I'm going to answer this with something my boss gave me as a process to use at work for prioritizing things and allocating inmportance: Most important, urgent, have to do - DO IT Can someone else do it for you? - DELEGATE IT Not that important, can wait? - DEFER IT No benefit to anyone, not important to you at all - DROP IT
And I have to say, parenting is a lot of knowing what is a DEFER and what is a DROP ;) And then DELEGATING what you can TO your child (pick up your own ties, make your own breakfast ... clean your own bathtub, feed the cats) to reduce your own unending lists. And then you wait it out until they get older and it gets easier. Haha.
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Most important, urgent, have to do - DO IT
Can someone else do it for you? - DELEGATE IT
Not that important, can wait? - DEFER IT
No benefit to anyone, not important to you at all - DROP IT
And I have to say, parenting is a lot of knowing what is a DEFER and what is a DROP ;) And then DELEGATING what you can TO your child (pick up your own ties, make your own breakfast ... clean your own bathtub, feed the cats) to reduce your own unending lists. And then you wait it out until they get older and it gets easier. Haha.