It was to be the social event of my lifetime and I actually had a ticket to the ball. When my mother died, I had the resources to taylor it to my size and a current style.
My stepsisters did not want me to go, but my stepmother agreed to it. It was a week to the ball and I was ready to work on my dress after I finished my chores each day, then my stepmother came with an extra list of chaores that needed to be finished before I could go to the ball. It boiled down to having the estate in immaculate condition, as well as, performing my regular choirs and helping my stepsisters prepare for the ball. With a song in my heart and a dance in my step, I was able to get all the chores finished, but was unable to find time for my dress. I did my very best to work hard and fast, but was unsuccessful.
(Side note: For those of you that were wondering, I could not think of a story from my own life, so, I used Cinderella's dilemna.)
If I had been in charge, the solution would have to be easy, I would have used money from my father's estate to purchase a dress. It would not need to be lavish, but enough to turn heads in appreciation and not revulsion. The other change I would make, and of course my personal favorite, is the task of delegation. I would be assigning my stepsisters some chores because one of the reasons is "to free themselves up to do other tasks" and this will give me some extra time to finish my dress in time if I am not able to buy the dress I want (Portny, Mantel, Meredith, Shafer, Sutton, & Kramer, 2008). Of course, if I were truly in charge of the estate I would not be in the istuation of worrying about tayloring my old dress and cleaning the whole house.
References
Portny, S. E., Mantel, S. J., Meredith, J. R., Shafer, S. M., Sutton, M. M., & Kramer, B. E. (2008). Project management: Planning, scheduling, and controlling projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
