“Many hands make light work,” was always my Mom’s mantra as she marshaled us kids into helping with a chore. Like many of those legendary sayings, it’s true, and I think more people or organizations would benefit from deploying the strategy.
Why not ask people to help you with the workload? Staples gets the idea as their new cart return encourages people to bring a cart in as well as return it to this corral. Restaurants expect people to self-bus their tables. I’ve also been at events where the audience was invited to bring their folding chair with them as they exited, saving massive amounts of time for the organizers. Carrying one chair is not unduly burdensome, but folding up hundreds of them compounds into a lot of work.
Think about how you can engage others to contribute one aspect of a bigger effort to lighten the load for everyone. Mother always knows best.
Thanks, Meg!
