Simplifying Your Life with D.A.D.

How many of you just put up with things thinking that you can't change things? Ooh, me. I do. Me too. Who am I? Who are we? My name's Mary. This is my best friend and business partner, Jill. And we are social emotional learning experts, which basically means we help people, people better. And we work in particular with teen and tween girls and their families. And we like to give them bite size, actionable advice so they don't get overwhelmed and they wind up not doing anything at all. So we're in a series around acronyms that we freely give out to these girls in order for them to be in action around things.

And today's acronym is dad. D a d. What does that stand for? It stands for delegate, automate, or delete. So for us, as business owners, we like to use this a ton in our day to day. Like, what are the tasks that, that we really like to do? What are the tasks that we don't like to do but we still need to do them? Column some things out and say, can I automate something like that? Am I able to delegate that to somebody else? Or does that thing even matter? Can I completely eliminate it? Delete it?

From the grand scheme of things we like to look at, I mean, whether you're in a job or a position, and you are, you're the person that wears a ton of hats, this will help you get clear and concise on what to do first and prioritize. I think that's the biggest thing with this acronym, is that it helps you prioritize what is urgent and important and what can potentially wait tomorrow or later in the week. I think a perfect example, because everyone deals with these, is emails. So whether you're a business owner, whether you work for somebody else, whether you're a mom, it doesn't matter.

You can automate or delegate your emails, right? And what does that look like? Who here also checks their emails 72 times a day? Right? Definitely. That is an issue for a lot of people, especially with the mass amount of notifications that we get on a daily basis. However, to automate, that looks like making sure certain emails that are coming into your inbox wind up in certain folders. You can label them very easily. You can also get in the habit of checking your email three times a day, once a week, like whatever works for you so you're not constantly distracted by the incoming notifications that emails bring you.

You can also delegate that task by hiring a Va, a virtual assistant. It's not like you have to hire an employee for your personal life, but somebody like a VA could cost you, you know, 5 hours a week at a very low rate. To help you get organized in those certain areas. I was just gonna say that it saves you time and energy. Mental energy. Mental energy. Because, truly, we wear this badge of honor around saying that we are good at multitasking, and all that means is that whatever it is that you're juggling, you're not doing it well.

You're distracted. You're distracted. You're not doing that one thing well because you're doing multiple things. Kind of mediocre. So this really supports you, you in figuring out, okay, what do I need to tackle first? What can I potentially download an app with my groceries? I do that a ton. It saves me a ton of time and energy so that I can focus what I want to work on. It gives me my full time and attention and energy doing that thing. Technology. What Jill just pointed out is an incredible servant and a terrible master.

So where can you dad your life today in order for things to start working for you and not work again against you? We're excited to hear how you take this acronym and put it into action in your life, and we'll see you on the next video, dad.