Are you holding on a little too tight to things that you don’t HAVE to do?

In speaking with the participants in my THRIVE Mastermind I’ve noticed many well-meaning business owners getting stuck in their businesses doing things that they think they should be doing or that they have ‘always done!’ Then they find themselves tired, overwhelmed, stressed and feeling like they have no time in their businesses for things that matter. 

My advice to them? These 3 easy steps:

1. Write yourself a STOP DOING list, instead of a TO DO list. Identify all of the things in your life that you no longer need to be doing.

2. Write out an instruction list; dot points of how to do that job for the new person who will now be doing it eg. Not you.

3. And now write out a list of all the things you can be doing in that free time you will have once this task has been passed over.

The idea is, that once you’ve identified the things that are: a) not in your zone of genius or b) you no longer enjoy, you’ll find it easier to pass them off to others and use that newly-discovered free time to do other things to actually grow your business (or you’ll have a bubble bath and feel great!). 

Some examples of things on my clients STOP DOING lists this week include:

• Building my website

• Refilling the office toilet paper

• Scheduling all of the social media posts

• Entering all of the new clients into the database

• Attending the new client meeting and answering the same basic questions that could have been answered if I had a good FAQ page on my website.

Any of these seem familiar to you? 

Next week, can you take something OFF your list? Delegate it to someone else and then use your time to do something really cool!