In week one you listed a few changes you would make in your life over the next 10 weeks. They were mighty, bold, and even revolutionary in some cases.

I used to be an Add On person. Meaning that I thought I could just keep adding things into my life (even if that meant taking things OUT of my life) and just keep going. Well, that doesn’t work. At some point the pipeline is full and that means it’s clogged.

In this week’s module I talked about outsourcing. I gave a lot of examples from my own business and made suggestions about what you could do.

Which of your 10-week changes require you to do something additional? Are you planning to just add those into your routine? Something has to go in order to be successful at adding something new in. Right?

While you can surely get rid of time wasting activities to free up some time, that might not be enough.

What specific tasks that need to happen in order for you to up your professional results? What are you doing to improve your business that could be more effectively handled through outsourcing?

• Definitely any and all research! Let someone work on a Google Doc Spreadsheet of events with which you want to contact and connect. Give them a city, industry, niche, or sector and let them do the hunting.Open that document and scan through the work someone else has created and decide which you want to pursue. You can either find someone locally or grab someone with a college degree who lives overseas. The latter will cost you all of about $5/hour or go crazy and get someone 20 hours/week for $250/month. The former might be someone you know that wants to be a part of your business, or an intern, or a young entertainer you mentor.

• Admin – there are a dozen to do items that can make your business run more efficiently. Accounting (even if it’s simple, there are ways to do it that will save you time, money, and frustration). Can you speak to an accountant and get someone a few hours a month? This one change will give you a more solid business foundation. Get this straight BEFORE you need it. What other admin tasks make you crazy or kill your joy?Note: In a few weeks we are going to talk about money. I have a very special guest who speaks to us – as entertainers – with a system that has earned him NY Times Bestseller status.Your admin person might just feel she should be paying you for the learning that’s going on. You can work out a commission payment so they have a vested interest in your success.

And please don’t get caught up on the money. Don’t let that stop you. There are many ways to get creative with outsourcing. One show for a local accounting firm’s party could set you up with a few hours/month accountant without cash exchange.

It’s a mindset shift. Change takes change. Get out of the mindset that says you can’t afford it, aren’t worth it, aren’t big enough, aren’t at that stage, or anything else that is tied to that delicious lizard brain which, more than anything else, wants you to stay exactly where you are.

Chalk it up to the cost of doing business. What it takes to be a part of a thriving TEAM that works to support you in your business. This is too big to do alone – trust me, I’ve tried.

Successful people have teams and that can look a lot of different ways. The only way it doesn’t look is one person that does it all by them self.

And now it’s up to you! Your homework, list 5 tasks that you will outsource so you can free up more time to play bigger. These can be very small items to monumental big ones. Make a list and put a date by which it will be in place.

The Five Tasks I Will Outsource and the Day it Will Be In Place

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Do this. Stick to it. If you can’t think of five, think of 3 that are big enough to move the needle and free you up to be the place you either have to be, or want to be.

Post the one that you are afraid to outsource on our Facebook Group. This will hold you accountable and will probably inspire someone else.

See you tomorrow.