A founder moved from doing everything themselves to building systems and empowering their team. They block time for strategy instead of staying in the weeds, and credit Dan Martell's Buy Back Your Time with reshaping how they delegate and reclaim capacity.
The GSD, to get shit done. I am a superhero at getting shit done. And yet it's my variability to get shit done that is getting in the way of the business's progress because things get bottlenecked with me. Because while I'm really good at getting shit done, I'm still just one person. I realized how much I was just like living in reactive space as opposed to consciously creating big buckets of time to be thinking about the business. I've created systems to enable that.
What are some things that you are being mindful of going into 2025?
Well, number one, I'm trying to get very focused in terms of what my goals are and how I spend my time and empowering my team to step up and take really full ownership for their parts of the business. They're as committed to it as I am, and I think that's a really fortunate place to be. And I just want to give them even more opportunity to run with that and to flourish. I've just read Dan Martell's book, Buy Back Your Time, and he talks about