Over the last few days we’ve spent time finding our elephants and grabbing a fork in order to eat them. There is one final key to elephant eating success: pass round the forks.

If you’ve been here all week, you should by now have a to-do list with three items on it. You may even have a master to-do list which you siphon off tasks as and when you need to. However, where does it say that all of these things have to be done by you?

I’m all for delegation. Look again at your master list and put a little mark next to those tasks you could ask someone else to do for you. For example, I love to write and am pretty handy with a drill. Thanks to my husband’s input into his work’s fantasy football teams, I’m also pretty nifty at cutting people’s heads and adding them to different bodies

However, it is widely accepted that I am a pretty hopeless cook. I did a great range in baby puree but now my youngest is fast approaching three, those days are long gone. Therefore, my reputation in the kitchen is in tatters. My seven year old totally refuses to eat spaghetti bolognaise if I make it. She will only eat daddy’s bolognaise

If there are things on your list that are key to digesting that elephant but you’re actually not so hot at them, why struggle and take twice as long if it’s not nessesary? Learning new skills is wonderful. However, learning something badly and quickly is never the answer. Therefore, whereever possible, delegate!

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