(Cont'd)

I started looking for activities I could hand off. I made requests. I turned down a request.

Today, I took more of my own advice and started creating more systems, processes and scripts. I looked at all that was on my plate and asked myself, “What activities will be the highest and best use of my time?” The answer seemed to be “Serving existing clients well and finding new ones whose needs match my skills and passions.”

I’m now in constant search recurring processes that can be automated, simplified or systematized. I devoted time to training so that someone else could do some things I had previously done to free me up to pursue those ‘highest and best use’ activities. I’ve become a maniac about asking for and receiving support! One of the high points of my day was after asking someone else to work on a project that had been rummaging around in my brain for several weeks. I dropped the project off and went to lead a short workshop. When I got back to my office, the completed project was in my email in-basket!

I had not felt such relief and gratitude in a while! Now I’m hooked. I will keep training myself to look for my ‘highest and best use’ activities and will find people who are skilled in everything else to keep me moving forward.

Delegation is one of the highest forms of respect. Holding on to work is an act of arrogance and worse, self-sabotage. I challenge you to look around and discover all the people around you who as just waiting to be asked to support you. Then LET THEM!!!!