Being the Executive of Your Own Home

by Heidi LeBlanc

Many years ago, my sister Becky and I wanted to make a living by writing a book.  It was the days before blogging.  We started out in a notebook.  I found the notebook just the other day.  And I will share some of the fun things we wanted to do.

Excerpt from the notebook.

Title/Role : Being the Executive of Your Own Home

Responsibility:  Running a Household

Personnel:
1.  Yourself
2.  Husband
3.  Children
4.  Grandparents
5.  Friends and Associates

OURSELF, MOM, WIFE, CEO of the HOME (Below is what a mom does).
Secretary
1.  Scheduling
2.  Organizing
3.  Filing
4.  Messaging

Treasurer
1.  Bookkeeping
2.  Budgeting (I love Dave Ramsey - my husband lives his principles and it blesses our home).
3.  Accounting
4.  Saving
5.  Profits

Planning
1.  Time management
2.  Stress management
3.  Educating
4.  Goal setting

Board members
1.  Family councils
2.  Decision making
3.  New perspective

Benefits (Insurance, Health)
1.  Education (I feel that my education is the best insurance policy I could ever have.  I can support my family if anything ever happened and I needed too.  My education allows me to have the flexibility I need to plan and change my schedule around my children.
2.  Exercise
3.  Eating right and Healthy (My secular work is called Food $ense, check it out!)
4.  JOY

Mission Statement
1.  Gain knowledge
2.  Live well
3.  Have JOY

I love finding things that bless my life.  I really have a JOYFUL life.  I am grateful for that.

Yesterday a cousin shared this on facebook and so I wanted to share it as well.

What too can we do?  What is your life dream?  What brings vitality?  What do you live for?

What brings vitality to your life?

This is a question I have been contemplating since I read, Dan Baker's book.

What brings vitality to my life?  What makes me jump our of bed, anxious for a new day?  What makes me give up everything else?  What makes me passionate?

I live to create!  To make new things, to share my ideas, to formulate those ideas, to go the extra mile.

When I was very little, I remember my mom always telling me to go the extra mile.  That when we do anything we need to do more, give more, be more.  I am grateful for that.

Just this past year, we bought an older car that has a cassette player in it, and my husband had some cassettes I had never heard, so I would listen to them in my drive.  And I learned I absolutely LOVE Sterling W. Sills, he gave a talk about the second mile.  That often what we do is just getting by, but when we go the second mile the task isn't drudgery anymore, it becomes fun.  That is what brings me vitality.

When I use cute table decorations, and candles for dinner.  It becomes more than just getting food into the families mouths.  It becomes a fun pleasant experience.  One I have fun with.

When I wake my children in the morning, if I have breakfast ready for them.  It makes things run smoothly.  It makes me feel better.  (I know that it is true, when my husband says, I set the mood for the house - although, I don't like it.  Too much pressure.  But, when I do little extras, I feel satisfied and pleased.)

I go to Deseret Industries often, and buy up his works.  He was an excellent motivator, writing, and speaker.  So glad, I have a car with a cassette player in it - so I can enjoy his works, until they are recopied into digital.