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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to assign yourself one task beyond life maintenance each weekend.
When you assign yourself one task, it's more likely to happen.
And then you can move on to something else.
I am sure you, like many of us, have all kinds of ongoing personal projects.
You want to get curtains for the guest room.
You want to clean out a space in the garage for a workbench.
You want to empty out those boxes that have been sitting in the living room for a year after your move and find the floor of the laundry room under the pile of sheets you are not sure if you want to save or not.
Okay, that last one is me.
Often these lists of personal tasks wind up quite long.
You tell yourself you will get to them on the weekend.
But then, the weekend has its usual amount of kid stuff and basic life maintenance like groceries and laundry.
Plus, you want to relax.
All the tasks you could do seem overwhelming, and you either feel like you spend all your time doing them, but aren't sure what you've accomplished, or you do nothing.
Why bother? It just feels like too much.
But there is another approach.
assign yourself one task beyond life maintenance per weekend so yes you do the laundry and get your groceries and anything else you do to make regular functioning possible then pull one task from your long list and focus on that just one figure out roughly how long it will take and when you can do it.
If all that is uncertain, decide on a certain quantity of time.
As in, I will spend two hours dealing with the boxes in the living room.
Then, do it. You might be surprised at what you can get through when you put all your energy into one thing instead of spreading it around six different projects.
Plus, you will feel less guilty.
You know that this weekend, you do the living room boxes.
You do not need to worry about anything else.
Next week, you can do the laundry room or clean out space in the garage or something along those lines.
There is a time to do those things.
Now is not that time.
And guess what? You will start to make it through your list.
I am happy to report that a few weekends ago, I emptied out four boxes in the living room.
Then the next weekend, I tackled the laundry room.
Next weekend, I will do the one big box in the foyer with all the stuff that seems to resist classification.
Bit by bit, it all gets done.
And I don't feel so overwhelmed.
So maybe think about this for your weekend task list too.
If you divvy up projects with someone else in your household, maybe each of you can take one assignment for the weekend.
This could be mutually agreed upon, so there are no bad feelings.
Why isn't so -and -so hanging those pictures?
Well, because this is the weekend for taking those bins of old toys to the donation center.
Next weekend is picture -hanging weekend.
It is all good. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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