You’re just not that important, so why not be more effective?

As many of you know I just got back from a great weeks break in Devon, UK. It was so refreshing (after the initial anxiety) to put the out of office on and stash my phone and social media away.

After the wonderful week away, I sat down at my desk to catch up on my emails and socials with some trepidation. Wondering how many things, issues, problems and opportunities I would come back to. When I opened my email accounts, yes I have 5, don’t ask why! I was shocked at the amount of unopened and unread mail, pages and pages of it.

However, when I took a breath and began to work through it, what I noticed was that nearly all of it was junk, yes just good old fashioned junk mail. And quite honestly there was little to nothing that needed my attention.

Which got me thinking, am I really that important? Or have I worked hard to create the right infrastructure? You see in the short time leading up to our holiday and to date we took on a new team member, reintroduced another, started two other companies/projects and completed on another rental property. You might think, how on earth do I have time for all of that, alongside busy practice, and one on one coaching.

The answer is quite simple, I don’t!

You really are not that important; you are however in a great position to find and empower important people and projects.

And here is how you do it, my 3 T’s to making it happen.

1.       Trust
You have to learn to trust others, to relinquish control and hand over accountability to others. This is tough, especially when we have high standards, but until you learn to trust and delegate tasks to others, your time will always be short, and you simply will NOT be able to ‘do it all’.

2.       Team
Piggybacking right on trust, is team. To really be able to trust you have to find and hire and create great opportunities for your team. Someone once said, “are you building a business or creating jobs”. There is a big difference, to just create jobs gives no growth and no opportunity but to build a business requires a team and you placing trust in them leading to opportunity and growth.

3.       Time

Once you have learned to trust and found the team, there really is only one aspect left. That is time. All projects take time, simply working with a team will mean waiting for individuals with skill sets you don’t have to complete their portion of the project, that simply requires time.

If you can master these three key areas then you can master your business, and your projects, all while keeping time for you to enjoy your life and your family.

With love

Tom