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On any given day, most of us dedicate time to our children, spouses, careers, friends, charities, churches, parents, siblings, clients, household activities, and, oh yeah, if there is a little extra time left in the day, ourselves. So why is it that only a select few of us can make it look easy… while so many look like they have been run over by a tractor trailer?
Why do they do this to themselves? Because all of their lives they have been told they have to multitask. They have heard the old mantra, "if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself" about a million times. And they don't want to appear inferior. Determine, Ditch, Delegate, Duplicate and Dominate When you start to evaluate every project or task that you THINK has to be done and done by you every day, you will soon find that the task should follow this process. Step #1) Determine: Very often we just "do" instead of methodically thinking about the task at hand. That is why the first step is to "determine". Determine if this is something that has to be done at all, done by you or done by someone else. Move to step #2 . . . Step #2) Ditch: Working moms - more than any other subset of people - have the hardest time with simply saying "no." Most are unable or unwilling to say that a task is not important enough for their time or anyone else's. Look: we all have the same 24 hours in a day - no more, no less. So why is it that we sometimes feel that we should accomplish 28 hours' worth of tasks in a single day?
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