Short spoken monologue (YouTube) by Lauren Bateman advising listeners to outsource tasks when feeling overwhelmed to free time for higher-value work or personal life. She frames outsourcing as a cycle: freeing time enables more projects or leisure, which may require further delegation and systemization to prevent renewed stress.
If you're feeling overwhelmed, you haven't outsourced enough. And that's how I know I need to start outsourcing more because I start feeling stressed. I feel that stress coming in and I'm getting into another one of those cycles. When you free up time, it allows you to bring on and do more projects. And I've brought on a lot more projects to fill the time I outsource. I'm feeling a little bit of that stress and that strain. So now I need to sit down and I need to say, okay, what am I doing? Can I create systems and can I outsource this to someone else? So it becomes a cycle. You free up your time, you give it to someone else. You use your time to do better things. Or again, maybe you're going to use your time to spend with your family. It's up to you, the business you're trying to create, the lifestyle you're trying to create. I love working. It's great. But I also take time off too, so get into outsourcing as soon as possible.
