{"id":99214,"date":"2025-06-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/?p=99214"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:27:52","slug":"ceo-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/ceo-shift","title":{"rendered":"The CEO shift: Why you need to step out of the day-to-day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You\u2019ve built something powerful with your business, but if you\u2019re still running every part of it, you\u2019re not leading\u2014you\u2019re managing. If sustainable growth is the goal, then the way you operate has to evolve.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a difference between owning your business and running it like a CEO. It&#8217;s time to get out of the weeds and uplevel your leadership! 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To get there, you need to take a hard look at your systems and take steps to take yourself out of everyday operations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The CEO trap: Decision fatigue<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>That \u201cquick question\u201d you pause your deep work to answer? It adds up. Decision fatigue creeps in when you\u2019re constantly switching contexts and managing every detail. Eventually, it erodes your ability to lead with strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bottlenecks are bad for business<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If your business can\u2019t function without you\u2014if things grind to a halt when you\u2019re out sick, on vacation, or just trying to rest\u2014then your system needs an overhaul. And yes, no matter how small your team is, you <em>do<\/em> have a system. The question is whether it\u2019s serving you or holding you back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chaos isn\u2019t commitment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This one hit me hard: I was mistaking the hustle, the constant fire-fighting, the exhaustion for <em>dedication<\/em>. All it really created was burnout and resentment. Working around the clock isn\u2019t proof you care, it\u2019s proof you need a new plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hustle culture taught us that we need to work 24\/7 to be successful business owners. We glorify the exhaustion and lack of boundaries as \u201ccommitment\u201d to our businesses. The truth is that it\u2019s chaos, and it doesn\u2019t have to be this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CEOs are the visionaries who lay the roadmap for the business. That\u2019s what your business needs you to embody. Not the overtired, stressed-out leader who creates chaos. For tangible tips on how to reduce chaos in your business, listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/working-less-to-make-more\">episode 44 with Shay Cochran<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to shift into a CEO mindset<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This shift into a CEO mindset doesn\u2019t have to be dramatic. It just has to be intentional. Here\u2019s how I started leading my business instead of letting it lead me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Redefine Your Role for the Business You <em>Want<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The first step to shifting into a CEO mindset is to redefine your role in your business. You need to think about what you want your business and your role to look like in six months, a year from now, and several years down the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What choices can you make today to create the business you want to have in ten years? It\u2019s crucial to look up from where you\u2019re at and look at where you\u2019re going.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you do this step, you can eliminate decision fatigue in your business. It makes it so much easier to say yes to the right things and no to the wrong things because you\u2019re letting your vision for the future guide you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Create an \u201conly I can do\u201d list<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, make a list of the tasks that only you can do in your business. Then, make a list of the tasks you can delegate or automate to free up your time and creative genius. If you don\u2019t have a team working under you yet, explore AI tools that can carry some of the burden for you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re in the beginning stages of building a team, listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/curse-of-expertise\">episode 76 with Audrey Joy Kwan<\/a>. She emphasizes that <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/how-to-delegate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"delegating\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"5033\">delegating<\/a> tasks is not just to save you time, but to empower your team members to take ownership and show that you trust them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Block CEO time on the calendar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, a crucial part of stepping up as a CEO is protecting your time. You need to add \u201cCEO time\u201d to your calendar and honor it every week. This is your time to reset and serve as the visionary for your business. It\u2019s not a time for daily tasks or looking at your finances.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you only have 30 minutes a week, set aside time to ask yourself what taking ownership of your business looks like. How are you creating the business you want to have in one, five, or ten years? What are the things that only you can do, and what can you automate or delegate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What would a seven-figure business owner do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Want an easy way to tell if you\u2019re operating as a CEO or not? Ask yourself this simple question: Would a seven-figure business owner do this?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Important sections<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[3:31] It\u2019s time for a shift<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[4:03] Every day tasks are slowing you down<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[8:48] Confusing chaos for commitment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[16:25] How to shift into a CEO mindset<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[25:07] What would a seven-figure business owner do?