How To Succeed As A Lazy Entrepreneur

22 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Dom Monkhouse argues that successful entrepreneurs work smart, not hard. He recommends taking walks to generate ideas, delegating to trusted team members instead of micromanaging, and stepping back from daily tasks to focus on the bigger picture.

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I think it's really important to work smart, and sometimes you have to work hard because there's a lot to do. But a lot of the time, if you take a bit of time, take a bit of space, go for a walk, you'll come up with a smarter way of doing something than if you're just sitting on a keyboard in front of you. Yeah. And also, as an entrepreneur, you have to be good at delegating. Well, you don't have to be, but if you want to be more than a one-man band, you have to be good at delegating. And actually, if you're really fundamentally lazy, which I think at the core I'm fundamentally lazy, I don't want to do any of the work. So then I will hand it over to someone and I won't micromanage. Manage them and I won't get into the weeds with them all the time. I will trust them and they will do their job. And if you hand over the work, but also hand over the trust and the belief, they're much more likely to do a great job than if you are in the weeds with them all the time. So I think you are much better off backing away from the details and backing away from the work rather than piling in, which should give you more time in the day to go for a walk and come up with ideas and think about the business, not be doing work within the business.