March 15, 2025
I asked my client, "How much did you save by not hiring an assistant?"
"20,000," they replied.
"And how much would you have earned if all the work an assistant can do was taken care of, and you could focus only on your job?"
"At least 200,000."
So, effectively, you lost 180,000 by not hiring an assistant.
"I never thought about it this way."
This conversation happened during one of my coaching sessions this week.
What my client experienced is the same thing most business owners experience when we first talk.
They don't understand opportunity loss.
Being an entrepreneur means creating futures that haven’t happened yet and betting on outcomes that haven't happened yet too.
Where many people get stuck is in the idea that first X has to happen before they can do Y. First, I need to save up X amount before I can hire.
Sure, there is such a thing as hiring too early, and there is also such a thing as hiring too late.
As a business owner, the biggest bottleneck isn’t the software you use – it’s you.
It’s thinking you have to do it all yourself. It’s not knowing how to effectively train people. It’s running on the assumption that you lack knowledge, when in fact, you simply lack the courage to take the step and figure it out along the way.
When being the "hard worker" runs you, you get blind to the fact that most likely someone who is a skilled designer can do your website in 1 day, while it takes you 10. You think saving that 1,000 will be worth it, but you underestimate what you can do when you focus 10 days solely on selling your product.
You don't see how much could be possible if you were willing to let go of what defined your work so far.
I have been guilty of this many times, and I have seen what happens to a business when the owner finally realizes that there are other people who can do what they do faster and better. It wasn’t their own "specialness" but their inability to hire and train people that kept them stuck.
What got you here won’t get you there.
Being the one who can do it all only serves you for a while. If you can’t reinvent yourself as a leader, you will become the problem of your business.
So, have a look:
- Where are you operating on saving rather than opportunity?
- Where are you the bottleneck in your own business?
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