By Tatiana O’Hara

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While I may not know you personally, believe it or not, I already know a few things about you. You’ve been in business for a little while now, you’ve figured out how to make 4 figures a month, and you’re ready to go to the next level (hellllooo big bucks!)

But, something is going on behind the scenes that you just can’t seem to diagnose. You’re working tons of hours, serving the heck out of your clients, but you don’t quite feel like the CEO. Or maybe you do, it’s because it stands for Currently Extremely Overwhelmed..

I hear you friend, and I’m here to help. You may be suffering from being a Grindaholic. 

Symptoms include:

+ Working really hard to no end

+ Inability to close laptop at night

+ Working really hard to no end

+ Inability to close laptop at night

+ Wearing all the hats 

+ Not thinking hiring is realistic for you

+ Making consistent revenue but wants more

+ Queen of “But they can’t do it like I can”

If you resonate with three or more of those symptoms then call me WebMD because you’ve officially been diagnosed. 

“But how Tatiana? How did I get here?” Let’s talk about it. Here are my top two reasons for why you’re stuck in grind mode and how to get out. 

1) You don’t trust a team to help you. 

You worked hard to build this business from the ground up. You put in the blood, sweat, tears. You put yourself out there on social media, and you have some real traction going. Your audience and clients trust you very much, so why would you bring a stranger (or another one if you already have a team) into the mix? Trusting a team can feel really scary, but a lot of times this fear actually comes from a deeper insecurity. You may feel like you won’t make the best hiring decisions, like your backend is a mess, or like you don’t have a true process behind what you do, so it can’t be duplicated. 

Well let’s talk about how to work through this fear. Follow this 8 step process to start gaining trust in a team.

+ Get really clear on which areas of your business you need the most help in

+ Then write a list of things that this person would be helping you with

+ What’s the smallest area of impact someone could come in and help you with first? 

+ Start with this small area and write out what your definition of a “good job” with this task would be

+ Communicate this to the team member. Get some agreements going on whether this is something they can do or not

+ Give them the space to do it, and have evaluation checkpoints throughout the duration of the task or project

+ Celebrate wins and discuss lessons

+ Repeat with bigger and bigger tasks until you feel comfortable

A lot of our fears of team building can be minimized if we just ease our way into it. Trust is built over time and it’s completely normal to not have full trust immediately.

2. You don’t know what you don’t know

Oftentimes when clients come to me with a team already, they’re trying to figure out why they’re still in grind mode. They thought hiring a team was supposed to be beneficial and a huge time savings. 

The good news is, they’re not wrong. Sometimes we just didn’t know what we didn’t know, so we may have made an uninformed decision when hiring. Which if I’m being honest, isn’t always a bad thing! Hiring and team building are some of the most vulnerable tasks you’ll ever do as CEO, so the fact that some people are willing to jump out there is huge!

Here’s how you can implement strategy into deciding which role you need to hire next:

+ Brain dump all of your day to day tasks as CEO

+ Decide which of these tasks you need to delegate first

+ Group them together based on like things

+ Create “buckets” that this person will be responsible for

+ Looking at these buckets, you should be able to determine what this role will look like. Social media manager? Video editor? Executive Assistant?

+ Begin to follow a strategic hiring process to make sure you select the best possible candidate. 

Here are just a couple of the ways you can really begin to own your role as CEO. This is 100% your next step. You’ve done the sales programs, you’ve upleveled your social presence, etc. Now it’s time to invest inward. You owe it to yourself to escape the grind. To make boss moves now, that will set your business up for sustainability later. Ready to recover from being a grindaholic for good? When you apply for my program, Grindaholics Anonymous, you’ll receive an invitation to my private training for accepted applicants only. Here I’ll teach you my 7 step RECOVER ™️ framework that my clients and I have used to escape the grind. 

Visit www.grindaholicsanonymous.com to submit your application.

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