She asked you to do one thing.
You handled it. That's the word you'd use. Handled. Found the faster way, the app, the guy, the reason it could wait until it fit next to something you were already doing.
A woman described her husband to a room of strangers this summer. Any task she gives him, she said, he finds a way to do efficiently. Then she defined efficiently. It usually means he finds a way to not do what she asked, and put it on her, or on an app, or on whatever else is nearby.
Read that as him for a second. Then read it as you.
He's not slacking. That's the part she can't get anyone to understand. He's good. The skill is real. It's just pointed at the task instead of into it.
You solved it. You didn't do it.
Those used to be the same thing. Somewhere on the way up they came apart, and the only person who noticed was the one still standing there with the thing in her hands.
The one thing:
Take the last small thing somebody at home asked you for. Not the big ones. The small one.
Say, to yourself, whether you did it or whether you solved it.
If the answer took a second, you already know which.
Josh
P.S. I finished my 30-day Ash Journal run on July 30. In public, one page a day, no edits, all thirty.
Five minutes. One prompt. One line of ash. The first seven days are free: truevitalyou.com/journal