4 Things You're Doing That Keep You Stuck in the Weeds

If everything in your business runs through you, you don't own a business. You own a job that owns you.

Most owners aren't stuck because the work is too hard. They're stuck because they've made themselves the bottleneck, and they're usually the last one to see it. The skills that built the business are now the ceiling on it, and delegation only works when you've actually defined the standard first.

In this episode, we break down the four things keeping owners stuck in the weeds:

You keep decisions that should have a protocol

You hand off tasks without defining the standard

You confuse being needed with being valuable

You haven't built anyone up to replace yourself

The challenge: pick one recurring thing only you do, and write the standard for it this week. A defined task is a delegable task.

Exodus 18 reminds us that sustainable leadership is shared leadership. Moses didn't fail by asking for help. He would have failed by refusing it.

The goal was never to do it all. The goal was to build something that doesn't need you in every room.