Step 2 - How to Outsource

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1. Transcribed by https://otter.ai - 1 - Step 2 – How to Outsource SUMMARY KEYWORDS outsourcing, meals, kids, work, set, cleaning, systems, ideas, prepped, person, feeling, home, email, encourage, mom, marinating, scarred, sunup, form, week SPEAKERS Patricia Sung Patricia Sung 00:00 Hey there success moment, I want to give you a few ideas here in cases is feeling overwhelming, have some common places where people will start outsourcing. At first, we want to look at your home. Areas that are often easier to outsource are things like cleaning, cooking meals, chauffeuring your kids around childcare. And let me wrote like run through all those. Patricia Sung 00:24 When we talk about things like cleaning, obviously having a cleaning person come. But this isn't just cleaning your house, it could be things like cleaning your vehicles or cleaning out stuff like an or like helping having an organizer come help you sort out like what are the things that should be kept, because we want to keep everything usually any kind of like assistance in getting your space feeling good to you, that is a great place to start outsourcing. Patricia Sung 00:52 When it comes to cooking and meals. Outsourcing can look like a lot of different things, it can look like having the like, pre prepped meals come to you, it can come in the form of like buying more meals that are pre made at the grocery store or at Costco, it can come in the form of we use a service called Dream dinners where everything's prepped, and then we just make it, it can also come as having like buying the meals already prepped, like there are services that will send you the actual meal already made, you don't have to make anything, it's not the ingredients that arrive it's actual meal. This can look like lots of different ways. And I really want you to encourage you to start thinking outside the box, and letting your brain sit on the ways that you can start to outsource these things because it doesn't have to fit one specific box, let your brain sit on it. Patricia Sung 01:48 Start marinating, share in the Facebook group. Start putting your tentacles out for ideas. Because you will start to come up with things that you had never thought of before, people will suggest things you'd never considered before. We're accepting all creativity in whatever form it comes to. Things like child care. This is something that's really hard for us as moms because we feel like it needs to be. So there's a lot of guilt and shame that comes along with letting someone else watch our kids. I want to encourage you that that does not make you a bad mom to have somebody else help you with your kids. At all. We
2. Transcribed by https://otter.ai - 2 - are meant to live in a village we hear that all the time. It doesn't have to be only us that cares for our kids, it is okay to have someone help you with that. Patricia Sung 02:40 This also doesn't mean that you're sending them off to daycare from sunup to sundown. It can that may be where you are, but it doesn't have to it can be just a few hours a week where you can get some uninterrupted work time in. One of the things that is the this is one of the things that's most valuable to me, as a mom who works from home is having that separation between family time and work time. And that way when I'm with my family, I'm all in and present with them. And when I'm with my work, I'm all in and present with my work. Because that going back and forth is all it's all transitions and makes it extra hard and extra difficult for us to be switching between tasks. Patricia Sung 03:23 So when your kids keep popping in, it's like you're restarting over and over again. And it is okay to say I want three hours to focus on this. It is doable, and your kids will be totally fine. They are not going to be scarred for life, I promise. So these things at home are actually a great place to look whether or not you are a working parent because a lot of times these are the things that are really stressing us out. And even if you are struggling with like running your own business, having help at home can allow you to have more resources to do your work. So even if you're looking at this from a work perspective, it may not be that you need work, things outsource first and may need that it would fit you better to do home outsourcing first. Patricia Sung 04:15 Okay, let me switch over to work things when you're looking at things that you could outsource for work, things like that. We just generally tend not to enjoy the paperwork, the emails, setting up different systems, processing claims following up with people, these are all things that we can outsource in different ways. Obviously we can have someone help us do those things. Patricia Sung 04:38 There's also the option of setting up the systems so that they do a lot of this for us so we're not the ones who have to keep doing it. So for example if you need to follow up with clients who are setting up in your email that it automatically fought like follows up with them with an email like you know, a template email three days later so that you're not the one who did I check in with that person? These are ways that we can create outsourcing instead of outsourcing to a person, we are outsourcing it to a system. So things like follow up paperwork, all of that. Creating those systems to do things for us. And automating them is a great way to outsource. And another great part about setting up these systems is that you may want help to set up the system from the beginning. But then once it's set up, there's not as much like it's not, you're paying this ongoing person to do it forever and ever, you're set, you're paying them to set it up. But then after that, it's doing it for you, and you're just maintaining it. Patricia Sung 05:35 So this is a way to bring costs down and make your job easier is that you're outsourcing like specific projects so that things are set up and done. And moving on an example of a project for like at home would be like say you're moving, hiring a moving company to pack up and help you move is a project
3. Transcribed by https://otter.ai - 3 - based way of getting help instead of somebody who's coming every week. So you can look at both of those options, things that are one time and are going to set you up well versus things that are ongoing and will continue to serve you over and over again. Now the other thing I want to encourage you is that when you start this outsourcing process, remember what you were choosing right now is not set in stone forever. It's probably going to modify as we go and you find the right person to fit you. So know that right now we're just brainstorming. We're getting ideas on the paper and nothing's set in stone right now. We can change lots of things. Do your best to get as many ideas out there as you can. And we'll narrow it down as we go.