Help wanted.

You could call it a comeback! After two years, two months, and four days, I am back to blogging. Two years? Really ma’am?!? I will start this post with blatant accountability. Why have I not blogged in over two years? Well, too many commitments.

Balancing a boutique and a thriving consulting business with multiple clients and family, friends, church, volunteer and other life commitments, my blog soon became last on my priorities list. Whether a business professional, student, mom, or all of the above, maintaining balance is a challenge we are all tasked with. Women take on so much. So how do Beyoncé and Serena do it? They’re rich, of course, but beyond that, they ask for and accept help.

Since my last post in 2017, I assembled a team of amazing people to help me with my businesses and ventures, including this blog. The idea that asking for help signifies weakness is a lie. Also we are all connected to each other. We’re created for relationship. I have learned that making your dreams come true requires help.

To lay the right foundation for fruitful help, you must change your mindset, know yourself and reassess your priorities.

1. Change Your Mindset
Accept that you are only one person. You don’t have to do it all! Realize that you are worthy of the luxury of receiving help from others and your world and schedule will open up. Until you decide to shift from the cliche 'do-it-all multitasker' mindset to a delegation mindset, you will continue to feel overwhelmed and ultimately burnout.

2. Know Yourself
What work energizes and drains you? Managing your time goes beyond your strengths, weaknesses and to-do lists. Ask yourself the following: which work zaps your energy and which work provides more energy? Which work leaves you feeling refreshed and ready to do more? Keep those activities. Which work leaves you feeling drained and ready for a nap? Consider delegating that work to someone with a more compatible energy profile.

3. Reassess Your Priorities
You may feel overwhelmed because you are simply doing too much. Write down your upcoming weekly tasks at the end of the week. Are these tasks directly aligned with your short and long term goals? Are you spending time doing tasks that are not essential to achieving your goals? Could these tasks be delegated to someone else? Assessing your priorities will allow you to identify time wasters and what can be delegated to someone else in order for you to best utilize life's most limited and rewarding resource, time. 


Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. – Ecclesiastes 4:9