Adult Add: Delegating, A Quick Way To Gain Free Time
Tellman Knudson And Stephanie Frank
Delegating work to other people requires some finesse, if you
want to do it right and still allow it to be fun, especially if
you have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). And there are a lot
of things you can do that just don’t quite work right when
you’re trying to work with delegation and have ADD, too.
Probably, the number one objection from ADD people is, “I can’t
afford it. I don’t have that much cash flow coming in. When I
make more money, then I’ll learn how to delegate.”
The fact is that if you are going to be paying out of pocket
for all the things you’re trying to delegate, that would be
true. But, as an entrepreneur (ADD or not), one of the things
you should do, especially when starting a new project, is
figure out how you can have the least up-front expense. Decide
what you already have and make that work. You may not realize
it, but you are already delegating at least half of your life
to other people!
When you start delegating intentionally, that’s when everything
really changes. People with ADD are extremely capable and
extremely good at adapting to situations and generally very
intelligent. Consequently, ADD people know that they themselves
have the ability to accomplish all these different things
they’re delegating to other people.
Most people with ADD love the challenge of developing new
skills, and would rather get excited by the new learning
process. This happens on a conceptual level, right before
delegation occurs, and consequently, people with ADD find it
hard to delegate.
People with ADD just love to learn!
One of the traps ADD people fall into is when something sounds
exciting, they can just go read a book about it and learn about
it. Because of their voracious appetite for learning new
information.
However, there’s a flip side to this. Sometimes, if you have
ADD, when you have a skill that you should be outsourcing, you
keep doing it anyway because you can do it a lot faster
yourself.
For instance, say you need to get a spreadsheet imported into a
database and have a high tech background. Maybe you can do that
job in 30 seconds. Yet, in the process of being a leader, you
have delegated too much and nobody knows how perform the task.
Teach your delegates: “Here’s how you do it,” and you're on
your way. So, when it’s something that you already have
knowledge about and can do, then why not do it and in the
process, teach others to do it, too?
But, there is a third thing about ADD, and this is a big
one--the issue of control. People with ADD don’t really want to
give it up. They have this perception that in order to delegate,
they’re giving up control. But, you really can delegate and not
give it up, not feel like you’re out of it. And you'll still be
able to sit down and do things you want to be doing.
Once you get good at delegating and start practicing it more
frequently, you'll see that you're suddenly making more
progress, more quickly. In fact, you'll gain an exponential
amount of control over everything that happens in your business
because through delegation, things move forward much faster. You
actually get more control over everything that’s happening
instead of less. It’s a little deceptive at first, but it turns
out that way every single time.
So, remember: Even when you're delegating, you’re never giving
up control. When you have ADD, it’s just in your nature to want
to hang on. So, that’s the key--focus on gaining freedom,
instead of giving in to the resistance of “What if?”.
About The Author: Tellman Knudson, certified Hypnotherapist, is
CEO of Overcome Everything, Inc. Stephanie Frank,
internationally known speaker, is the author of "The Accidental
Millionaire." Together they founded InstantADDSuccess, the
foremost resource for people with ADD/ADHD at
http://instantaddsuccess.com
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