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources mentioned<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/working-less-to-make-more\">Episode 44: The secret to working less so you can make more<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeybook.com\/blog\/curse-of-expertise\">Episode 76: Breaking out of the curse of expertise<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id='lightbox-inline-form-72d76c86-612d-405d-b925-c461f6acfb95'><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-accordion ugb-accordion ugb-5153b4e ugb-accordion--v2 ugb-accordion--design-basic ugb-main-block\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-accordion__item\"><div class=\"ugb-accordion__heading\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\"><h4 class=\"ugb-accordion__title\">Episode transcript<\/h4><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\" class=\"ugb-accordion__arrow\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"><path d=\"M16.7 3.3L10 10 3.3 3.4 0 6.7l10 10v-.1l10-9.9z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><div class=\"ugb-accordion__content\" role=\"region\"><div class=\"ugb-accordion__content-inner\">\n<p>Welcome back to another episode of the Unbreakable Business Podcast. I&#8217;m your host, Akua Kdu, and today we are going to be talking about what does it mean to be a CEO in your business. I know all of us, we say like, yes, I&#8217;m the CEO of my business. I own my business, but there is a difference between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owning your business and being an actual CEO in your business. And these are shifts that I have been making that I&#8217;m starting to see a difference. And so that is what I&#8217;m gonna talk about today of we talk about how being in the weeds can really slow you down as a business owners and what questions you need to be asking yourself to really show, okay, am I being a CEO in my business or not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I think that this is a conversation that. We just gotta keep having at the forefront as business owners, right? Because we have an incredible vision of what it is that we wanna do. And so this is a way to help make sure that we are putting our goals at the forefront all the time. And you know, like I said, if we have to adjust and shift, that&#8217;s okay, but at the end of the day, we putting ourselves first, putting our goals first in our business and making sure that we are truly staying aligned so that we are creating a business that truly, uh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brings us so much joy and also to makes an impact. So let&#8217;s get into the episode. Welcome to Unbreakable Business, the podcast where we uncover the untold stories behind entrepreneurship. This isn&#8217;t about polished success stories. It&#8217;s about the sleepless nights, unexpected roadblocks in unshakeable grit that builds businesses that last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week we sit down with entrepreneurs who faced it all, sharing raw, honest conversations about challenges, growth, and the moments. That made them unbreakable. Whether you&#8217;re just starting out or chasing your next breakthrough, this podcast is your reminder that you have the strength to keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s episode, I am really excited to talk about it, kind of where I&#8217;ve been at these past three months, and I&#8217;ve really taken the time to really lean into what it really means to be a CEO in your business. I know. As we are business owners, we&#8217;re either solo, many of us are solopreneurs. We&#8217;re, you know, either building a small or we have a small team currently building a team, or you know, we already do have a team wherever we&#8217;re at in our journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that stepping more into a CEO role, we hear that a lot, but what does that actually really look like as business owners, and I know many of us, depending on your industry, we&#8217;re either, you know, summer&#8217;s here, so we&#8217;re either really in the. Thick of it with our busy season, or we&#8217;re really taking that time to just relax and enjoy ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so either way, I really wanna encourage you as you listen to this episode, to really carve out some time to really process and reflect and really think about where you&#8217;re at in your business journey and where you honestly wanna go. Because I know that&#8217;s where I have currently. Currently been. And I think it&#8217;s just so important for us to be consistently revisiting that so we can stay grounded in what our vision is because it&#8217;s so easy to forget, I don&#8217;t wanna say forget, but maybe deprioritize what that vision is when you&#8217;re in your day to day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like I said, some of us are in our busy season. Um, and so what does that, what does that look like? And so that&#8217;s what we are talking about today because you have built something so powerful as a business owner, right? You are making such an incredible impact. Like the work that you do is so valuable. So.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to grow, how can we really make your vision come to life to where you can impact so many more people? And so that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m really excited to really, for us to talk about. You know how to lead like the business that you&#8217;re building. How can we start showing up as this, you know, whether I wanna be a, a hit six figures or more, how can I start to show up as that business owner?