30-Day Delegation Challenge

Today I’m kicking off a new 30-day challenge focused on delegation and outsourcing. I’ll be blogging about this experience along the way to share lessons, insights, and mistakes, although not necessarily daily. For 30 days in a row, I’ll work on delegating and outsourcing tasks (both personal and work-related) in some fashion. My specific commitment is to invest at least one hour per day on delegation and outsourcing activities. This could include brainstorming tasks to delegate, defining tasks, working through potential blocks and limiting beliefs, finding people to work with, testing and evaluating outsourcing services, assigning tasks, following up, and anything that could reasonably fall within the scope of this exploration. I won’t, however, count the time that I spend blogging about it or checking in with accountability partners. I may do more than an hour some days, but one hour is my daily minimum. This includes all 30 days, weekends too. There are other ways to do this challenge, such as outsourcing at least one task per day, but I think the time commitment approach makes sense because it gives me some flexibility in how I move the needle forward each day. I still feel accountable to action, but it doesn’t feel as forced and artificial as having to delegate something every single day (which could feel a bit random after a while). As long as I’m devoting at least 60 minutes to activities related to delegating and/or outsourcing, I&#...
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