How to Get Things Done

1. Eliminate- Don't love anything that can't love you back (It “loves” you if it brings you joy to look at it or if it helps you).

• Junk costs you time and energy to own.
•  Keep nothing that is not either useful or beautiful. 
• If it is not dirty, don't clean it. A 'lick and a promise' is often good enough.

2. Delegate- If someone else can do it almost as well as you can than assign it to them. This includes your children. If a child can do a job good enough assign that chore to them. It is the only way they will ever learn to do it better and it helps you.

3. Expedite- Use the right tools and methods. Professional window washers don't use newspapers, towels or Windex. They use squeegees and water with a teaspoon of dish soap. Find out what the pros use and buy that. It will be more efficient., save you time, money and energy.

• Store things where they will be used: plates by or in the dinning room, cooking utensils by the stove, towels in the bathroom, garden tools by the garden and baking supplies all in the same cupboard.

4. Don't Procrastinate- Do it now. Don't step over the pillow twelve times, pick it up the first time. Clean the stain immediately. If it will take you less than thirty seconds to put it up, do it now. A stitch in time will save nine.

5. Organize- Do as many things at once as you can.

• Do all your around town chores for the week at the same time, 
• Fold laundry while you wait for the water to boil, 
• Water the lawn while you write Aunt Matilda. 
• Make your bed while you wait for the web page to download.

Above all, think!
Use your head, not your time or back.