An entrepreneur is a business owner. And a business owner should occupy a position outside of the everyday operations of the business itself.As Michael Gerber reminds us again and again, you must work *on* your business and not *in* your business to be a true entrepreneur.

The key to making this work is getting other people to do the job for you. There’s nothing worse than creating what you thought was a business, only to find you created a job. Entrepreneurs aren’t cut out for jobs. We’re cut out for ownership, but it takes discipline to make this really happen…

The problem is that most entrepreneurs are talented. We’re good at a lot of different types of work and we often enjoy wearing many different hats in our work. Of course, we always think that we can do a job better than anyone else.

And we probably can. But that’s just not the point.

Let’s take a second look at a quote I posted on this very point recently:

An entrepreneur is “one who creates value by shifting economic resources from low yield activities to areas where they would be more productive.”

So here’s your assignment, entrepreneurs – Find one task in your business that you can easily pay someone else to do. Just focus on one for now. The task should be something small but fairly time-consuming. It should also be easy to define in terms of “completion” for another person.

Now, write that task down on a small slip of paper using 1-2 sentences only.

Ready? Good.

Finally, find someone to do it. Anyone. Your kids. Your neighbor’s kids. A virtual assistant. Anyone. (Well, ok – anyone *capable and competent.*)

Maybe you’ll have to pay out $10 for one hour of work, maybe more like $25. Whatever the amount, try to think of this more as an investment. As My recommends, paying someone else to do easy work for you, you’re creating greater opportunities for you to focus on the very important tasks and to get your mind off the daily minutiae.

Here are some resources for finding help for a variety of your business tasks, or You can learn from:

Cosa aranda.com , Road-entrepreneur.com, Entrepreneurs-journey.com , Virtual.co.id

Happy outsourcing!