Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is that you don't have to do everything yourself,
Speaker 1: as long as you make sure it gets done. As
Speaker 1: long as you work within any budget constraints, you can
Speaker 1: use all the resources available to you to fulfill your responsibilities.
Speaker 1: Back when people had potlock parties, I know of one
Speaker 1: savvy woman who responded to the inevitable question, oh did
Speaker 1: you make that? With I made it happen. I love
Speaker 1: that if she promised to bring a pie, she did
Speaker 1: not promise that the pie would be homemade. She simply
Speaker 1: promised to make a pie happen, and that she most
Speaker 1: certainly did. Similarly, by shifting our focus from what we
Speaker 1: personally need to do to what we need to get done,
Speaker 1: we can alleviate a little pressure and give ourselves some
Speaker 1: freedom and how we fulfill our responsibilities. So, if dinner
Speaker 1: is your responsibility in your household, that doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: have to cook from scratch every night. It means you
Speaker 1: get dinner on the table. Some days it will be
Speaker 1: a homemade feast, and some nights it might be a
Speaker 1: rotisserie chicken in a bagged salad grab from the supermarket
Speaker 1: on the way home. No, you didn't exactly make dinner,
Speaker 1: but you made dinner happen. I think we are more
Speaker 1: okay with this concept at work. No one is under
Speaker 1: any delusion that the executive who presents a big report
Speaker 1: did all the work herself. It is understood that while
Speaker 1: she didn't make all of those findings personally, she made
Speaker 1: them all happen. She did her part, which was making
Speaker 1: sure that the big report was delivered. She did indeed
Speaker 1: do the work she was responsible for doing, even if
Speaker 1: other people did a lot of it too. But we
Speaker 1: sometimes feel more conflicted about this in our personal lives,
Speaker 1: and partly that's for financial reasons. Our executive in the
Speaker 1: previous example probably works for a big company where people
Speaker 1: are employed to help her. Households operate under different constraints,
Speaker 1: but we might have more leeway than we think. If
Speaker 1: you set a budget for food and then you aim
Speaker 1: to work within that budget, well you can make choices.
Speaker 1: That means that if you eat leftovers one night, well
Speaker 1: some other night there's extra funds for a pre made dinner.
Speaker 1: Or maybe you have a very cheap omelet based dinner
Speaker 1: one night, and voila, you've bought yourself some space for
Speaker 1: takeout on another evening. It still works. You didn't make it,
Speaker 1: but you made it happen. Being responsible for something does
Speaker 1: not always mean having to do all of it yourself.
Speaker 1: If you take responsibility for seeing that the task gets
Speaker 1: done well, then you have done your part and this
Speaker 1: can leave you with the time and mental bandwidth to
Speaker 1: do the things that only you can do, and that
Speaker 1: is a big win. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to hear from you.
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