There is a reason why so many studies say $75,000 is peak happiness. It’s because it’s enough money for comfort, extra fun stuff, and all your necessities. When you start to get higher than that, you’ll notice burnout creeping in.
Here’s my theory! At $75k, you’re working amazingly, but not quite hustling. Your work isn’t taking over your thoughts and exhausting you quite like the pressure to maintain a higher quality $100k+ output.
When you reach the higher level, you need to start making changes in your life. Even if you have a partner that does a majority of the housework, if they’re asking, “Can you vacuum once in a while?” You need to start considering housekeeping services. Even once a month is a great investment in relieving you of that mental load. Same with landscaping and bug spray. These tasks need to be outsourced.
If your daily battle is dinner (like me!), it’s time to start spending money on Hello Fresh or search for a local company that does meal prep. I use Citrus Pear, but they’re not nationwide yet.
There are people that told me laundry service was a life changer. I tried it and was underwhelmed, but I only have three people in my house. If you have a whole lot of kids and piles of laundry, this might be a good investment!
We talked about how to reduce the mental load on your lifestyle – which, in my opinion, is the top priority. Now let’s talk about reducing the workload in your business.
I invested in the Clockwork Accelerator program [affiliate] to improve my systems, automate as much as possible, and reduce my insane workload that I had heaped upon myself. This course helped me learn how to delegate to contractors without losing my mind! How to give them permission to make good decisions on their own, and how to send them information that’s clear and easy to follow – keeping the endless question loop from occurring.
As a solopreneur, my process wasn’t clear enough to hand over to another person to follow without handholding. Clockwork’s team diagnosed my problems, gave me homework to fix it. Over a few months, I had a system that anyone could hop into and take over.
This summer, it had been about 7-months of Clockworking my business when I got COVID. I was able to successfully hand off almost all my work to my contractors successfully because I had done the work on my processes. During that 2-week period, I only checked in for about 1 hour a day. They rolled the business along without me successfully! These are just hourly contractors, none are employees. And they maintained such a level of quality that NO ONE knew I was (mostly) out for 2-weeks!
If you feel stuck wearing all the hats and doing all the things, if you have to wake up early to check emails when you’re supposed to be vacationing, afraid to take time off for sickness, and / or just want to do less day-to-day admin, Clockworking [affiliate] my business worked for me, and I can’t say enough good things about it. Plus, if you join, you’ll get to hang with me in the group meetings!
Adding processes into your business is another way I’m taking the “broke” out of commercial real estate brokerage.
