I saw a quote that said, “Old keys won’t open new doors.” I’m not sure who wrote it originally, but I immediately thought about bookkeeping and small businesses, or any business for that matter. When you first started out, you probably started alone or with a small handful of people. Usually, business owners do pretty much everything at first. You were responsible for buying the necessary materials, finding clients, setting up all of the office functions, marketing, finances, etc. It was all you. And you’ve been doing great.
But at some point, in order to level up your business, you have to bring on other people and trust them with some of the jobs that you have been doing.
I’ve met some extremely smart, extremely capable people, but nobody is an expert at everything. Even if you were amazing at everything, I’m sure that there are things that you enjoy doing and other things that you would rather not have to do.
Delegating some of the jobs in your business to other people accomplishes several things. First, it puts those jobs into the hands of people who are experts in those areas and actually enjoy doing those things. Just thinking about bookkeeping, since that’s my area, putting your books into a bookkeepers hands saves you time. Bookkeeping is the thing of nightmares to most business owners. Are you messing up your books? Are you overpaying in taxes, or even worse, underpaying? Are you using hours and hours that you could be spending making sales or producing revenue for your business?
You started out doing everything. It has been working, but to get your business to new heights, you can’t stay doing what you have been doing once you’ve reached the limit of what you can do – unless you have figured out a way to get more than 24 hours in a day, in which case, I have questions… The point is, if you want to achieve new things, you have to do new things. If you want to open new doors, you need new keys.
