Jonathan Swanson

And then once you do that, then you start chasing your aspirations.

It's how do I, you know, for me, this is how do I make more friends?

How do I deepen my relationships?

How do I have the best marriage possible?

How can I be there for friends in need?

And those are the sorts of things that an assistant can actually help you with, but you're not going to actually do that unless you've got your passport renewed and your credit card bills paid and everything else done first.

So that's kind of the high level.

Remove pain and then increase your aspirations and go for your goals.

In terms of the levels of delegation...

The way most people start delegating is they delegate by task.

Hey, will you help order these flowers for my wife's birthday?

That's a good way to start, but it's the least powerful way to delegate.

The more intermediate way to delegate is delegate by process, is what we talked about.

It's like, hey, when I give gifts to my wife, I want X, Y, and Z. Here's what she likes, here's what she doesn't.

And you're now teaching your assistant how to do things at a higher level.

The next level more advanced delegators do is they delegate by goal.

And this takes often years where you've mind-melded with your assistant and give them so much feedback that you can just delegate a goal and they can execute it in the way you want.

So this is, hey, I want to exercise more.

I want to protect my sleep.

I want to spend more time with this person in my life, architect my calendar, reject meetings that don't fit this priority.