The Business of a Successful Marriage: Treating Your Marriage Like a Business

The Business of a Successful Marriage: Treating Your Marriage Like a Business
Author: Sheila D. Green
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2019-12-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781734398007

Individuals who have owned a business or worked in the business world understand what it takes to create success. There are certain principles and steps that are required to ensure that the business is successful and thriving. Many individuals are taking critical steps that they know will help make their business successful. The same holds true for marriages. We need to start thinking about our marriage like a business. The same things that we think about for a thriving business, we need to think about for our marriages. In most business situations, individuals are thinking about success and the belief that success can be achieved. They picture their business as a success and do whatever it takes to ensure its success. There are so many marriages that are struggling and many end up broken or in divorce. One of the reasons why marriages are not successful is that we do not put the same time and effort into the marriage that we put into our business or our work. We know what it takes to make sure our business is a success and we take the necessary steps for that success. Many married couples fail to do the same thing for their marriages. We don't treat our marriage in a way that will ensure success. In business, we make sure we put in the necessary time and energy. In many marriages, we don't invest the time. In business, we implement strategies to ensure financial success. In marriage, we don't pay close attention to money. In business, we make sure we have a business plan. We tend not to have a business plan for our marriages. In business, we ensure that the employees take time off to recharge. In marriages, we typically do not take needed vacations and spend quality time together. I think you get the point. We must start thinking about marriage as a business and only then can we expect the rewards, just as we are rewarded handsomely by successfully managing a business. This book will be your blueprint to using well known business practices and principles and applying them to your marriage. By following these practices you will be well on your way to a successful thriving marriage.

Treat Your Marriage Like a Business

Treat Your Marriage Like a Business
Author: Mike Danchak
Publisher: Leadership Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2012-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780982859421

Danchak presents an interactive coaching toolbox of relationship information, personal assessments, checklists, questions and coachable moments based on the Married Love Plan. The tools are designed to help identify behaviors in order to create and maintain a robust, intimate, and emotionally connected lifelong trusting relationship.

The Business of Love

The Business of Love
Author: John Curtis
Publisher: The Business of Love
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2005-09-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0977344401

This book provides a step-by-step apprach on how to apply business concepts to marriage, such as writing a marital vision statement or a detailed job description for the husband and wife, or how to set up a performance appraisal process and compensation s

The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage

The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage
Author: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Publisher: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2007-01-02
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780061142840

In the long-awaited follow-up to her groundbreaking, million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura now focuses on how men and women need to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of masculinity and femininity; what the best ways to relate, caretake, and nurture each other are; and how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster. Dr. Laura asserts that in order to produce and sustain a wonderfully satisfying marriage, spouses must recognize and appreciate the polarity between the masculine and the feminine. Both husband and wife have power in the relationship, and each needs to realize this in order to ensure personal satisfaction. Using real-life examples from her call-in radio show, and giving real-life solutions, Dr. Laura focuses on the typical mistakes made by men and women in their relationships and shows how marriages can not only survive but thrive.

What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage

What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage
Author: Amy Sutherland
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2008-02-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1588366901

While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life–namely her dear husband, Scott? In this lively and perceptive book, Sutherland tells how she took the trainers’ lessons home. The next time her forgetful husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, she asked herself, “What would a dolphin trainer do?” The answer was: nothing. Trainers reward the behavior they want and, just as important, ignore the behavior they don’t. Rather than appease her mate’s rising temper by joining in the search, or fuel his temper by nagging him to keep better track of his things in the first place, Sutherland kept her mouth shut and her eyes on the dishes she was washing. In short order, Scott found his keys and regained his cool. “I felt like I should throw him a mackerel,” she writes. In time, as she put more training principles into action, she noticed that she became more optimistic and less judgmental, and their twelve-year marriage was better than ever. What started as a goofy experiment had such good results that Sutherland began using the training techniques with all the people in her life, including her mother, her friends, her students, even the clerk at the post office. In the end, the biggest lesson she learned is that the only animal you can truly change is yourself. Full of fun facts, fascinating insights, hilarious anecdotes, and practical tips, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage describes Sutherland’s Alice-in-Wonderland experience of stumbling into a world where cheetahs walk nicely on leashes and elephants paint with watercolors, and of leaving a new, improved Homo sapiens.

