In your mind, you’ve already gotten help.
You’ve paid for the reasonable amount, your kids are doing some, and you can point to some things that are off your plate – so you feel like your current level should be enough – but it actually isn’t.
Here’s why.
Every time you tell yourself, “Oh, I’ll be good here – I just need a liiiitle more of the admin tasks off my plate,” you’re starting from the wrong perspective.
You’re shooting from “how little can I offload and still get my time/margin/energy back,” not “how much can I offload” and “how much white space can I get back”?
And those are gonna give you two very different answers.
The one treats it as a deficit. A failure, to be worked around. The fact that you need help and can’t do it all.
The other treats it as almost a game, a delegatable way of life, a “what else could we outsource here”? And that’s the sustainable, long-term way of doing this.
Because your 7-figure CEO self isn’t sitting around seeing how many of the content tasks she can hold onto – or which parts of your onboarding process she can still squeeze in and keep doing.
No, she’s out there seeing who she can add to her roster, or what role she can add someone else into, that would still provide a great experience for her clients or that reliable, consistent producing schedule for her listeners….
She’s not viewing help as a burden or something she ought to do less of!
And don’t tell me that this doesn’t apply ‘cause you’re at six figures and somebody told you you could do it all yourself till 300k. Nuh-uh.
What you’re supposed to be doing is training your brain to think like that next-level CEO in the first place!
Every time you hit a new level, the mindset required to stay successful at it ought to be partially familiar to you. Because you’ve been practicing it for so long at your current level.
Next level of me needs a video production team? Right on, I’m imagining myself with them and telling myself “when I have them…” and mentally earmarking all the content tasks that are gonna get shuffled off to them the moment they materialize. (Or, well, you hire them.)
Your next level’s a woman who’s got in-home support? Then you’re picturing how nice it’s gonna be to get to decide whether you want to do dropoff or school pickup, ‘cause you don’t have to do both, and every time you put another menu plan on the grocery pickup list, you’re thinking, “one day it won’t be me doing this anymore.”
Or wrapping the gifts for your kid’s class party and saying, “Yep – not doing this next year – it’ll be her handling it for me.” Whatever it is.
I want you to be having that running list with yourself – my next version of expansion is this and this and this kind of help.
Anticipate it. Expect it. Know it.
Then it’s familiar to you already when you hit the revenue growth that requires it, and the take-home profit that can pay for it – you’re not sitting there in mindset struggle land going, “But I’ve never had a house manager before, and I’m so uncomfortable letting her do all these tasks for me! Wail, oh no, my mental picture of my mom role is crumbling!”
Nope – ‘cause you practiced telling yourself, “I won’t have to do that.” “Next time I launch this, I’m gonna have a dedicated sales call person.” “Next time we go on vacation, I’m going to have the house manager prep all our groceries and laundry for us to be easier.”
The whole point is, you’ve got to get in the mindset of “growth equals outsourcing,” so what else can I see in the future that’s gonna be easy, natural, simple to get off my plate?
Think ahead!
You’re good at thinking ahead. You’re already forecasting revenue and client retention and content engagement and all that good stuff.
Just do this over here, too – if my client load 2x’d, what 3 tasks would I immediately take off my plate? And then start from there.
Building your “to be delegated” list. I always have a list like this running in the back of my head.
And if I don’t, that’s when I spend way too long doing all the cooking or all the laundry or all the deep cleaning when I could’ve been paying my kids to do that for me. (Personal example here.)
So even if you’re not in the position to hire out left, right, and center, I want you to look for all the ways you could get somebody else to handle this for you. Remember, rejiggering your chore charts and preteen allowances is a perfectly reasonable way of handling this!
And yeah, you can use AI to count as one of your business delegatables if it’s handling your content distribution for you, and things like that – by all means.
The point is, you better have it integrated into your workflow so that it’s so easy you don’t ever skip it and take it back onto your plate.
Do you see how radically different this kind of “how much more can I outsource” thinking is? How your delegating becomes an asset, not a failure, when you see it through this lens?
‘Cause that’s the mindset that’s gonna free things up for you.
I can tell you all the kids’ ages and stages I’ve lived through. I can hand you charts and spreadsheets and cute little flow charts of “if this, delegate that” all day long.
But none of it’s going to make a particle of difference if you’re still sitting there, hearing everything I’ve said about outsourcing, and filtering it through a little card that says “yes, but if I do that, it’s a failure.”
“If I have to offload that, I’m not being a good mom.”
“If I can’t do that part of my business, I don’t have it together.”
Please. Listen to me – it’s your mindset around whether or not you deserve help with the chores, with the admin, with the clients, with anything that’s going to make or break your ability to outsource/hire/finally clear your plate and keep it clear – not just hire the nanny and take back a bunch of piddly stuff to make you feel better about having her there.
That’s going to shoot your business capacity and your “good mom or not” mindset in the foot – both feet, even – and make you wonder why you’re always handicapping yourself and like limping to your next revenue goal in business….
Yeah, it’s because you shot yourself in your own foot. That’s why you’re limping, not running there.
You did this. Which means it’s totally preventable – you just have to do the mindset clearout work to make yourself able to actually use the support.
And don’t forget to take an actual hard pass through your current family setup as well as your business – you probably know your company’s backend like the back of your hand, but what all have you gotten used to in your home life that you don’t actually need to be doing?
What’ve you just assumed was the most delegated level, but it’s been at least 3 years, and everyone’s stages have shifted and you could actually get a lot more help here?
Don’t assume things on either side of your life – make a point to re-evaluate every year (or at least every 2 years, when you’ve got kids) – they change so fast – and see what’s new here that you could be outsourcing, i.e., getting off your plate.
‘Cause that’s fundamentally what it’s about – not making you the magic princess who’s sitting up there with nothing else to do, but clearing your calendar of obligations and responsibilities that don’t need to be handled by you anymore….
So that you can pour into and double down on that unique zone of genius you have, and are using with your clients, in your programs….
That’s what we’re delegating toward. To you multiplying the available time and white space and talent you have to pour into those programs.
Not to stay good at Canva and all the little tech hookups and everything…. To grow your impact and see what God has for you for your next level.
In fact, let’s go to Him right now and talk to Him about it.
Lord, we come to You today, just so thankful for this business and these kids that You’ve given us. It’s really a privilege to be their mom, to be able to serve our clients, our students, our employees like this. But we wanna ask for more, God – what You have for our next level. ‘Cause we know as entrepreneurs that there’s always a next level. But what we don’t know is exactly what it’s gonna look like, or whether You’re going to sideways us a little here, and pivot us in a new direction for this business. We don’t know – but You do. So Lord, would you show her today, just a little glimpse of what that next version’s going to entail. A tiny bit of what she needs to prep for, what she can look forward to, what she’s going to be praising You about 2 years down the road. 8 months away from this. Whatever Your timing is. Lord, would You prepare her, and comfort her, and sustain her, as You expand her into this new level? Grow her brain and her thinking and her IP and her capability for this new CEO future of herself? And right along with that, Lord, would You supernaturally show her all the areas You’re going to put a team around her in this vision. All the areas where she’s not got support right now, and needs to hire/ask/be open for some. Because Your yoke is easy, and Your burden is light, and You never called her to do all this herself. So show her where the outsourcing is – one more hire she needs to make, even to free her up to move into all this, Lord – show her exactly what needs to happen before You can expand her into this. Because You are the grower of her company. And it’s in Your Name and for Your sake that we pray, amen.
