Real talk time: Are you trying to pick the exact right thing before you get started? Uh-huh. Here’s why that’s a waste of time. Why you’ll make far more progress in the same amount of time by starting messy – aka, trying anything.
Clarity comes from action. Let that sink in. Clarity comes from action. So if you really believed this, what would you do?
Let’s take the example of decluttering your schedule. You know you’ve got too many things going on as a family, but you’re not sure which one to cut first – all the extra church activities, or your kids’ sports practices, or maybe those extra errands & day outings you’ve been going on?
So you dither, and hum-haw, and nothing gets axed at all. Which means you keep living like this. All because you were afraid to make the “wrong” choice.
Whereas if you decided to take action, any action, to get things rolling? You’d slash one extracurricular and one church group, almost randomly, just to see what happens. What you find out. Does everyone love the new time freedom around not having to eat supper from 5:05 to 5:25pm to make it to group? Do your kids really miss their baseball coach?
Some things, you won’t know till you try it. All the theorizing in the world can’t predict what it actually FEELS like to not have to eat dinner in 20 minutes every Monday night. (Sure, you can guess, but it’s the experiential reality of it that matters to your family.)
You won’t make the “wrong” choice, so remove the pressure. What do you need to take action on today? Maybe it’s not your schedule; maybe it’s the fact that you have too much work on your plate and just need to outsource something.
Don’t make it wrong to pick any old thing to hand off to your new VA; just start somewhere. See if you like not having to upload show notes anymore. See if it didn’t make much of a difference. And, pro tip? If it didn’t make much of a difference, it’s probably because you have to do more. Delegate 5 things to her, not 1. Cut 3 family activities, not just the sports night. That sort of thing.
