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Many of these things can be done at the same time. For instance, running a charity marathon with your spouse can check the volunteer, pursue a passion, socialize, network, spend time with family, exercise, avoid chores, and sporting activities boxes at once - that's 8 out of 14. Also - these are successful people. They are rich enough to outsource chores.

Some people do not sleep. I mean, literally, reading about somebody's working day: "getting up at 4..."

As Bart Simpson used to say, there should only be one seven o'clock in the day.

You can get a lot of chores done by doing 15 min every day. So instead of spending Saturday on the clean-up of the century, you can do laundry one day, vacuum another day, and weed the garden on the third one. I do not think you can avoid chores altogether unless you have a maid, a cook, and a gardener though.

Behind every successful male avoiding chores on the weekend, there stands a woman who'd like to smack him.

Bit puzzled as to how one networks and disconnects at the same time.

And I quite like puttering about and being inefficient at times:-p

Probably why I am not a "successful person"...thank goodness.

Well, are they succesful because that's what they're doing on the weekends, or can they do that on the weekends because they're succesful? My money's on the latter. Argh, there's so much rubbing me the wrong way about this. Life is too precious to waste on chores? Well, most people feel that way. Also, most of them don't have the luxury of acting that way! Volunteering in order to be "branded as a philanthropic person"? Yep, that's exactly what it's a bout. Nothing skeevy about that at all.

Having to work 60 hours a week is not 'success'.