You don’t need to do it ALL yourself

Having zero employees doesn’t mean you have to do EVERYTHING yourself.

Being self-employed AND staying solo is playing on hard mode, and there’s zero shame in recognising if it’s not the right setup for you.

That said, it could that be your idea of it has been skewed by celeb entrepreneur Voldedorks telling you that you can do it all on your own, and if you can’t you should “go back to work” like that’s a bad thing.

If that’s the case, two obvious but critical tweaks might help:

• Recognise your powers, focus purely on those, and build products and systems to streamline your work around them
• Recognise where you’re dragging the chain, and see if you can get contractors, other businesses, automation, or even friends and family to help (I drag the chain with bookkeeping, so I have a contracted bookkeeper to remind me about important stuff, she rarely works more than 2 hours per month)

These are useful tweaks whether you’re self-employed or not… but are complete game-changers if the only person it all relies on is you.