Overcoming Blocks to Delegation

As the 30-day delegation challenge continues, I wanted to share some thoughts on overcoming limiting beliefs related to delegation and outsourcing. Last week I invited others who are doing this challenge with me to share their blocks in this area. What thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes hold us back when it comes to delegating and outsourcing? Here’s a summary of what people shared, paraphrased into one-liners: Fairness / assumptions about other people’s values It’s unfair to make someone else do tasks that I wouldn’t want to do myself. I’d feel bad outsourcing tasks to people in another country for low pay. People would be better off working on their own projects than on mine. People should be independent, not dependent on me. I don’t want to have power over other people. I only have enough work for part-time people, and people won’t want to work only part-time. It’s embarrassing to have someone clean my bathroom or do my laundry. Control No one will be as good at these tasks as I am. It’s important to me to stay in control. My way of doing things is too unique. I actually like doing laundry, grocery shopping, and other seemingly unimportant tasks. Some tasks just can’t be delegated. Trust It’s tough to find people I can trust. If I trust someone with access to my files, systems, bank accounts, passwords, admin access, etc. then they might screw me over. If I find someone who’s really good, they might eventually ...
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