# @chriswillx on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B3zXbQrFq9M
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20105055-chriswillx-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-10-19T14:08:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chris Williamson (@chriswillx) — https://gondola.cc/chriswillx

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“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax” — David Allen.
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For most of my adult life I’ve been a businessman whose revenue is incredibly turbulent. Events and club promo is a fast moving and fickle business where what’s cool one week is socially cancerous the next.
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This created a breeding ground for my perfectionism to turn into neuroticism. This is epitomised by the fact me and darrentoddsmith would spend every Saturday afternoon for 4 years setting up the clubnights we were running rather than pay someone £30 to do it for us because we were terrified they would get it wrong.
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I struggled to relinquish control or delegate responsibility which ultimately is to the detriment of the business as it can’t scale sufficiently quickly. There’s only 24 hours in all of our days and if you want anything in your life to grow quicker than your own workload - you need to give responsibility to the people around you.
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You might be in this situation somewhere in life where you can’t bare to switch off and allow other people to take over. It could be with raising your child, building a business, tidying a home, connecting friendships or anything else.
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The bottom line is that you cannot do everything yourself. No effective athlete trains maximally all year round, even if they COULD do it without injury (which is analogous to burnout or a breakdown in normal life) they choose not to, why?
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Because they know that the priority is long term progress toward a goal, not short term task completion to stave off a sense of itchy feet from not being industrious enough.
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Learn to let other people assist with the things they are able to do, so you are free to complete the tasks no one else can, and avoid a breakdown in the process.
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