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What can you delegate?

Many of us mompreneurs hold the title CEO: “Chief Everything Officer.” While this title certainly conveys a sense of independence and power, it also reflects one of the downsides of working for yourself: you do all the work all by yourself.

While it makes sense to start out this way, there comes a point where the biggest obstacle in the path to your business growth will be YOU. Talented multi-tasker that you are, you can’t perform all the business roles (president, sales director, marketing manager, book keeper, technician, clerk, etc.) and your various personal roles (wife, mother, chief domestic engineer, chauffer, cook, etc., etc.) the way they need to be performed. You’ll spread yourself too thin, and all the balls you have juggling in the air will begin to drop.

Take a moment and consider your various tasks and roles. Are you willing to ask for help? What difference would it make if you hired a housekeeper, or delegated dinner duty to your husband, or pawned off your contact management updates to a virtual assistant? What would you be able to accomplish?

You have significant money-making talents. Use them to their fullest in your business and get the success you desire. And those things that don’t make you money (or don’t make your day brighter)–find a way to get them off your plate.