424 - Defining Housework Part 2 - Tasks of Daily Living

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In November of 2020, I did a two part podcast on the four kinds of work in business (</span><a href= "https://organize365.com/podcast/kinds-of-work-1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">361</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">&</span> <a href= "https://organize365.com/podcast/kinds-of-work-2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">362</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">). It turns out, there are also four kinds of housework, and I introduced these in</span> <a href= "https://organize365.com/podcast/literature-review-research"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Podcast 418</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. There are many of these business concepts that also equate to our homes, we just don’t think of running our household like it is a business. We hear a lot about work/life balance as though these are two separate ways of getting things done. There are so many parallels between your day job and your home job. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few podcasts ago, I shared that Organize 365 is pursuing research about organization. One of the first challenges we faced is that we do not have a common vocabulary around work inside the house like we have for work in the workplace. As part of our research, we needed to define the words we were using in the survey questions. That meant, we needed to define housework. This is the second of a four part series that defines and explains the different kinds of work we all have to do inside of our homes. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I am sharing some details about a second kind of housework, tasks of daily living. This type of housework is a set of skills we all need to do or have done for us for our survival. Tasks of daily living are related to the</span> <a href= "https://www.ssa.gov/forms/ssa-3373-bk.pdf"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Social Security Disability</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">definition of disability and include things like grooming, grocery shopping and m