There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes with running a monetized creator business.
It's not burnout from creating. It's the weight of being the only person who can answer a question, approve a decision, or move something forward. Every brand deal. Every collaboration. Every hire. Every pivot. It all lands on your desk, not because you're a control freak, but because you never decided who else could own it.
That's the ownership problem.
And it's invisible until it isn't. Most creators don't notice it building. They're too busy executing. But at some point the revenue is there, the opportunities are there, and somehow everything still feels harder than it should. You're working more, not less. You're saying yes to things you don't want because saying no feels like leaving money on the table. You're the last person to leave every decision.
That's not a time management problem. That's not a systems problem. That's an ownership problem.
Here's what I've seen in 15 years of scaling enterprise operations the moment a company gets stuck is almost never about strategy. It's about one person still sitting in the middle of every decision that should have been delegated, automated, or eliminated six months ago. The fix isn't working harder or hiring faster. The fix is deciding what should no longer require you at all.
That's the work. And it's the only work that actually moves the needle.
The question worth sitting with this week:
What decisions came through you in the last 7 days that shouldn't have required you at all?
Write them down. Don't fix them yet. Just name them. That list is the beginning of your ownership reset.
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