Simple system for delegating tasks

Early on in my business career I learned the importance of delegating tasks and that it doesn't mean you're abdicating responsibility.

Instead, you're freeing up your time to do more important things.

For some people that can be hard to do, especially if they have a problem micromanaging, but I found it a logical progression in business.

But it can sometimes be difficult to knowing what to delegate and what not to delegate.

Then one day I read a book by Michael Hyatt called "Your World-Class Assistant: Hiring, training, and leveraging an Executive Assistant".

In the book he gives a really simple, easy to follow system on both how to delegate tasks and in which order.

His simple system consists of four levels. You start at one and slowly over time work up to as close to 4 as possible, which as you'll read later is actually near impossible.

Here is his system on which tasks to delegate first:

1. Tasks I’m bad at and hate doing.
2. Tasks I’m bad at but love doing.
3. Tasks I’m good at but hate doing.
4. Tasks I’m good at and love doing.

As you can see the ultimate goal is to delegate every task with the exception of the ones that you're both good at and love doing.

Now while this is a good framework to follow, in my opinion I don't think it's possible to perfectly hit level four and here's why.

No matter what business you have, there will always be things you have to do that you don't like.

Take an author for example. Many times over the years I've heard best selling authors say how they hate to write, but it's something they chose to do anyway in order to get a specific result or hit a certian goal.

So whle you can't perfectly hit level four, this is still a great guide when it comes to delegating tasks and it helped me a lot.

If you want to read Michael Hyatt's book for yourself (it's actually quite short), you can check it out on Amazon here.