Your 2026 Growth Will Come From Better Systems, Not More Effort

Growth doesn’t come from working longer hours; it comes from building a business that doesn’t grind to a halt when everything waits for you. We walk through a practical shift from hustle to systems, showing how to document the processes inside your head, hand routine tasks to the right place, and protect your capacity with clear boundaries that clients and teammates respect.

We start by expanding what delegation means. It’s not only contractors and VAs; it’s also smart use of AI for brainstorming, first drafts, summaries, and structured templates that speed execution without diluting quality. From there, we run a quick systems audit: identify weekly repeaters, define “done,” and stop reinventing the wheel. Then we take a hard look at the tool stack with a simple rule—if you pay for software you don’t use, cancel it. Choose a project manager or workflow tool that fits your brain now, pair it with a weekly review ritual, and create a short queue of high-impact tasks so momentum becomes automatic.

With operations steadier, we tackle boundaries and capacity. We set expectations for availability, response times, and access, and we put those norms into onboarding and agreements to remove the awkwardness later. We examine relationships—clients, partners, and platforms—through a single question: does this drain us or fill our cup? That lens makes it easier to say no to misaligned summits, sponsorships, or collaborations and yes to work that matches our goals. The result is less overwhelm, more alignment, and the energy to sustain strategies long enough to see them work.

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Chapters

• 0:00 From Finances To Systems
• 0:18 Delegation Beyond Hiring Humans
• 0:40 Stop Reinventing The Wheel
• 0:53 Last-Minute Systems Audit
• 2:08 Cancel Tools That Don’t Work
• 2:08 Relationships, Boundaries, Capacity Check
• 2:18 Automate And Delegate For Q1
• 3:20 Define Access And Availability
• 3:52 Align Commitments With Your Goals
• 4:52 Reduce Overwhelm, Protect Energy

Transcript

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All right, yesterday we took a look at making sure that your finances were in order for your business as well as your content and offer. And today we're gonna really take a deep dive into your systems, the structure, and making sure that you are delegating things. And like I talked about in Insiders, delegation doesn't only have to do with having a 1099 contractor within your business or a VA or an employee. It also has to do with being able to delegate what's going to AI. What are you using AI for? How are you helping it brainstorm? Really start thinking about what is going to help you the best. Your 2026 growth is going to require better systems, not more effort. We do not want to feel like we are reinventing the wheel every time that we start to try to do something. So here's the last-minute systems check that I want you to do. What still lives only in your head that no one else knows about? What tasks are you specifically repeating weekly? And where are you the bottleneck? We talked a lot about this in Insiders. This idea that a project or a task cannot be finished until it gets past you. And that is a problem. It's something that we need to figure out how do we make it so that you are not the bottleneck. So the actions that you're going to need to take to make these things flow more evenly is to document one or two core processes that you are doing. I want you to make sure that if there is software that you are using that you are not using, cancel it. Don't you continue to use it if it's not working? If you're in Trello or if you're in any other system management tool that you're not using because it's not working for you and your business, cancel it. And I want you to find something that does work better for you. And I want you to decide what must be automated and what can you actually delegate in Q1 that prior to you were not delegating. Now, this easily flows right into our second part of looking at our relationships, our boundaries, and just doing an overall capacity check. Because once we start talking about delegating, we have to be able to have this growth without boundaries to lead to burnout. So by being able to have the structure and the systems that you're going to then delegate out to others, there needs to be boundaries in place in order for that to happen. So your first question that I want you to ask yourself is what am I not available for in 2026? What is it that you cannot do that is too overwhelming for you? You've spent too much time on it, it's not giving you the results. And what level of access do I want in my business? And that can be level of access to you by clients or level of access to teammates, to employees, to contractor VAs in your business. So what is that going to look like? Because when you are actually looking at the relationships that you have within your business, whether it is clients, partnerships, or platforms, you need to determine what's draining you and what's filling your cup. Because we want more of the relationships that are filling our cup than those that are draining you. And how can you put boundaries in place for the ones that are draining you? So is there a specific client that doesn't understand that you are not available after 5 p.m. Eastern? Or do they do specific clients feel like they have access to you 24-7 via email and expect a reply right away? These are things that you have to be able to put boundaries in place so that it doesn't end up dreaming you. You also mean need to make sure that when you are looking at your commitments, that you commit to things that are in line with your business. You do not need to commit to everything that you are asked to do. It's great to say yes and to get out of your comfort zone, but if it's not in alignment with where you are trying to go with your business, then it does not make sense. Not out of alignment to where you are trying to go with your business. And this can be when you are dealing with partnerships with others, if you are doing sponsorships, if you are working in collaboration with someone for a summit or for a list swap. I really want you to start to make sure that when you agree to certain things, that you are making sure it is in line with where you are trying to go within your business. As we continue to do this, it is more likely that we are going to feel less overwhelmed and we will feel more in alignment with our business and our goals so that we have the energy to continue to push through and try new strategies or continue to work on the strategies that are working. We're going to feel less exhaustion and more refreshed and happy in the business that we are running.