Tip #2:
Eliminate, delegate, and streamline

In her scrapbooking newsletter Tasra Dawson encourages women to eliminate, delegate, and streamline their responsibilities.

Here’s Tasra’s Action Plan:

Create a chart of your roles and areas of responsibility. It might look like this: Wife, Mother, Employee, Housekeeper, Friend, Sister.

Under each role or area of responsibility, list the tasks that accompany that role. For instance, under housekeeper, you might have laundry, cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, etc.

DO NOT let this list overwhelm you. You're probably already overwhelmed, so let this list validate you. It validates that you are needed, that you are valuable, that you are legitimately busy and overwhelmed.

When your list is done, take a break. Make yourself a cup of tea or go grab a cup of coffee from Starbuck's. Whatever you need to do, give yourself at least 5 minutes to acknowledge all that you do on a daily and sometimes hourly basis to make the lives and worlds of those around you more happy, blessed, and harmonious. You matter!

Once you've acknowledged your contribution, look through your list objectively. Try to identify one activity in each area of responsibility that could be removed, delegated, or simplified.

Read Tip #1