The 'Team Work' : Part 1

How to Help Your Husband Make More Money So You Can Be A Stay-At-Home Mom
by Joanne Watson

Are finances holding you back from being home with your kids?

Discover How You Can Get The Life You Want!

Author Joanne Watson dreamed of full-time motherhood, but she and her husband - like many couples across America - felt they simply couldn't afford it on his salary alone. Instead of going back to work, she decided to help boost her husband's income - and tripled his earnings! Now Joanne shares her secrets and, whether your husband is a car mechanic or a CEO, shows you how to help him:

• Build his confidence
• Determine if he is currently underpaid
• Negotiate a raise or promotion
• Find high-paying job offers beyond the classifieds
• Start his own business (without a lot of money) and become a self -employed success
• Ace job interviews
• Make sure he keeps that better-paying job
• and much more!

Sometimes You Just Need More Money!

• Is financial stress taking a toll on your family?
• Does one income come up short, no matter how many coupons you clip or how much you slash your budget?
• Would a higher income for your husband allow you to spend more time with your kids?
• Do you think your husband is not getting the salary he deserves?
• Is money the deciding factor in whether you stay home-rather than your personal desires?
• Would having you at home be best for your entire family?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this guidebook is for you. In it, you will learn strategies that can help move your husband up the ladder, simplify his job search, and raise his earning power. Whether he spikes his income where he works now or moves on to greener pastures with a better, higher-paying job or a successful business of his own, How To Help Your Husband Make More Money, So You Can Be A Stay-At-Home Mom can make it possible for you to enjoy your own full-time career-raising your kids!

Chapter 1

Great Ideas Come Before Great Actions

The First Step

Is your secret (or not so secret) desire to be a stay at- home mom? If so, you are NOT alone. Many working mothers would prefer to stay home with their children, if their husband's income alone could support the family.

A growing number of women feel that it is better for children to have their mother at home, and many women are finding that needing to work full-time outside the home is a source of stress in their relationship with their husbands.

Despite these facts, many woman are working outside the home full-time in response to the need for more money to support the family.

The alternatives of trying to work from home or live on one paycheck that is too small aren't always workable or desirable. Working at home is not for everyone. Cutting back on expenses is not always a solution. Sometimes there are financial obligations that just have to be met, like medical expenses or mortgage payments.

If this is your situation, does it mean that you will just have to try to "make the best of it" and resign yourself to giving up your dream of being a stay-at-home mom? Absolutely not. There is another option, but it is a bit of a lost art.

In today's high-speed Internet-connected world, it is easier than ever to help your husband make more money, if you know how.

Often times, despite both parents working outside the home full-time, couples find that they are "just getting by" and are no closer to being able to realize their stay-at-home-mom goal. Meanwhile, neither parent is home with the children.

On the other hand, helping your husband to make more money is an approach that has helped many women to successfully afford to stay home with their families, while strengthening the family unit. But how do you help your husband make more money?

You do it by approaching your family's income using the Team Work concept. Using the Team Work concept, you form a team with your husband and take an active role in his success.

Team Work is about taking responsibility for your relationship, working together-yet in different ways, each part contributing to the whole and using a loving and supportive approach to building the life you want. Using Team Work will help build your income and your relationship.

Most men have the desire to make more money, and many of them share in the feeling that it is better for children to have a stay-at-home mom, and would like to make enough money for their wives to be home with the children if they could do so. And whether they will tell you or not, many men find that it is a source of personal frustration, as well as stress in their relationship with their wife, that their wife needs to work full-time outside the home to make ends meet.

However, without guidance on how to make enough money to be able to afford to have their wife stay home with the children, and for lack of a better alternative, the situation continues.

In How to Help Your Husband, you will be taken stepby- step through the actions that can give you the life you want, but the decision is up to you. Those precious years when your children are young will go by all too fast. Don't sit on the sidelines watching the life you want pass you by. The difference between looking back with regret and looking back with a sense of fulfillment starts with your decision. Without changing your mind, you will not change your circumstances.

The first step is for you and your husband to make the decision to work together as a team to turn your stay-at-home-mom goal into a reality.

The Strength of Team Work

One person working alone can accomplish a certain amount. Two working side by side can accomplish more. But two working as a team is the most effective way to accomplish your goals. Imagine a football team that was made up of all quarterbacks. Or a baseball team that was made up of all second basemen, with no one to cover third, etc. Yes, they would catch more balls thrown to second base than a team with only one second baseman, but there would be gaps in their coverage that would leave them vulnerable.

The same is true of the family. With both parents trying to "do it all" by working full-time outside the home and taking care of a family, they often say they can't do either as well as they would like. However, by using Team Work to improve your income, you will have the advantage and strength of a team. With your help and support, your husband's odds of success increase, making it much easier for him to provide the kind of income needed for your family to achieve its stay-at-home-mom goal. Using Team Work, each role in the family contributes to the success of all the other parts of the family. With Team Work, you can reclaim the family and its strength.

Use your resources in the most effective way possible by approaching your family's income with Team Work.

Copyright © 2001, 2003 by Joanne Watson

About the Author

Joanne Watson is a stay-at-home mom with three children. Thanks to the principles outlined in this book, her husband is now a top executive at a successful hi-tech company.