I think what Rich said in an earlier post made a lot of sense.  If you love what you're doing you don't call it work.  I like the idea of pursuing a 4 hour work week where I only had to spend 4 hours (maximum) on the stuff I don't want to do.  I like Tim's concept of outsourcing the responsibilities to allow him to focus on what he WANTS to do instead of what he NEEDS to do.

I suggest every entrepreneur and/or executive create their "I don't want to do list".  See a copy of mine below just in case any of you can take on a responsibility or two off my list.

I'd love to outsource certain tasks to professionals who are better at it than I!

http://www.lifeplancommunity.com/media/files/DontWantToDo.do c

Katherine - you seem to have gotten control of your life and you now have a pretty good system going.  Great job!  I've delegated quite a few tasks in my business but I still struggle with delegation of certain tasks due to the quality factor (I tend to think there's nobody better a customer service than myself) or because of the financial side of handing things off when you could do it and save a few bucks.  To get to the top I feel we have to continue to hand off the stuff we're competent at so we can focus on the things were' excellent and unique at in order to make it big.  This seems to be a leap of faith that's makes for a some hard decisions.  Are we supposed to grin our teeth and do the work until we're profitable or do we delegate everything except what we're genius at and focus on that to get profitable quicker?

What has helped you "let go" and "let others" do some of the more mission critical tasks and has it paid off for you to pay others to do it?