If your business can’t grow without you, you haven’t built a business—you’ve built a trap.⁠ ⁠ You wake up at 5:30 AM and immediately start putting out fires. You’re chasing invoices, tweaking social media captions, and handling every lead because you’re the only one who can close them. By 3:00 PM, you realize you’ve just been the company’s most expensive and overworked employee.⁠ ⁠ The Founder’s Trap⁠ You have made the business 100% dependent on you. You have become the bottleneck. To scale, you must pivot your mindset from “How do I do this?” to “Who can do this for me?”⁠ ⁠ The 7-Day Audit Exercise:⁠ This is the most valuable exercise you will ever do. Get a notepad or a spreadsheet and list every single task you perform for one week. At the end of 7 days, draw two columns:⁠ ⁠ High-Value Tasks (R600+/hour): Growth, vision, and high-level strategy.⁠ ⁠ Low-Value Tasks (R150/hour): Admin, chasing invoices, and "firefighting."⁠ ⁠ The Mandate: Keep the R600 tasks. Delegate the R150 tasks. ...