When you start your own business and pop CEO on your business card you’re likely to feel it stands for Chief Everything Officer rather than Chief Executive Officer. And if you are running a family as well you probably feel like you’re Chief Everything Officer of that too.My thinking is this: as CEO you need to make sure that everything gets done, but you don’t need to do everything yourself.
“How can I get paid for the stuff I love doing so that I can pay someone else to do the other stuff?”
This way you are still in charge of making sure that stuff happens (Chief Executive Officer), but you don’t have to do it all yourself (Chief Everything Officer).
It needn’t cost a lot to get help, in fact it could be as simple as paying the teenager next door a few dollars to do your filing
And while I am not one to give advice as to how to run a family I do know how overwhelming it can be to Chief Everything Officer at home. As Mum, I’m pretty much in charge of making sure that everything happens (school bags packed, uniform cleaned, baby fed, house tidied, shirts ironed, groceries bought etc etc) but where I can I get help. I don’t always pay for it - in fact I’ve finally got the oldest children doing a few jobs - but when I do I do so because it frees me up to work on my business, a much better use of my time.
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