The Exhausted Entrepreneur: What To Do When There’s Too Much To Do

You became an entrepreneur, or business owner, or solopreneur or freelancer because you had a talent and a passion for serving or creating in a certain way. Whether you love web design, or photography, or home organization, or wardrobe styling, this is the thing that keeps you energized.??

Building a business around your talent makes sense – you can offer it to appreciative clients and they’ll pay you (and thank you) for your services. It fulfills revenue goals as well as personal development.?

But it’s been several years since you began and now it seems that you can’t cross off all the tasks in your list day by day or even week after week.??

The Reality of Handling Everything Yourself?

Performing the service for the client is just one small part of the entire business owner experience. And that reality is hitting you hard, right in your face. Any company has many obligatory processes and tasks associated with it to sustain success. Falling behind on ordering supplies, planning, marketing, invoicing, selling, and following up is NOT an option.?

At some point, I’ll bet you declared “I didn’t sign up for this!” And you’d be right.?

Enter The Role Chart??

Unlike the old fashioned organization charts that outline WHO does what, a Role Chart will declare WHAT needs to get done. What are all the pieces of the business that must happen? Everything from ordering supplies to returning phone calls to reconciling the bank account to attending networking events, creating social media posts, EVERYTHING.?

If you were to place the name of the person responsible next to each and every task, does it look like this??

• Perform client service – me
• Invoice client – me?
• Collect client review – me?
• Networking events- me?
• Follow up with prospect – me?
• Social media posting- me?
• Order supplies- me?
• Return phone calls- me?
• Send email campaign- me?

Take a few minutes to pretend you suddenly were gifted a team of 100 people. What are all the tasks you can have them do??

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