Great leaders aren’t lone geniuses; it’s a myth
Instead of saying something wrong, admit that you don’t know, but you’ll figure it out. Don’t fake that you know what to do. It doesn’t help anyone, and it doesn’t help you find a solution.
I never admitted when I was wrong because I thought it would make me look weak and admit to being a fraud.
Hello, impostor syndrome!
But admitting you don’t know is showing your confidence and your strength. You’re willing to accept your flaws and work on them.
Accepting help is a big part of self-growth too!
You’re not alone on this planet, and you don’t need to know everything.
- Admit you don’t know.
- Ask for help.
- Accept help and delegate.
Admit you don’t know!
Showing weakness and not being perfect 100% makes you human. People connect with imperfect people more.
A boss who thinks she is the best and doesn’t admit to any flaws isn’t good because she’s not ready to grow. She’s not moving forward.
Being stuck and not accepting change isn’t good for a project or a business.
Life and the world are changing constantly.
If you’re stubborn and you want to live life without change, you’ll fall behind. Because everyone else is evolving.
Entropy will decrease your life quality and capabilities.
Entropy = invisible force that brings disorderAdmitting you don’t know is the first step to accepting change and growth.
Without it, you’re not ready to learn something new.
As children, we learn something new daily. But as we grow and graduate from college, we’re fed up with studying and think we’re the best now.
At our jobs, the first months will be full of learning new things again because it’s our first corporate job. Then, when we’re the boss, we suddenly think we’re on top of the world and don’t need to grow anymore.
Those are the bad bosses, and they aren’t good for the company either.
At some point, their younger employees will grow beyond them because they learned about new tools like AI.
The boss who dictates emails to their secretary and then prints them out to read them will be left behind fast because new digitalized agencies are more efficient and cheaper for customers.
Ask for help
It’s not weak to ask for help. It’s a good sign for your employees that you are human too.
Nobody is perfect and knows everything.
Admitting that and then asking for help are humbling social skills every good boss should have.
You don’t know everything, so you ask someone who does know what you’re looking for. That’s why we have a big education economy, agencies, and consultants.
I’m not trying to figure out my taxes on my own. It would take too much time to go through all the laws. Instead, I go to a tax consultant and ask for help.
Then I have time to focus on my work and what’s important to me and my business.
Accept help and delegate
Part of being successful is accepting that you can’t do everything and finding the right people to whom you can delegate.
Being successful doesn’t mean you know everything, hence doing everything by yourself. That’s how self-employment can result in burnout quickly.
Being successful means to focus on the important tasks that move your business forward, and everything else is delegated.
This doesn’t just help you, but you give more responsibility to your employees or consultants, and they love that. They feel needed and doing a useful job.
Instead of falling into burnout, let’s try accepting help and delegation.
This includes personal stuff and household chores too.
If you think now, “Well, I don’t have the money to delegate.”
Well, then you don’t have the time to move your business forward to get to a level where you can afford it.
Which brings us to the next point:
Thrive by not doing everything yourself
Doing everything by yourself won’t move you towards your goal because you stuck fixing small problems.
How do you think Beyoncé can do so much more in the same 24 hours than you?
Because she has employees taking care of:
- household chores
- food
- traveling
- clothes
- hair
- kids
- taxes
- marketing
- dance choreographies
- …
Being successful means freeing up your time to focus on what’s important.
For Beyoncé, it’s singing and making new music.
Accepting that you don’t know something is the best thing happening to you.
You realize you can’t be successful on your own.
Find your people and delegate what you don’t need to do.
Less Stress. More Time. Less Overwhelmed!
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