Joe Fier stopped checking email and client messages constantly, handed off tasks to his team, and set up systems so the business could run without him. He gained time and freedom, and his company became less dependent on him being everywhere.
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What I did is detach myself from the business. And I realized that me actually taking time off it allowed me to mentally detach from the business and stop the addiction that I was addicted to it. I was addicted to, like, checking my email, checking my site, making sure that the clients were responding to as fast as humanly possible, all these different things. So I stopped that. I was able to let go of certain tasks. I was then kind of forced into having a set deadline of, like, all right, I got to create these systems so that the team can run it. So I improved my team and operations and detached from the business. So I had more time, freedom, and a better lifestyle and a much healthier company that wasn't nearly as reliant on me.