Imagine waking up Saturday after next on January 1st.
Maybe you’re refreshed or maybe you had a little too much champagne the night before.
But no matter how you’re physically feeling, you have two choices in how you’ll feel mentally.
Will you feel like you have a clean slate and 2021 has been wiped clean?
Or will you start 2022 lugging over baggage?
No matter what baggage your carrying (we all have some), the 4 D’s can help make sure you don’t drag it over into next year.
The 4 D’s
1. Delete – Marie Kondo your list. If something’s been on there since 2020, then delete it. If it hasn’t become a priority by now, it never will.
2. Delegate – Ask who not how. Can you hire the neighborhood kid to clean your gutters? Should you hire a dietician and a trainer instead of reading books and creating your own recipes? Look for ways to leverage labor.
3. Do – Complete anything that will take less than 15 minutes or MUST get done before January 1. And keep in mind done is better than perfect. (All of your Financial Zen Open Action Items fall in this category.)
4. Defer – Dead last is defer. If you can’t delete, delegate or do it in 15 minutes and it ABSOLUTELY HAS to get done – but not right now – then defer it. (Just be careful of “delete” items that you don’t want to let go of. If it will still be on your this list in 12 months, then it’s a “deleter”)
I for one will actively be working my list through the 4 D’s over the next 12 days.
I want to look at 2022 on January 1st like waking up in Tahoe and looking out the window onto a pristine winter scene of freshly fallen snow.
THAT’s the way to bring in the new year.
