(Akiit.com) A business owner wears many hats and every hat has its own responsibility. You have the accountant hat, the sales hat, the IT hat, the social media hat. And then you bring in the brown paper bag because so much responsibility leads to needing to breathe into one!
You may be your own boss but that doesn’t mean that you can boss it all. Sure, you can try your hand at it and give it a good go, but that doesn’t mean that it’s going to be easy. Figuring out how to wear all of these hats at once is not simple, and sometimes it becomes impossible. Of course, as a small business, you’re not going to have enough people running things with you to ensure that every department is run correctly at all times. As you grow, though, you’re going to be able to hire and train people to come in and work within your business to handle each department to run things the way that you would. Doing this allows you to take off all the hats and just keep on one: 
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With all of this in mind, you need to make life in your business as easy as possible so that it runs smoothly and correctly at all times. Below, you’ll find four ways to make this happen!
- Learn What You Don’t Need To Do. Every single business has duties on a non-essential list. As an entrepreneur, you can only do so much. So, you need to write a list of all the things that you DO NOT need to do, and give those duties to other people to handle. Your time is precious and should be spent on growing your business.
- Learn What You’re Not Good At. You may be running a business, but that doesn’t mean that you’re perfect at everything. The key is knowing that this is okay! It’s okay that you’re not a master of everything. For example, you may be rubbish at managing IT, and that’s fine because others can do that for you and you can read more about this here. When you know what you’re not good at, you can stop doing it and do what you ARE good at, instead.
- Learn To Delegate. As we said, your business is your baby, but that doesn’t mean that other people can’t babysit, right? Employees and contractors are there to help, to take the load off, and that means you can let them grow and learn by handing them the duties that you really don’t want to spend time on. Delegate. And bite your tongue while you do it.
- Outsource To Experts. Making your life easier involves relying on other people to help and you can only do that if you actually send work out of your business to be managed by the experts. Experts may not be in your business four walls, but they are out there! Seek them out and pay them for their expertise!
Staff Writer; Ronald Poole