Lessons in Self-Love: Using Delegation as a Tool for Wellbeing

Delegation can be a helpful tool for emotional well-being and personal growth! Learning this tool not only helps you in your personal and professional life, but helps you build better relationships and be less stressed. How? Let us tell you!

The benefits of delegation for your well-being:

1. It helps us trust others
   Have a hard time letting go of tasks and letting others do them? Worried it won't get done or get done correctly? It may be an issue of trust! Delegating slowly challenges you to grow your ability to trust others to do things to the best of their ability. The more you delegate, the more you learn to trust those around you to do the very best they can. 

2. It helps us let go of control
   Truly delegating means handing the task off to someone else, but also not micro-managing them to maintain control. Micro-managing will cause you to eventually become burnt out and the person you have delegated to may give up or become frustrated in their abilities. Delegating is a positive tool but only if you let go a little.

3. It breaks perfectionism
   When you delegate, its true, the other person may do things differently than you would have and you may find that difficult because you had pictured something else in your head. But delegating isn’t about perfection, it is about efficiency, productivity, relationship building, and trust. And those things are more important than perfection.

4. It teaches us to communicate clearly
   When you delegate, the more clearly you communicate what you need done, in a way that inspires, the better results you will receive. Over time, you will learn the best way to communicate your desires clearly to each person in your life. This improvement on communication strengthens relationships and makes those around us feel understood and seen. 
   

Are you afraid to delegate?

Do you find yourself avoiding delegation in work or your personal life? It is important to reflect honestly with yourself about what is holding you back from delegating.

After reading the benefits above you may already have an idea of why. You may be afraid to give up control, you may not trust the other person, you may struggle with perfectionism.

It is okay if you are recognizing these things in yourself, in fact recognizing is the first step to becoming more self-aware and opening your mind to trusting others!