 10 tips for successfully working from home with your spouse. Now, none of this applies to me because my wife's in the next room. However, working with somebody you love can quickly turn into a nightmare if you don't approach it right. In this video, I'm gonna show you the best ways to work with your spouse or significant other and not have issues and be really protective. And we're gonna start that right now. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. Welcome to my channel. Take a look around. There's a lot of space here. Got a lot of videos, stuff for you to look at. Don't forget to subscribe. There's a big subscribe button down there. Don't forget, there's also a bell notification right next to it. Ring the bell. You gotta ring the bell because if you do and you turn on all notifications, I can let you know when I do a new video and you won't miss out on a single one. You won't have to go hunting for it. You'll be part of the VIP group, the Fisher family. So cool. So let's talk about working from home. Now, I don't normally work from home during the pandemic. I did, I had to. Something I did, I'm doing it right now. I do record all my videos pretty much from home, sometimes someplace else. But I normally go to a place like Starbucks and work. I also have an office down the street. I could go to that and work. But I don't really like working at home. But when you're forced to do so, there's certain things you should do in certain steps you should take to make it more enjoyable for both of you. Number one, separate business and pleasure. Now, this is kind of hard to do, but you've got to both be on the same wavelength there. Pleasure is when you're together as a couple and when you're working together. You know, one person may be a boss. The other one may be a boss. You may be equals, but try to keep it separate. One thing I do see when people have a business together and they work at home, they tend to use their personal accounts for business expenditures. Not a good idea. You want to keep that separate because you're going to end up arguing, well, who's going to buy the kids lunches this week or why don't we go on that trip and that vacation? And those are two separate things. So the first thing I'll tell you is you've got to separate business and pleasure. Those are two different things and you've got to separate the time that you spend on business and pleasure. And those are two different times too. Number two, practice smart role play. And what I mean by that is, especially if you're working on the same business together, if you're working on different businesses, it doesn't matter as much. But if you're working within the same business, you're going to find that one of you is better at one thing than the other. That's just the way it is. And you should lean on those talents and if you're the type of personnel that feels like you need to control everything, sometimes you need to step back a little bit. My wife is really, really good at doing accounting and watching money and knowing if the money's there and numbers and all that stuff. And she's really good at it. So I know that she's better at that than me. So that is her area. That's what she does. My thing is more marketing. It's more coming up with ideas and products and that type of thing. And she allows me to do that. Also understand that if one of you works for the other one, that does not extend to your personal life. Okay, so if you're the boss, if the wife's the boss and the husband has to work for the wife and she tells him what to do all day long, when they get off work, she should stop doing that because that's not the time to do it. Private life and business life are separate. And you both should really have this conversation about that and say, hey, this is a business thing. I don't want to offend you, but this is what we need to do and handle it in that manner. And then when you get off work, you're not in that position anymore, okay? You don't boss the other person. You don't tell the other person what to do. That could cause problems. Number three, get a room, okay? If you can get a room, that's great. If you can have a separate room to work, that's great. You need to establish those boundaries because if you're sitting in your lounge chair all day and you're watching TV and then you decide to do some work and then you go back to watching TV, you're not gonna be that productive. This is my home office right here that you see right now. And when I'm in here, I'm certainly not watching TV shows. I don't come in here to watch TV. I don't come in here to play or do games or anything. I come in here to work. So I know when I'm in this room, there's nothing else to do but work. That's how it's set up. My wife also has an office in the house. She doesn't go in there to watch her TV shows. She goes to the living room to watch TV shows or in the bedroom, but she uses her office for an office and she knows when she's at that desk, she's there working. So make sure you set those boundaries up front, especially if you have to work together side by side, which can be even more difficult. I've done it, we've done it, but it is more difficult because you don't have your own space. So if you can get your own space, do it. I understand that all of you can do that, but if you can, hey, it's a real help. Number four, use safe words. Now we don't really have to do this, but I've seen couples do this. I know it's difficult. Maybe one person is, I don't know, whistling all day and the other person can't handle the person whistling all day. You need to have a safe word. It can be something along the lines of, okay, thank you. And that lets the other person know that they need to stop whatever they're doing, that they're irritating them. And set this up in advance, say it's not offensive, I don't wanna offend you, I don't wanna make you feel bad or anything, but some things do bother me. And if you have a safe word like that, the other person will know and then go, okay, I'll stop doing that, I get it, that bothers you. Number five, engage in conversation. Conversation