1.) Do myself: All client deliverables & outreach (pitch proposals, communication, etc.) + whatever I'm creating on the side (right now, it's a creative studio with video games)

2.) Delegate: Nothing. I just don't take on client work I don't want to do, so I avoid a lot of the shitty stuff maybe some other people can't. I do make clients hold up their side of the agreement, though, and I don't take on extra (unpaid) work just because the client is lazy, so in that way, I guess it's kind of like delegation.

3.) Automate: My calendar (through SkedPal), client scheduling, and email marketing (not pitches because ew--those are always personalized and written by me--but more like traditional email marketing). Probably more, but those are off the top of my mind.

4.) Ignore: Feelings 😂 I want to be joking, but I'm not. Even if I don't feel like it, I work. Or if I'm going through a particularly difficult rough patch in my life (heartache, etc.), I ignore it and stay productive instead til it stops hurting. As far as worky work things, I ignore all distractions other than the one task I'm doing in the moment (monotasking), shiny objects, my inbox (it's bad lol), and whatever fears I have about my current abilities (whether founded or unfounded). Fears/feelings are just information to know what to do to move forward, but staying stuck in that is a choice so I ignore the bullshit stories most people have when their current abilities don't yet measure up to the needs of the project/task/goal (I.e. feelings of inadequacy keeping them stuck/small).

1) Everything minus taxes

2) Taxes. I have a CPA who files stuff for me.

3) Anything that I have to do multiple times per week. If it's once a month I'll leave the process as something manual until it becomes more frequent. Something I learned while working at a "rocketship" / high growth startup is that shipping fast with a manual process >>>>> trying to automate too much in the beginning when you're not sure what usage patterns will be.

4) Multiple things:
- Feature requests from people who are not paying me money. If I get one of these, I send them a payment link and promise to build whatever it is fast, but do require them to sign up for a subscription first.
- Requests to do lifetime deals (these are at worst a scam, and at best a slimy marketing trick)
- Requests to jump on a call, unless it's someone wanting to pay me an "enterprise" amount of money. Calls aren't worth taking unless they lead to a $1K+ MRR deal being signed.
- I also sometimes ignore feature requests from brand new customers until I've heard at least 2 different people ask for the same thing. Sometimes new customers get really excited and ask for 5000 things at once, and there just isn't enough time in the day to get to all of them.