4 Systems I Built to Stop Being the Bottleneck in My Business

Struggle: “Everything runs through me and it’s burning me out.” Desire: “I want my business to run without me micromanaging every task.”

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Ever feel like you’re the reason everything in your business moves at a snail’s pace?

You know what I mean:
Your team waits for your reply.
Your clients wait for your direction.
And nothing moves until you say go.

At first, it feels like control.
But then? It starts to feel like a chokehold.

If you're always the bottleneck, you're not scaling, you're stalling.

What if your business could run without you needing to touch every piece of it?

Let’s build systems that move faster than you do.

1. SOPs That Actually Get Used

Most people hear “SOP” and think: boring docs no one reads.
And they’re usually right, because most SOPs are written like legal disclaimers.

I flipped the script.

Instead of writing a PDF graveyard, I record Loom walkthroughs of key processes, showing the how and the why in real time.
Then I turn those into bullet-point SOPs, embedded right into ClickUp tasks.

Now, when someone asks, “How do we send a launch email?”, they don’t ask me. They check the…