#88 Delegate

When you have the courage and faith in delegating tasks to others, then you are a hundred steps ahead of everyone else.  If you ask your mom, she'll tell you that I'm a perfectionist by nature.  I'd spend hours and days on a project to make sure everything was right and perfect.   I would then review the final project over and over again until it's perfect.  When I worked on any patient, I would make sure every little detail got fixed just right, then double and triple checked, which often made me spent extra time with patients, which was a good thing, but made other patients waited longer than necessary.    Thankfully your dad learned about delegating tasks early on (a few years into it :) in his career, from the coaches we hired.

See, in my mind I always thought that "I can do it better myself, no one else will do it right, or I don't want to inconvenient others, or it’s faster to just do it myself."  I painfully learned that these were all just myths.  If you carefully select and hire the right person, train them well, empower them and trust them, and train them again, and then train them again, it will also save you time, spare you a great deal of stress, allow you to spend your time on other more important things, boost the overall productivity, allowing you to reach and exceed your goals in less time, with less effort, and with much less stress.

Aside from work, we also delegate "mundane" things that will help us to focus on the main things in our life: raising you, serving God, serving others, and fulfilling the bucket list together.   We delegate cleaning the bedrooms, the living room, the bathrooms, vacuuming the floor, dusting,  etc. to a housekeeper.  See, it would probably take a few hours to do all these, especially the dreaded and least fun one of all: cleaning the shower stall and toilets.  Sharon, our housekeeper comes just once or twice a month.  When she comes and does her magic, it's an amazing space to live in again.  In between her visits, we do our own mini cleaning of vacuuming, etc.  It greatly reduces the stress level in the house.  We have more time to spend with you  and time to do other fun things we enjoy doing together.

We also delegate lawncare, ironing of clothes, and a few other things to other people.  These people were very grateful that we're using their services.  We were even more grateful.  See, when you delegate, you employ people.  You make more time for more productivity in exchange for your resources (money) to people.

#11 Be Unrealistic

Sweethearts, realistic people are human beings afraid to dream large dreams because they fear disappointment.  Your mom and dad admire the unrealistic folks like Ford or Disney or Gandhi or Wright Brothers who chose to ignore what others called impossible or unrealistic.

Set big goals - and then make them ten times bigger.  It's amazing how God has helped us put our dreams and goals together. Abram and Sarai had to faithfully believe in unrealistic things (they were really old when God told them that he would be the Father of the nations, and she would be princess, giving birth to a child soon) before they could see it happen.

Parting of the Red Sea? Unrealistic. Jericho's wall came down after circling it seven times?  Unrealistic. Solomon's wisdom and wealth?   Unrealistic.   A transportation thingy without horses?  Unrealistic. Human flies in the air? Unrealistic.  Female AND black with networth over $1 billion? Unrealistic.

Only those who set big brave unrealistic dreams have the privilege to have unbelievable life.

People with great dreams in their heart are so mightily scared by their great dreams that they have to kneel down and pray to God to give them strength and resources so that these dreams become reality.