I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record

hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.

The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.

Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to divide and conquer.

Streamline household and family tasks by deciding once who handles whole areas of responsibility.

Then you can do your jobs as you best see fit, and you can stop worrying about other people's

fears of influence.

Maintaining a home and raising a family are huge jobs that encompass myriad responsibilities,

lawn care, home maintenance, cooking, grocery shopping, cleaning, checkups, and the like

for you and your kids, managing children's special needs or therapies, pet care, birthday

gifts and celebrations, car maintenance, financial management, arranging child care either full

time or after school and in the summers, keeping up with what's happening in your neighborhood

or your religious community or your kids' schools, troubleshooting cable and internet

issues, taking out the trash and recycling.

I bet you could list at least a dozen more areas of ongoing responsibility.

We all feel like we are doing a lot, and when we do, it is easy to feel that maybe other

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