Comments on: MSPs: 10 Questions You Can’t Ignore

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:49:36 +0000

Darryn: I suspect 48 still has me beat… I’ll know later this week.

By: Darryn Mutch

Darryn Mutch — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:08:45 +0000

I did this and scored 82, then my better half did it for me and I scored 48. I think she’s got a better idea of my work/life balance than I have. (I would like to get my dog to do it for me but I know that the score will be really low as she’s been ignored for the past couple of months ). Will leave it for 3 months and then have another go to see if I’ve improved.

By: Roger Swanson

Roger Swanson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:45:45 +0000

Ouch yeah I scored a 51, so I have a lot of work to do in the area of separation of work and family. So my wife thinks I am really doing a crummy job at the work/life balance act. We did decide to have a holiday once a week “no phone Sunday” so I put down my crackberry and did have some minor shakes but I got through the day. I loving wife did give me the phone back at 6pm she saw I was being a good boy and let me play with my chew toy again. Into this weekend I am mentally prepared for the sunday event. Hope all is well with everyone who attended the #HTG and the #CWPS events in Orlando, Fl now we just have to execute…

By: Chris Chase

Chris Chase — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:32:41 +0000

Well, I scored a 56. Not great, but not as bad as I thought.

By: Robert Lindley

Robert Lindley — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:13:09 +0000

One of the partners in our HTG5 peer group scored 95. He is a newlywed. His peers where quick to point out that it is only downhill from here.

This has been a great exercise for both Deborah and me. I scored 43 in Q3 and I’m happy to say 70 in Q4. I’m trending up! My personal KPI, because it is LIFE/work balance.

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:15:36 +0000

Arlin: Thanks again for allowing us to share HTG content with MSPmentor readers.

Christy: I am giving my wife the form next week.

Hey Chris: Let us know how it goes.

By: Chris Chase

Chris Chase — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:04 +0000

I’m giving this to my wife to fill out. I am afraid of what the results will be. I must improve. Even just reading it make me want to make changes, and so it begins.

-Chris Chase

By: Christy Sacco

Christy Sacco — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:54:11 +0000

Joe,

Thanks for joining HTG in Orlando. Great perspective on this topic that does not usually get discussed at industry events. How about you have your wife rate you now via the form and then again when you come back to visit HTG same time next year? By the way, I know that if I gave the form to my husband I would be worried about the results too!

Christy

By: Arlin Sorensen

Arlin Sorensen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:55:57 +0000

Joe

Our industry is guilty of really neglecting the important things in life for the urgent. Most have no life-work balance. We justify it, like most all entrepreneurs do, as necessary and essential if we are going to succeed and grow our businesses. That is true at some levels. But when it continues day after day, week after week, year after year – well it is just an excuse to justify what we are doing. Fact is it is leading to a lot of problems.

I presented in Orlando about growth and shared what I read somewhere on a blog that many of us are having “career menopause”. We have lost our fire, many have lost their families, and in reality most of us have no life. What a sad result for the most technologically savvy people in the world. We should have technology and our businesses fine tuned to serve us – not make us a slave to work. HTG will continue to drive our members toward the things that matter – not in words alone – but in how we live. We have to get life-work balance back before a whole industry ends up alone and discouraged for life. We can blame lots of things, make a ton of excuses, but bottom line it is absolutely a choice.

Time for all of us to choose what matters. Priority is not something to talk about, it is something to live. Thanks for helping make everyone aware. I have worked my score up to the mid 70′s with a little grace from my lovely bride. But it can be done if we set our minds and hearts to putting first things first and ask others to help hold us accountable. That is the magic of HTG. Few will manage to do it alone. Only when we have to get real and be transparent will we make the choices to put our family first and restore the design God has for us to live a balanced and healthy life.

By: Alex Rogers

Alex Rogers — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:44:59 +0000

I agree with Dave on this – there is nothing more humbling then your family member filling out a score sheet on Basically whats more important our Job or Our family. When my wife first saw this last quarter she had these evil eye brows that appeared above her soft eyes. Which reminds me it is also very important at which time of the month you show this to your spouce and have her fill it out!
I am actually embarrassed to share my first score which was a 40. but actually knowing that i was failing and seeing it writing helped me the next quarter bring it up to a 62. Now I know that score wont win me “Family guy of the year” but it is moving up, and mostly becuase i am now aware of my failures. I would reccomend you have your spouce rate you every quarter regardless if your in HTG or not. Its really good stuff to know.

Alex Rogers
CharTec
http://www.chartec.net