How To Tame Your To Do List

If you're like me, you have a to do list that rivals War and Peace in length. Not only that, your list seems to have a medusa like quality to it...every time you cross one thing off, two or three new things crop up in it's place.

It's a losing battle.

Or is it?

There's one item that when added to the top of any to do list, makes the whole thing easier to conquer.

1. DELEGATE!!!

There you have it. Three little syllables that will change your life.

So go ahead. Write down everything you need to do. Prioritize your list in order of importance. Then, IN SHARPIE, write at the very top, DELEGATE!!!! Go back through your list with a highlighter and mark the items that someone else feasibly could do.


For example...how much time do you spend driving back and forth to the dry cleaner? Finding parking, waiting in line, and lugging the dry cleaning to and from the car is a massive pain in the you know what. Not to mention, it's a time waster. Especially when you consider the number of cleaners who offer a delivery service. Yes. They will drop off and pick up your dry cleaning right at your own front door.

Grocery stores also deliver, and you may also have a delivery plan associated with your prescription insurance. Take advantage of that! Pet meds also can be ordered online and delivered.

How about mobile car wash services? I have been trying to time errands at the mall with when my car is dirty because there is a car wash service in the parking lot that does a good job for the same money I'd spend at the place I'd have to sit and wait. Added bonus? I don't have to make like a shark to find parking. I just pull up, hand over my keys, and they wash it, park it, and have it all ready for me when I'm done running my errands.

Do you have kids? Do you pay allowance? Then they should be helping around the house. Assign some chores--it didn't kill you, it didn't kill me, and it won't kill our kids either. It's good for them actually.

I could go on and on, but I have a feeling if I delegate the task of coming up with more ideas to you, you'll handle it. See how that works?

Hope this helps make you feel more empowered to blast through your massive to do list. I also hope that when you get through that list, that you'll write at the bottom of it--IN SHARPIE--sit back, have a glass of wine and relax! You'll have time, so why not?