Domino: Pizza? Song by Van Morrison? Effect?
What is the cost of trying to do too much? That is a loaded question with many different out-comes that can create a domino effect of results.
Today more than ever, people are outsourcing in business and personally. On a personal level, maybe someone hires a housekeeper, or a gardener to cut their lawn. It saves time and effort. When a person has ADD, a typical challenge is trying to take on too much. Yes, we ADD’ers will beet ourselves up for not accomplishing everything we set out to do. We all need to take a step back and realize nobody can accomplish everything, or be perfect. We can’t take everything on and be successful. Heck, a Major League baseball player is doing a great job if his batting average is above .300. For those of you not familiar with baseball stats, a .300 batting average means a baseball player gets a hit 3 times in every 10 at bats. That’s a good deal…..getting paid millions to fail 7 out of every 10 attempts!!!
Getting back on track, when it comes to outsourcing in our own lives…..we need help. We don’t have to be perfect at everything. We must let go of that thought process and apply our focus and energy on a number of key tasks or objectives that are manageable. It’s OK to ask for help. It’s OK to delegate. It’s OK to say no. Why is the President of a company successful? Because successful Presidents will lean on a good support group or supporting cast to help in achieving their goals.
I had a great coaching session this week with my ADD Coach Pete Quily and much of this post was discussed. I took an awful lot from this particular session with Pete. Over the past few weeks I have learned a lot about not trying to do too much, about allowing people to assist and realizing it’s OK if I can’t do it all.
I’d rather succeed at a few things, than achieve mediocrity or perhaps fail by trying to do too many things. OK, time for Domino’s pizza accompanied by some classic Van Morrison…… “I said oohhhh oohhhh domino”.