NOT doing it all

The number one lesson for this week (and the lesson I keep learning over and over)--I can't do it all. No, it's better then that. I don't want to do it all. Even if I think I do in my most "control freak" moments, I really don't. The business I love to own is the one where things go smoothly, where I'm not overworked, and where I can really focus my attention on the things that I'm good at, the things that energize me and the things that create success for my business.

It's easy to get "too busy" to delegate, or "too busy" to find the people to delegate to, but the end result is feeling too tight on time to run my business in the quality way that I want to. I'm learning that when I find myself thinking that I have too much on my plate, my first question to ask is, "Who can do some of this work?" I've started a running list of things I'm doing that I'm not enjoying. The realization that I don't have to be absolutely clear about how I will delegate them before I state that I want to is priceless. The next step will be arranging them so that I can hand them off to someone else. Just like many times in my solopreneur journey, I'm going to have confidence that if I just keep moving forward, taking the small steps as I get clear on them, the bigger "how" will continue to get clearer too. I feel lighter already :-)