MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

The Real Cost of Doing Tasks You Could Delegate

11 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this practical monologue, Mark Kohler guides viewers through a systematic approach to delegating low‑value tasks. He advises first listing five or six routine activities that can be handed off, then estimating the hours those tasks consume (e.g., roughly 30‑40 hours). Kohler then walks through a simple ROI calculation: compare the cost of hiring help (e.g., $4,000) against the potential earnings generated from the reclaimed time (e.g., an extra $10,000+ per month). He stresses that the freed hours should be directed toward revenue‑producing work—creating videos, selling products, closing sales—rather than leisure, using a small allowance for personal time as a reward. The core message is that strategic delegation can improve cash flow, reduce stress, and enhance lifestyle when the financial return outweighs the expense.

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You made your list of all the things you do, the lower hanging fruit that you're going to get off your plate. Now, think this is deep. If you're going to give them this list of five or six things, you're going to have kind of a, okay, that's going to take 40 hours for them to do. At the least, they're going to free up 30 of your hours. They're going to be inefficient at times, blah, blah, blah. But let's just say they take 30 hours off your plate. What are you going to do with that time? I hope you're going to make more money with it. You're going to build more per hour. If you're an individual, you're going to create more video, you're going to sell more product, you're going to do whatever. This is not hiring assistance. So you can go play 30 hours of golf. Now, maybe you're going to add five hours of golf in there, but for that other 25 hours, you better be moving the needle because you've got to make four grand. So be thinking of, okay, if I have literally 25 more hours and I could close an extra sale a day or a week or whatever your price model is, you can say, oh, I could bring in 10 grand more. If I had literally 20 more hours a week, I bet you I could make $10,000 more a month. Well, there you go. Cost you four, you make 10, you're ahead six, and you get better lifestyle and you've got a helper and you're not stressed out.