I talk to a lot of entrepreneurs who feel like they can’t take a moment, much less a day off from working, without everything falling apart.

I take 6+ weeks off a year as a bootstrapped self-funded serial entrepreneur.

Here’s how I do it 👇🏼

Start slow. With my first business, I started off taking Friday afternoons off to go for walks on the beach (I lived in San Francisco at the time). I’d download podcasts and turn off my Cellular and Data.

I learned that a few hours away was fine. No fires to put out.

Then move to a full day, like a Friday. Start preparing ahead so you don’t have meetings on that day. I bet you’ll never go back to meetings on Fridays!

Check in late that night if you want, but take that day off completely. Learn that nothing needs you immediately.

Then plan a full week unplugged. Schedule it for 2-3 months out so you have time to prepare.

What you’ll find is that the business can’t be without ANYONE for a week, but it doesn’t need to be you.

1 year into @GetCredo I took 9 days off. My dev kept an eye on the biz.

Keep building up from there. I could walk away from @GetCredo for 2-3 weeks and it would be totally fine, because the team can do it all.

@_editorninja isn’t there yet, but I’m taking tomorrow off in the middle of 2-3x’ing this month.

How am I doing that?

I’m delegating. Yesterday I trained my colleague on doing what I do every day (QAing and returning edited docs to customers). Today she’ll do it as I observe. Tomorrow she’ll do it by herself.

Are you seeing the trick to taking time off?

It’s not more code. It’s delegation.

The sooner you learn how to delegate tasks and then whole roles to individuals, the sooner your company will grow faster and your life will improve.

It’s called leadership. This is how we build companies and escape being someone who founded their own job.

I talked about this at the start of my recent pod ep with @jamesrsowers with some ideas on how to fund this. It’s not as expensive as you might think, and very doable especially if your business is mid 4 to 5 figured in revenue.

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