For some reason, we often love to take everything on all by ourselves.  Well, maybe we don’t reeeeally love it, but we seem to do it anyway.  If you own your own business, it can be really be tempting to try to do everything yourself to save money.  But are you honestly the best at everything: marketing, IT issues, accounting, payroll, data entry and training? Maybe it’s time to give delegation a go!

What about at home, is there someone else who just might be capable of filling the dishwasher and unloading the dryer?  Are you suffering from, “If I don’t do it, no one else will?”  or maybe, “No one else can do it the way I do it?”  Give it up, let it go, give yourself a break!  No, they won’t do it the way you do it.  They may do it better, they may do it worse, but at least they will do it.

Whether at work or at home, find all the areas where you can get a helping hand; grab that hand and give it a good squeeze!  My IT guy was here for two hours this morning helping me set up a business newsletter.  Now it should be easy, but ‘should be’ wasn’t getting it done on my end.  After he left my handyman showed up to fix my doorbell and the caulking in my bathtubs.  Now I have learned how to plunge toilets, unclog J-traps and repair drywall, but there are still some things I just don’t know how to do.

So how to decide when you should hand over the keys and slide into the passenger seat?

1)  Delegate a task if someone else can do it better than you can.  You should use that time to concentrate on what you are best at.

2)  Delegate a task if someone else can do it at least as well as you can.  It will free up your time to work on something no one else can do for you.

3) Delegate a task if someone can make you more money by handling it.

4)  Delegate a task if someone else can do it faster than you can.

5)  Delegate a task if you can’t stand the task.  If accounting isn’t your thing, it will a drag.  Find someone who loves it!

Delegate at home & the office so you can do what you do best and let someone else do what they do best-a win, win!

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