Automate

The larger the task or more frequently you perform it, the greater the impact of finding ways to automate as much of it as you can.

If you do one load of laundry every two weeks, then the benefit of any improvements in efficiency is pretty small. You’re probably fine doing it the way you’re doing it. But if you do four loads of laundry per day because you have a particularly large and messy family, then it’s absolutely worth it to find ways to improve that system.

“Automate” can mean a lot of things. It can mean finding ways to save labor via technology, but it can also mean delegation or outsourcing. For instance, if you actually were doing four loads of laundry per day, it would almost certainly be worthwhile to hire a laundry service and then do something more productive with the enormous amount of time you’d save.

Your own mental and physical effort can only stretch so far, and you can’t make more hours in the day. If you want to scale, automation is the key that unlocks your cage. Invest the time to look for solutions.