Want to Do Less? Delegate!

Hi,

If you’ve been following you know I’m dedicating a series of newsletters to help you do less, seriously! In case you missed it – here is a quick primer on how to do less:

Step One – Clean Out – Fall Phase
Step Two – Stop Saying Yes and Practice No – Winter Phase

And because I love real-life examples: Practice Step Two to Deprogram your People Pleasing Mindset

For today’s newsletter, I want to dive into another step of part two – Delegating!

And because I know that you want to know what is next:
Step Three – Create and Support – Spring Phase
Step Four – Exponential Growth

So for the past two weeks, we have practiced saying “no” to ideas in our mind that create more stress and drama – think dining room invisible dog fence – yes, it’s a thing

Last week, we practiced saying “no” to everyone around us – this is fun and can get really, really fun after a glass of wine or two…But, there are some things that mockery and sarcasm can’t get you out of. So, you can either keep it on your plate or choose to delegate. Of course, not everything should be delegated. Only the things that don’t benefit our daily lives and could be better served elsewhere.

So, some things to keep are:

Eating, although protein shakes are my go-to when I don’t want to stop and eat

Flossing – because delegating that to someone else would get really awkward

Sleeping – I don’t need to explain that to you, do I?

Things to delegate:

Grocery Shopping – How amazing is it that we now have 1,001 ways to delegate grocery shopping, seriously? The penny dropped about a year ago when I went to the grocery store and looked around and realized that I was the only one there who didn’t work for Instacart. I was suddenly a table for one. Duh. Why am I not on the Instacart train?

Cleaning – I still enjoy a session of rage cleaning here and there but if you have more than two people in your household – cleaning should be outsourced. Or if you are a household of one but it truly sucks all joy from your life for a few days, hire someone. Zero guilt – permission granted

Fill in the blank – what is holding you back in life? What in your life can you NOT say no to? Figure this out – remember my example of Sandy (Blog one of April)? She needed her son picked up from school 45 minutes away so she left her 7 figure business every day in the middle of the day to do this – and she was a woman on the edge. Find these points of stress in your life and delegate. What’s that thing that you dread every single day but keep signing yourself up for?

If you have blind spots around this, sit down with your partner, BFF, and therapist and tell them what you need. Your partner may offer to do this task or may help you troubleshoot this. If you are emotionally too close to the problem (because often WE ARE THE PROBLEM), recruit someone to help you.

Ahhh . . . that feels better.

You don’t have to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. Find what lights you up, and keep it. Find what brings you down, and delegate.

Next blog – let’s start creating and building support since I know this is what you really want.
Warmly,
Nicole