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If You Can’t Stop, Simplify
If a straight no makes you feel uncomfortable, or if stopping an activity is not
possible, simplify instead.
One of the big-time sucks for Lisa Scheffler, a busy mom who is passionate

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One of the big-time sucks for Lisa Scheffler, a busy mom who is passionate
about goal setting, is home activities. Cooking meals and doing the laundry for
her family takes up a lot of time, but those are things she can’t cut. She can’t get
focused on a goal and say, “Hey, kids, we’re not going to be eating dinner this
week. Good luck foraging for sustenance. Don’t forget, most hipsters have pretty
good gardens full of superfoods.”
Instead she makes “simple meals that don’t take a lot of time.” And “laundry
gets clean but not folded and put away, so we’re a wrinkled family for a few
days right before a deadline.”
I love that idea. I can just see her kids all wrinkled at school and a teacher
saying, “What’s your mom working on this week?” And the kids know it’s a big
week when they see hot dogs on the table, or better yet, pizza rolls.
Fortunately, the world is more than happy to help you simplify. Staying with
the food example because most of us have to eat, grocery stores now allow you
to order online and pick up at the store. My wife buys 75 percent of the same
things every trip. During a stressful season, she could place an order from the
comfort of home, pull up, and have them place the groceries right into our trunk
without even getting out of the car.
Life is too complicated for us to just say no to everything. That’s fine. It’s
not realistic to think you can drop everything.
For situations where no isn’t an option, write a “simplify list” and identify
the wrinkled-shirt moments you’ll be all right with in your life.
You have some meals that could be simple.
You have some things that can wait.