AI won’t replace you. But the entrepreneur using AI *will* replace the one who isn’t. The future of business is human + machine + systems.

Entrepreneurs cling to tasks because they think no one else will do them right. (Guilty.) Truth bomb: 80% done by someone else is better than 0% done because you never had time. Think about that. I started becoming way more productive AND effective when I learned that 80 percent is "good enough." So many things to say about that. Speed to market, perfectionism is a literal disease, "money loves speed," etc. BOTTOM LINE: GSD! You do that leveraging systems and people. Now go do it!

Want to double your growth? Subtract half your tasks. The fewer things you do, the more energy you put into what actually counts. I know it sounds counterintuitive (because it kinda is), but you'll find out what's really important by stopping doing things that may not make sense. Way back, when I was in IT, we had suspicions that certain people weren't looking (ever) at custom reports we built for them. After a few months, we just turned the reports off. Literally nine times out of ten, nobody said a word. They didn't really need those reports and you probably don't really need to do *that thing* (whatever that thing is). Give it a try.

Instead of asking, ‘What do I need to do this week?’ ask, ‘What can I stop doing this week?’ That’s the question that scales. We often--myself included--do stupid shit that doesn't even move the needle when we could be stacking that wasted time into a bank that could actually earn us money.

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