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A lot of entrepreneurs think they’re scaling.
They’re not.
They’re panicking.
They hit a wall of overwhelm and do the one thing they’ve been told will “fix everything”:
They hire.
A VA, a contractor, maybe a few part-time helpers.
But instead of solving the problem…
They just move it into someone else’s inbox.
Now you’re spending your time:
Answering questions
Fixing mistakes
Explaining what lives only in your head
And paying for the privilege
That’s not scaling.
That’s stress—with a monthly invoice.
Here’s the real problem:
You’re hiring before systemizing.
You’re building a team to run your business,
but you haven’t built the business to be run.
So now, people aren’t following systems.
They’re following you.
And that means your business still depends on you.
Your brain. Your time. Your bandwidth.
Which defeats the whole point.
Reframe: People Should Run Systems—Not Your Business
This is how what we help business owners do with our agency:
Build the system
Test the system
Use the system
Only then do you plug in a person.
Why?
Because systems don’t get sick.
They don’t forget.
They don’t leave for a better offer.
People come and go.
But systems stay.
And the longer they stay, the better they get.
And if you want help improving your systems, building new ones, and training your team on these systems, reply “Systemiz” and I’ll send you the details.
No fluff. Just systems.
Chris “The Systemizer” Punt