Tara brought a new way of communicating a very important concept to Sharing, the TGtbT discussion board for resale professionals, the other day.
I’m a details person, meaning I like all the details to be done and done right. HOWEVER, I don’t have time to take care of every detail myself. Because payroll is a difficult one for me, I hire that one out and take care of the ones myself that are inside my “talent circle”…things I’m good at, that I can handle quite well myself, and that focus my physical, emotional, and mental energy in a way that makes me have MORE energy, not draining me of energy (like payroll and acct’ng stuff does).
Is it an expense I could get rid of? Yes. But at what cost?! In the beginning years of my biz, I wouldn’t have “splurged” on such a thing. Today it is a necessity to hire out some things that deplete me or just eat up my time, taking me away from the things that ONLY I can do. Hope that helps!
I love that phrase, talent circle…and even more, I love the concept. Why, indeed, do things that drain you of energy? Farm them out to someone who does it better and with more ease than you do, and spend your energies doing what YOU do BEST. When you are free, time-wise, mentally, imagination-wise, to do what you do best… you earn the right (and you are free to earn the cold cash) to hire someone to do what s/he does best, to take the load of onerous tasks off you.
I might even recommend that some things ARE worth “splurging” for, even in the beginning when money seems in short supply.
How many consignment and resale and even charitable thrift shops (with their supportive corporate boards), have not reached their potential, or even totally failed because they didn’t focus on their circles of talent, but instead slogged through the sucking quicksands of things they were not good at/ hated/ held them down from soaring to the heights of their true talents?
Tara owns Born Again Resale & Consignment in Idaho.
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