{"id":20751,"date":"2013-03-11T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/?p=20751"},"modified":"2013-03-11T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T09:00:41","slug":"more-of-what-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/more-of-what-you-love\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Do More of What You Love and Less of What You Don\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have a long-term delegation strategy? This is the secret to moving more into \u201cthe zone\u201d and getting out of those activities you don\u2019t enjoy or don\u2019t do well.<\/p>\n\n

Recently, I recorded two podcasts on the subject of delegation. The first<\/a> dealt with the principles of delegation. The second<\/a> suggested how you might delegate even if you don\u2019t have a staff.
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\nIn these podcasts I suggested the primary reason to delegate is that non-delegation doesn\u2019t scale. It is not sustainable. This is why so many people feel overworked, overwhelmed, and burned out.<\/p>\n

But there is an even more important reason to delegate:<\/p>\n

To enable you to focus on what you do best in order to maximize your impact.<\/em><\/p>\n

I touched on this at the end of the first podcast, but I want to elaborate here. I think this is something we all need to think through as leaders if we are going to be effective in our roles.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the way I think about it. I do some things well and some things not so well. The same is true for you. If you try to be the jack of all trades, you will likely be master of none.<\/p>\n

When I am operating in my strengths zone, I am happy and productive. The quality of my work goes up, and I increase my impact. Equally important, I leave space for my team members to make their greatest contributions.<\/p>\n

Conversely, when I don\u2019t do this, I am stressed and unproductive. I run out of margin. As a result, the quality of my work suffers. And, I deprive others of making their best contributions. They don\u2019t get the opportunity to express their strengths.<\/p>\n

If we are going to stay focused and become even more effective, we have to have a delegation strategy. Mine consists of three components.<\/p>\n

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  1. Identify your strengths.<\/strong> My greatest strengths are in writing, speaking, and being the spokesperson for my brand. It is, frankly, a very narrow range of activities. What are your strengths? If you had to limit these to two or three, what would they be?<\/li>\n
  2. Offload everything else.<\/strong> This can\u2019t usually happen immediately. It\u2019s taken me almost two years, and I am still not done.When I started my entrepreneurial adventure I was devoting more than half my available work hours to administrative activities. This included things like:\n