Are you drowning in competing priorities? Is your to-do list too long and impossible to achieve? Do you feel close to burnout?
A common theme in my coaching this week is overwhelm. My clients are struggling to juggle the demands of work with the demands of home life. As a single mom building a business, I know how this feels. Cooking, cleaning, chauffeuring kids around town, and coaching all day sometimes takes more energy than I have to give.
What if you gave yourself permission to drop the ball on a few things?
Think about what matters most to you at home and work. Write it down. Are you doing things on a daily basis that ladder up to these goals?
Think about your village. Who can you recruit to take on secondary tasks, so you can focus on what matters most? List family members, coworkers, neighbors, friends, and babysitters. How can they lend a hand to help you get everything done?
What are the to-dos in your life that you wish would just go away? The ones you do because you think you have to but that feel like such a chore. Give yourself permission to drop the ball on at least one of these things.
You can’t be perfect in every area of your life. By saying “yes” to everything and failing to delegate at work, or to ask for help at home, you run the serious risk of burnout or worse.
How can you prioritize your to-do list?
- Write down your to-do list for this week
- Put a circle around all the things you do very well with very little effort.
- Put a check mark next to all the things that only you can do.
- Put a star next to anything that ladders up to one of your primary work or home goals.
- Highlight the things that need to be done but could probably be done just as well by someone else.
- Highlight the things that would be an incredible learning opportunity for the people on your team.
- Anything that has a circle, a check mark, or a star stays on your list. These represent your highest and best use of time.
- All the remaining items either need to be delegated or dropped.
- Write your new list on another page.
How does your to-do list feel now? How would your life improve if you dropped the ball on some items?
Since having children, I’ve hired cleaners to do the deep cleaning at my house. This takes a huge wait off my shoulders and gives me more quality time with my loved ones.
By saying “no” to some things, you will have more energy to say “yes” to the things that really matter.
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Lots of love,
-Anna
