Get help, all the help you need to make success and happiness in your life and business. Particularly if you’re not sure of how to get there.
No single person, no matter how capable, has enough time to do everything, nor can they master every skill. If you are trying to do this, you’re doing it the hard way and the wrong way. You don’t have to hire an entire team all at once. But if it will cost you less money, and or time, and it will help you make more money in the short or long term, get help.
I consider myself pretty well rounded and capable but to support my art business I currently have a:
- Bookkeeper
- Business Attorney
- Social Media Consultant
- CPA
- Data Entry Assistants
- Virtual Assistants
- Event Assistants
- Personal Stylist
- Webmaster
- Local Framer
- Order Fulfillment Framer
- Fine Art Photographer
- Graphic Designer
- Sales consultant
All of whom are better at what they do than I’ll ever be. It costs me less in the long run to hire them, as needed, and it certainly takes less time. And it gives me more time to paint and to sell what I paint.
I’ve also hired life coaches to help take me from my miserable corporate cubical dwelling self to the life I have created for myself now. What I was doing then certainly wasn’t working and I appreciate the benefit of their wisdom.
And I’ve hired marketing and business consultants to help me construct my business.
Bottom line. I’ve invested in my business and myself. I heard Warren Buffet once say that the first and best place to get a return on your investment is yourself. I agree.
I have also fired people. My suggestion. Make your expectations very clear. Hire slowly. Fire quickly.
We all need help. And we can get to where we want to go faster with the help of experienced guides. It’s a sign of strength to admit this and it’s an act of power to take action and actually get the help that you need.
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~ No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails. ~ John Mortimer
~ Once victim, always victim – that’s the law! ~ Thomas Hardy
Timely.
I had a dream last night that an injury led to losing three fingers from my right hand. In the recovery process I stubbornly tried to do as much as possible by myself, but it was so hard. And of course there was grief, especially over being able to type fast and playing piano. Fortunately, I still had guitar.
I woke up praying, “Please, God, don’t let that ever happen!” But I also realized the dream was trying to tell me that I need help NOW, not just after a crisis of loss.