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Most founders confuse delegation with abdication—and it's costing them scale. Delegation is strategically giving a task to someone else. Abdication is deciding not to do something at all. The difference determines whether you're building leverage or just creating chaos.

I break down the 10-minute tracking exercise that reveals where you're spending double-digit percentages on hourly work, the "do, delegate, or delete" framework that clears mental RAM, and why documentation is the only thing preventing burnout from micro-decisions. The brutal truth: your team will never hit your 90% conversion rate, but 10 people at 60% destroys you doing everything alone. This is how you stop being the bottleneck in your own business and start building systems that scale without you in the room.

➡️ Timestamps

00:00 Effort Isn't the Metric—Not All Hours Are Equal
01:15 "If You Want Something Done Right, Do It Yourself" (The Biggest Fallacy)
01:54 The 10-Minute Tracking Exercise That Changes Everything
03:00 Your Time Has an ROI—Are You Calculating It?
03:31 Delegation vs. Abdication: The Critical Distinction
04:14 The Never-Ending To-Do List Stealing Your Sleep
04:54 When You Become the Bottleneck (And How to Spot It)
05:37 The One Task You Should Never Delegate
07:04 Letting Go of Tasks You're Emotionally Attached To
08:01 Why Your Team Will Never Be As Good As You (And That's Okay)
08:34 The Documentation Mistake That Kills Delegation
09:27 Trust Without Tracking = Anxiety (The Domino's Pizza Tracker Principle)
10:40 Understanding When Failure Is Normal vs. Operational
12:00 My 20-Year Evolution: From Control Freak to Leverage Master
13:07 Your First Hire Should Clean Your House (Here's Why)

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