I Hired An Assistant Today!

Today, I hired one of my beautiful best friends as an assistant.

This was A REALLY HARD decision to make, probably far harder than it needed to be.

I kept telling myself that I just needed to be MORE PRODUCTIVE and that would fix it.

Now, compared to some, I don’t have a ridiculously overflowing inbox. My client list is manageable, and my project timetable works for me; and when it doesn’t, I adjust it.

I am used to being captain of my boat, first mate, and cabin boy, all rolled into one. Entrepreneurs are like this, you see: we can do all these different things in tandem. We are really good at multitasking when we need to (which is a lot of the time). We can wear many hats, and most of us learn how to take all the unnecessary hats off at the end of the day, and just be ourselves for a while. Most of us learn how to de-stress so that we can enjoy the beautifully unique life we have built with our own capable hands.

Recently, however, my boat has become a ship, and the ship has begun to sail. I am not just sitting here fishing in the (plentiful) shallows. I have been pulled, gently at first, into a current that moves me faster and faster each day that goes by.

Translation: MORE WORK COMING IN, SAME AMOUNT OF TIME TO ACCOMPLISH IT.

Not only that, but some of this new work is coming in the form of incredibly brilliant ideas from my own mind, ideas that need to become the Thing they were meant to be.

How am I supposed to get all this done and maintain my sanity and my health?

Answer: I can’t.

I can’t do it.

That’s because it IS actually too much. I needed someone to share the burden, to take some of the stress away, and to help my ship sail smooth and true.

I tried comparing myself to other people I know who have assistants (trying to figure out if I was THERE yet), but in the end, that’s just ridiculous. I’m not them, and they’re not me. They don’t have my inbox. They don’t have this amazing business. They don’t do things the way I do, because I’m the one who does them that way.

Now the lesson to learn is this: giving up control is not a bad thing.

Learning to let go of things I don’t need to hold on to is probably the best thing possible for me right now.

Finding a person to trust them with is even better: My new Caffeinated Ninja, Sarah (@leianajade on Twitter), is on board the ship with me now.

(It’s mindblowing to me that I am busy enough to need an assistant. OMG I’M A TWO-PERSON CREW!)