Do you want to love your business 5 years from now? (No matter what your family season is!) Do THIS.

You’re still holding onto a lot of the client onboarding support, repeatable operations tasks, DM templates whenever you’re social selling, and keeping the discussion moving during all the team meetings. 

(When really, you ought to train your OBM to do that for you.)

So what’s going to happen 9 months from now? 3 years from now?

What’s your resentment level going to be like THEN?

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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Transcript

This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about what you need to do if you want to love your business 5 years from now.

I know what you’re thinking – how can you guarantee my business is still in OPERATION 5 years from now in this economy, much less that I’ll be LOVING it?!

Listen – it’s all way simpler than you think.

If you want to love your business 5 years from now – pivots, program changes, and team personalities included – then all you’ve got to do is keep on delegating as you advance in your zone of genius.

As in, keep shedding the roles, tasks, offers, clients, and responsibilities that no longer NEED to be done by you – they only CAN be done by you.

But now you don’t have to.

• You have the customer service concierge to handle your company’s inbox (plus the clients-only one).
• You’ve got the executive VA who’s responsible for interfacing YOUR calendar with the rest of the teams’. (No more integrator brainstorming meetings scheduled for when you’re about ready to wind down from work! Plus no more guest interviews at random times of day that totally interrupt your workflow.)
• You’ve got an AMAZING social media VA who handles everything scheduling for you (and lets you know when she needs your next batch of reels by, to boot!).
• For that matter, you’ve got an as-needed copywriter just waiting in the wings for whenever you get the next sparky idea to remessage your twice-annual launch! (Gone are the days when it was just you and a web page to get all those launch assets up.)
• And you’ve even indulged in an actual, grown-up graphic designer (just to make sure your graphics don’t look like you threw something together in 30 seconds on Canva) – who knew?

But you’re still holding onto a lot of the client onboarding support; repeatable operations tasks; DM templates whenever you’re social selling; and keeping the discussion moving during all the team meetings. (When really, you ought to train your OBM to do that for you. You just haven’t got around to it.)

So what’s going to happen 9 months from now? 3 years?

If you’re toying with setting up a client onboarding and offboarding module for your signature program at THIS stage in business, what’s it going to be like when you’re 3 years down the road, with that much more experience under your belt, and dozens more clients or hundreds more students in your program?

What’s your resentment level going to be like THEN?

(A lot higher than you think.)

If you don’t keep on top of your delegating strategies NOW – when you’re just keeping abreast of the current responsibilities but haven’t got much more wiggle room to scale – pretty soon you’re going to want to burn down your business model ‘cause you’re just too tapped out to handle everything that’s still on your plate.

When that was a completely avoidable business burn down (or pivot) if you’d only kept handing off tasks as soon as you had capable subordinates to outsource them to.

(You know, kind of like kids and chores.)

Sure, you COULD wait till your son’s 15 before you teach him how to do his own laundry – but do you HAVE to?

No. He can do most everything (except adding the right amount of liquid soap from a full container) when he’s 7. Including programming the buttons, if he’s so inclined. 

Which means YOU have no excuse not to hand EVERYTHING off to him by the time he’s 9. Yes, he’s capable (and tall enough and old enough). 

So if HIS laundry is staying on YOUR list, you’ve got a problem – one that’s squarely in YOUR court.

Because YOU didn’t let go of it (and mentor him up in it) when you should have. 

(And no, that’s not too late to fix – nor is the business operations side of things. You’re just getting a later start with that integrator than you would have.)

Take me for an example – a couple years into my business, I was getting pretty competent at all the social media and scheduling VA level tasks. In fact, I was getting bored with them.

And that boredom was just a quick step away from resentment – resentment that I, with everything I knew by then, wasn’t able to just hand that “schedule weekly broadcast” task off to my imaginary VA and move on to scripting podcast episodes and serving clients.

But you know WHY I didn’t have that VA? Because I hadn’t given myself permission to. I’d been listening to the “I made it to multi-6-figures before I hired help, and you can, too!” types.

Which is NOT what a healthily scaling, actively mothering, hard working mompreneur needs to hear.

No, you need the opposite – PERMISSION.

Permission to get rid of all the tasks you hate (yes, if they’re business critical, this means hiring someone to take care of them), permission to offload the “I know how to do this” every week schedule items (that are so simple practically anybody could do them), permission even to outsource the “takes me almost no time at all” (but not really in your highest zone of service, either) to-do’s for your program delivery to a high-level, competent subordinate. 

Whom you train up to this level over the course of a few months. And then never have to worry about that aspect of client care or student management again.

THAT’S what you really need to love your business again as a mompreneur.

It’s the delegation side of things – the “I don’t have to do this anymore” side of things – and the “permission to outgrow work” side of things.

Aka, it’s learning how to give yourself FEWER tasks on your plate – to keep shrinking the “only I can do” CEO style tasks – and keep bumping UP your day-to-day enjoyment of team-running life. 

By getting someone ELSE to handle more and more of it for you.

Because your ultimate goal is to stay in your inspired zone of genius; make crazy big impacts in the lives of your clients; and delegate like crazy all the things you need to get there (like accurate bookkeeping and customer inbox answering).

Sound like a plan? Feel excited by your 5-year company vision (and how little you’ll be doing that you dislike) yet?

Good. Because it’s time to get you working way fewer hours NOW – not 5 years from now – and the secret to doing THAT is going to be delegation. (Which, by the way, is exactly what I’m teaching you in my work-from-home moms life balancing program – the outsourcing chops you need to make this work. And work well.)

What do you say – time to get chopping (that to-do list), so you can save more energy for mom-ing?