Is Your Spouse Decision Impaired?
Is Your Spouse Decision Impaired?
By Barbara Tallent
The vast quantities of information now available at our finger tips have made it even more difficult to make (or drive) a decision on home improvement projects. Throw the fact that the decision is about your home into the mix and it becomes not only difficult, but emotional as well.
Has this ever happened to you? You email a couple of choices for a product or service to your significant other - only to run across one more interesting website that you then email separately. Then you find three more. Have you ever been on the receiving end of this behavior? Often times it is five or six emails and they pile up in your inbox never to be found as a group again. Then you start to cringe when you see one more with a similar subject line.
It doesn t have to be this way. Once you start driving decisions rationally, you will be surprised at how people around you respond (both at work and at home). You can make it easy for them and easier on your self by just being a little more organized in presenting choices. Here are a few simple steps to help facilitate a decision:
1. Define the objective - If you don t agree on an objective, how can you ever agree on how you are going to satisfy the objective? Write it down some place that you can revisit it if necessary.
2. Research - Allocate some time to find products or services that meet your objective and spend an hour or so reading reviews, recommendations, and bookmarking appropriate sites.
3. Document - Which products/services come closest to meeting your objective and why? Write it down.
4. Eliminate - Don t burden someone with ten or fifteen choices. Pick your top three or four. If you want them to know that you did some thorough research, list the others that you considered and their reason for elimination.
5. Stop - At some point you need to stop adding to your list.
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6. Create urgency - Ask for a deadline. “If I give you my top three choices tomorrow, will you be able to evaluate it by Friday?”
That is it! Make your life easier by making your spouse s life easier. I personally use a digital binder to keep my choices and drive decisions. Take a look at my binder on choosing a landscaper for ideas: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=760 This binder can be emailed to my spouse, bookmarked, or dragged to my desktop.
Barbara Tallent is a co-found at JammerMedia who spends weekends renovating her home with her husband. She also maintains a website with resources for technology product marketing managers http://www.infrasystems.com and a website for people who want to remodel their fireplaces http://www.homebedazzle.com
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