Small Business Owners: Improve Your Health Through Delegation

Today’s small business owners are always looking for ways to improve their health. But many of them consider going to the gym, healthy eating, meditation and other stress reduction techniques as the only ways to improve their health. Not many owners consider delegating some activities and responsibilities as a way to get healthier. There are many executive health solutions that will help even small business owners on the path toward good health.

Studies show that small business owners have more responsibilities today than their predecessors ever did. Humans in general make thousands more decisions every day than we did just eighty years ago. This is even more crucial for the decisions leaders make every day. The stress of the daily pressure to make the best decisions for your company can build up enough that it begins to affect your health. So how can delegating help? There are some things that are already delegated to your direct reports, but there are some you may not have thought of. Here’s a short list of them.

Hire a virtual assistant

Many things a small business owner handle every day can be easily handled by a virtual assistant (VA), from checking your email to scheduling meetings to posting on social media accounts for you. And VA’s can be certified and bonded depending on your needs. Just think of the time you could save and being able to focus your energy on actually growing your business. Virtual assistants are relatively inexpensive compared to the value of your time spent on other more productive activities.

Outsource your marketing

One of the tasks that is the hardest for small business owners to let go of is marketing. Not that most small business owners like to do it, it’s just very hard to trust someone else to market your business baby as well as you do. But the stress of trying to market as well as connect with new clients can be overwhelming and could cause you to spread yourself too thin. So whether you’re living in California and looking for a marketing agency Los Angeles or in Idaho looking for web-based marketing, finding the right marketing agency for your business will help you get healthier and stay healthier.

Accounting

If you’re like most small business owners, even thinking of keeping the books makes your blood pressure soar. That’s a common feeling and over time can be very detrimental to your health. So, delegating your accounting to either someone you hire specifically or hiring a company to manage your accounting will drastically reduce your stress and improve your health. Most companies are inexpensive and will work with you all year round to keep your financial health in great shape. You can then concentrate on making your personal health in great shape. When choosing someone to take over the accounting of your small business, be sure you have done your research and determined they are trustworthy and certified to take on the responsibility.

Web design and maintenance

Most small businesses struggle to keep their website updated and not having a current updated website that fits all the thousands of rules search engines enforce to make you findable is mind boggling. Outsourcing your web design and maintenance will help you keep your own health running smoothly just as a good web designer will keep your website running smoothly.

There are many ways to improve the small business owner’s health personally and now there are ways to improve your personal health through delegating activities in your business. Not only will it strengthen your personal health, it will improve your business health. It could invariably increase your profits because you have more time to spend on the important things in your business.

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