If you’re anything like me, you find yourself always behind in what you should accomplish. Do you go into the office every day, see a stack of purchase reqs that need to be ordered? emails that need a response? work orders that need to be scheduled? all the while, people keep stopping in your office to ask for help, or some other needs that require your immediate attention?
How do you ever get out of the shadow of the mountain? Now it’s easy to say “just ignore the little stuff”, but when you are responsible for the little stuff, you can ignore it. You might be able to delegate some of it, but then you have to find the person and the time to train them to do it. So where are you supposed to get that time from?
Well, your only real option sometimes is to make the time. But how do you make the time when you are already working 60 hours, the family never sees you, and you are still falling behind?
Now, more people is rarely an option in our age of “less is more”. You need to leverage all your people as best as you can. That means you may need to let some things slide for a couple hours, spend the time training someone else to do the small things. Delegation is your only hope. No one person can do it all. Take advantage of the skills of the people around you. It will cost you some time at the front end, but give you a lot back in the long run.
Thanks for reading,
Mike