Never Get a "Real" Job

Never Get a
Author: Scott Gerber
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470643862

Young serial entrepreneur Scott Gerber is not the product of a wealthy family or storied entrepreneurial heritage. Nor is he the outcome of a traditional business school education or a corporate executive turned entrepreneur. Rather, he is a hard-working, self-taught 26-year-old hustler, rainmaker, and bootstrapper who has survived and thrived despite never having held the proverbial "real” job. In Never Get a "Real" Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business, and Not Go Broke, Gerber challenges the social conventions behind the "real" job and empowers young people to take control of their lives and dump their nine-to-fives—or their quest to attain them. Drawing upon case studies, experiences, and observations, Scott dissects failures, shares hard-learned lessons, and presents practical, affordable, and systematic action steps to building, managing, and marketing a successful business on a shoestring budget. The proven, no-b.s. methodology presented in Never Get a "Real" Job teaches unemployed and underemployed Gen-Yers, aspiring small business owners, students, and recent college graduates how to quit 9-to-5s, become their own bosses, and achieve financial independence.

The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages

The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages
Author: Marcus Warner
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802497756

What separates happy marriages from miserable ones? Surprisingly, it’s not healthy communication. It’s not conflict resolution skills. It’s actually the size of the marriage’s joy gap . Joy Gap/joi gap/ (n.)-1. The length of time between moments of shared joy When the joy gap gets bigger, problems are more likely to overwhelm you, resentment creeps in, and you start to feel distant and alone in your marriage. When the joy gap is smaller, you regularly feel connected and happy, problems feel manageable, and your marriage becomes a reliable source of joy. But how do you ensure that you’re experiencing joy regularly? Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey have studied relationships (and neuroscience) and discovered four habits that keep joy regular and problems small. Some couples do them naturally, but anyone can learn. That’s why each chapter includes 15-minute exercises that boost joy and re-train your brain to make joy your default setting. You’ll learn new skills including how to: return to joy more quickly after disconnection create stronger bonds and elongate times of happiness boost your enjoyment of physical and emotional intimacy Find out what your marriage looks like after a little work and a whole lot of joy.

A 14-Day Romance Challenge

A 14-Day Romance Challenge
Author: Sharon Jaynes
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0736969691

Captivate Your Husband All Over Again More than 250 ways to WOW your man Does your marriage need a little help in the romance department? Has it grown ho-hum in the daily routine? If so, it's time to spice up your relationship and rekindle the passion with hundreds of creative ways to show your man just how much you love him. Bestselling author and conference speaker Sharon Jaynes offers heart-stirring inspiration and simple ideas that will put a smile on your husband's face and a spark in your marriage. Get ready to... wow your guy with simple acts of affection he'll treasure for a lifetime wake up the passion that was God's idea in the first place watch your marriage grow stronger and your love grow deeper Take the 14-Day Romance Challenge— and make your husband feel like the luckiest man on earth.

When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse

When Your Business Partner is Your Spouse
Author: Kristen Deese
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 164237976X

Owning a business is tough; so is being married. If you’re one of the millions people who happen to be married to your business partner then you likely know the extra challenges that come along with mixing business with marriage. Finally, a book that will help you navigate through many of the main problems married couples face when they become business partners. Things like lack of direction, mixing roles, ineffective communication and poor money management are a tried and true formula for disaster. Stop fighting over the business and putting that added stress to your marriage! The training, exercises and experiences in this book are designed to open the door of communication, understanding, empathy and trust between you and your spouse like never before. Business owners who implement these strategies are able to grow their business AND strengthen their marriage, simultaneously.

Marriage is a Loving Business

Marriage is a Loving Business
Author: Paul A. Hauck
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780664241377

In presenting his theory of love and marriage, a psychotherapist illuminates reasons why people marry and marriages fail, the inner workings of the marital relationship, and the nature of marriage counseling