is so very important that you communicate what each one of you is feeling. And you kinda need to take breaks away from work too, especially if you're working all day long together. I know during the pandemic when we were quarantined, and you know, I am right now actually, but you may be watching this at a later date, we always took time out for lunch, rarely would I eat at my desk. In fact, I never did, I think she did a few times, but we would sit down with a TV tray and turn on the TV and watch a show and relax and work was over with for that moment. Or we would go out to lunch when we could during the pandemic, couldn't do it, but we would go out to lunch, have a nice lunch somewhere and just, you know, get some away time from our desk and our work. It's good to take a break like that during the day. So have that conversation, engaging conversation and understand that different people work better in different environments. So try to pick that environment that you wanna work in and make sure you communicate that. Number six kinda flies in the face of the last thing I just said because number six is giving each other downtime. I know you wanna communicate and maybe you wanna talk to your spouse all day long, but maybe they don't want that, maybe that interrupts their work. So give each other some downtime where you leave the other person alone, let them get their stuff done if you can. If you're talking about work, that makes sense, but if you're interrupting constantly with videos or things you wanna show or Facebook or something like that, that can become annoying. So make sure you don't do that. I've been guilty of that a little bit as to where I wanna show or something or say, hey, look at this video or whatever. I try to do something like that now I wanna break instead of interrupting anything during the day. I'm probably more guilty of that than she is. She stays with her work a little bit more than I do. Number seven, stay on top of each other. Make sure you're actually working. It is very easy to be working at home and to not work at home. In other words, watch that show or start texting or surfing Facebook and you gotta keep each other in check. That's not the time for that. If you do that, you're gonna take away from your real work time and actually you're gonna hurt your income and maybe your relationship, especially if one of you is working and the other person's playing all day, then that's really not fair. So make sure that you stay on top of each other, you remind each other that this is work time and this is what we're gonna do now. Number eight, enjoy the closeness. You know, a lot of couples who don't work together may both be going off to jobs all day long and it may be stressful and hectic and all that and they don't even have the opportunity of spending the time with the person. They get very little time with them and they get home, maybe they have to take care of the kids at laundry and dinner, they don't even get a chance to speak to them. So sometimes it's nice just to sit back and realize that you have this opportunity to spend time with somebody that you care about so you should enjoy it and appreciate having that person around. Number nine, take a couple's retreat. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is take a trip, go somewhere, go to a concert, go to a movie, spend some time together away. If you just work and then you go into the living room and sit down and watch TV all night, you're really not getting any enjoyment. So what you have to do is plan a trip somewhere, maybe a weekend getaway. Maybe like I said, it's a concert, maybe it's a play, but plan some time away where it's not just work and then the living room and then work and then the living room. Plan some time away. Number 10, give compliments. Compliments matter, okay? So don't just work at home all the time, especially if you're working in the same business and one of you never compliments the other person, that person's gonna feel like they're not needed, they're gonna feel inferior or something along those lines. I have a pretty good self-confidence so I don't need it as much, but some people really do need that. And if you give that person compliment when they've done something good, it's gonna make them feel good, it's gonna make them wanna do more for you, it's gonna make them wanna do more in the business if they see that you're appreciating what they're doing. So those 10 things should really help you out. If you're working at home with a significant other, it's really important to go through this list, make sure you're checking them off. They're all super, super important to being productive and to getting along at home. It really is. But if you're able to do this, you really need to stop and realize how lucky you are that you can do this because so many couples will spend 30, 40, 50 years working outside the home and then when they do spend time together, they don't know how to act together, they don't know what to do because they've been gone all this time and they don't even really know the other person. So if you have the ability to do this, it's really cool, just make sure you set it up right, compliment each other, have a good time, enjoy it and work hard. If you've enjoyed this video, give me a thumbs up, make sure you subscribe below, hit that subscribe button down there and the bell, ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications and what that means is once I do one of these videos, I can actually notify you, you'll get a notification that I've done another one. You don't have to search for it and you don't miss out. You're in the front of the line, you're in the Fisher Family VIP Group that knows about this before anybody else. I also have a $97 course, it's an e-commerce course, you can get it absolutely free. All you have to do is click the link in the description there, click and learn, no credit card required, simple and easy. Thank you so much for watching this video. If you've got comments, put them below. 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