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Divide and conquer

Delegation (at least for some of us) is one of the hardest things in the world. 

To give a task to someone else and then to watch them do it in a way which is not the way in which you would do it and at times get a result, which you're pretty sure you would have got only better, is challenging and complex.

The inability to do this, though, is suffocating.

It suffocates you because you can only carry out so much work in one day, and therefore you will restrict yourself to the ability to grow and improve.

It suffocates the people that you're looking after because if you do it always or you criticise them for doing it badly, then they'll never do it or learn to do it themselves.

The lack of ability to trust and delegate something to someone else is toxic and holds you back from achieving the greatest possibilities that you can achieve.

It takes bravery, strength, and resilience and the ability to bite your tongue when something turns out that you'd rather it didn't.

But also, if you can look into the future and see when that person you're giving things to is better at doing it than you, you can see a pathway forward to something else.

We, none of us, can make the changes we are required to make ourselves; only through collaboration and the separation of work will we be able to achieve what is required to take us all to a better place.

By Colin Campbell on 11/06/23 18:00