Someone out there loves the sh!t you hate doing
The stuff you dread is someone else’s playground
You know that thing you hate doing so much that you put it off until it’s an actual emergency?
Ya… someone else thinks that’s the fun part.
Seriously.
The spreadsheet you dread opening, the receipts piled in a shoebox, the endless email sorting, the client contracts that make your brain short-circuit… someone out there gets actual joy out of doing those things.
Not fake joy.
Not “well, I guess it’s fine” joy.
Actual “this is my zone” joy.
Boring is subjective
Boring is different for everyone.
You’re probably really good at something other people find impossible. Maybe you love sales calls, or design, or strategy. But when it comes to admin, bookkeeping, or systems? Forget it. That doesn’t mean you’re bad at business. It means you’re human.
And you’re not alone.
According to data gathered by www.score.org 40% of small business owners say bookkeeping and taxes are the worst part of owning a business.
On the flip side? There are people who literally built their careers because they love bringing order to financial chaos.
Your worst nightmare is their happy place.
Stop trying to be good at everything
The problem comes when business owners assume they need to be good at EVERYTHING.
Spoiler alert… you don’t.
ISG Business Process Outsourcing Study 2024 found that companies that outsource business processes achieve an average 15% cost savings and an 11% improvement in quality performance compared to doing everything in-house.
Why? Because time isn’t eaten up by the things that drain them.
Your real job is knowing what’s yours to do and what’s better off in the hands of someone who lights up at the thought of doing it. That person exists.
Meet Siobhan: our detail obsessed unicorn
This isn’t just theory for us.
Our team member Siobhan is one of these people who genuinely LOVES data, repetitive detail work, and the kind of tasks that make Olivia (and most business owners) want to set their desk on fire rather than finish.
It’s honestly the perfect balance.
Olivia builds the processes, creates the systems, and sets up the structure. Then Siobhan swoops in and makes sure every single step is followed, tracked, and updated without anything slipping through the cracks… and she enjoys every single part of it.
Fun fact…
Siobhan’s favourite subject in school was business statistics. Not only did she excel at it, she actually tutored other students to help them get it. Most people’s nightmare exam? That was her idea of a good time. Which explains a lot about why she lights up when the rest of us start groaning about numbers, formulas, and details.
Where Olivia’s brain lights up mapping out a new workflow in ClickUp, Siobhan is happiest plugging the actual tasks into the system and keeping them moving.
Olivia loves creating templates. Siobhan loves living in them.
Olivia loves the creative side, give her graphics, layouts, or workflows and she’s in her element. Siobhan, on the other hand, would rather poke her eyes out than design anything or open Canva. But here’s the kicker… if you hand her a folder full of finished templates, she’ll catch the tiniest inconsistencies in fonts, spacing, or colours instantly.
Where you see a pile of receipts, she sees patterns.
Where you see mind-numbing repetition, she sees rhythm and flow.
It’s her happy place. She literally loves that sh!t.
And it means Olivia doesn’t have to live in the weeds, she gets to stay in the big picture, knowing the details aren’t being dropped.
Why it matters
According to Asana’s Anatomy of Work Index (2025), knowledge workers now spend about 60% of their time on “work about work” tasks like chasing status updates, attending unnecessary meetings, or switching between tools, instead of on their core, skilled work. That’s more than half your week gone to tasks someone else could handle better and faster.
When you force yourself to slog through those tasks, your energy tanks.
You procrastinate, you half-ass it, or you avoid it until it bites you in the ass. Meanwhile, someone else would have knocked it off their to-do list in ten minutes flat while happily sipping coffee and humming along to their playlist.
Letting go of the stuff you hate doesn’t just free up time, it changes how you show up in your business.
Think about it
A client who stopped trying to keep their own CRM updated now spends that time following up on leads, which actually grew their revenue.
Another handed off the endless admin of scheduling and rescheduling meetings, and suddenly had enough breathing room to take on two new clients without working extra hours.
One finally admitted they were never going to organize their SOPs, so we did it for them. The next time they onboarded a new staff member, it took a day instead of three weeks.
This is what happens when you stop hoarding the parts of your business that make you miserable. You get back to doing the parts that actually light you up, the parts only YOU can do.
The real flex
So the next time you catch yourself saying, “I can’t stand doing this, it’s such a waste of time,” remember… it’s only a waste of YOUR time. Not everyone’s.
That boring thing could be exactly what keeps your business running smoothly. And the real flex? Knowing you don’t have to be the one to do it.
