do anything is the way you'll do everything and this is why we're never on the same page!" By the time he returned I had spewed all the negative thoughts in to the wind and I couldn't speak.
I no longer wanted to lay into him because I knew my thoughts had shifted to an epiphany.
I realized the truth.
In the years I've wanted him to be involved in my business, I had never once made a clear path for him either.
I want him to enjoy helping me in my business, but I have never actually shown him the possibilities of how it could be done.
How would he know what the joys or pitfalls could be unless I cut a clear path for him to? I used this wood cutting experience because as entrepreneurs its important that we allow our spouses paths to be easier to journey through.
If you desire to be on the same page then ask yourself one simple question: If I could cut a path for my spouse to understand my work, what would that path look like? If you really give this some thought I think you will find ideas you've never thought about before.
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