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can I start to show up as that CEO? And so that is what I&#8217;m really excited for us to lean in today. But, you know, one of the major things that was, uh, come to Jesus moment kind of in my business was, you know, what got me here as a business owner to where I am at this current point. Is not going to be what gets me to where I want to go, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like there are some changes that I really need to make. There are some ways that I really have to lean in and operate in a different way, really get to know myself in a different way in order to get to where I wanna get to. And so one of the main things for me is that I realized is that how being in the weeds, honestly, it really slows you down as a business owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, a lot of these everyday tasks. Can really buckle you down. And we hear this all the time of automate, right? But I think it&#8217;s just so important because number one is decision fatigue is real. And yeah, girl, I have absolutely, that is something I struggle with where I become, when you first start out with it, it&#8217;s so easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re like, okay, like it&#8217;s so easy to make a quick decision. You&#8217;re like, all right, yeah, no problem. You hurry and stop what I&#8217;m doing really quick and make this quick decision. And you do a couple times and you&#8217;re like, all right, yeah, that&#8217;s fine. I can get back and go into my work. But the more that you do it, that&#8217;s more times that you&#8217;re losing and that&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Um, energy that you&#8217;re wasting. And so that&#8217;s something I do wanna lean into is that like, number one, the reason why you are being in the weeds and it&#8217;s really slowing you down as a growth as a business owner is because decision fatigue is so real and so, you know. If you are taking that time to fulfill every client, ask if you are, every single piece of content needs to be reviewed or you know, then your ability to think strategically evaporates that context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Switching, right? Like that slows us down. I&#8217;m pretty sure research has shown that when you stop what you&#8217;re doing, especially when you&#8217;re in that deep work to go, you know, answer a quick email, you know. Stop really quick to go review something else that can really slow you down and that can eventually really burn you out and, and honestly can lead possibly to resentment in your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that, that&#8217;s one thing that I have really been seeing and that&#8217;s something that I have even been dealing with with, of like, okay, like how do I get out of this decision fatigue? Number two is like, things get bottlenecked, right? Like if you feel like my business. Cannot run without me. Like if you take a day off and you feel like your business is gonna crumble, where like you are, like I can&#8217;t even take a week off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I know, again, we hear this all the time, but I know so many business owners who have been in the game and they&#8217;re still currently telling me right now, Akua, I have literally, I have been in business for over five years and I have never taken a vacation. And so again, that&#8217;s where you have to really sit down and really reevaluate of like what your systems are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In in place, right to where like if you feel like you cannot take time to step away from your business, that&#8217;s where you really have to ask yourself some really hard hitting questions. And so I think that&#8217;s something important. If progress in your business stops when you&#8217;re try to rest, if you&#8217;re sick or if you have to take different meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If progress in your business stops, then you gotta go back and really. Revise some things because life be lifeing, right? Like it doesn&#8217;t matter. Things always happen whether good or bad, whatever. Like life is an incredible, beautiful journey, but sometimes it can be hard and so. If anything happens in your life that can stop the progress of your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Um, and of course there&#8217;s naturally already extenuating circumstances, but just some general things, like I said, like if you want to rest, take that vacation. If that&#8217;s gonna halt the progress of your business, then you have to really take that time to really start asking yourself some really hard questions, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because as a CEO, you are that person. You are that visionary. You are laying down the roadmap. You have to take that time to really. Recalibrate to really reset so that you are the best version of yourself to be able to build the business and uphold that vision because you have people that are right, like people care about your business because you have to make them care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you already have those people that are there for you, right? You gotta make sure that you are the best version of you because they are excited too, to help you fulfill your dream. So that&#8217;s one thing I really wanna hone in on is of like, if you&#8217;re finding yourself in the weeds, it&#8217;s because like if everything is bottlenecked, like nothing can move without you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you have a small team, you still feel like, okay, I have people that I delegated things to and I, and all of that, but it&#8217;s still not making a difference for me. I still feel like I have to be involved in everything. Again, that&#8217;s where you have to really take the time to ask yourself, as business owners, what am I doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do things look like for me? What do I want my future to look like? So that&#8217;s another point as well. And I think one thing that I want people to realize is, is that in your business, if you can&#8217;t step away. You have not built a business, and it&#8217;s like you have built a system, right? Because systems are all around us, whether we believe it or not, how we operate in our life is a system, how we operate in our business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a type of system. Now, it could be a system that&#8217;s serving you or not, and so if you can&#8217;t step away from your business. It is a system where you are at the center of it and a system like that is super fragile. A system like that is not sustainable. A system like that is not doable. And so again, you have to really start asking yourself as a business owner is like, what kind of system can I create where I am not the center?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because you are human, right? And as humans we, things happen, you know, things happen. And that&#8217;s just the beauty of life. And so, you know, you have to really ask yourself of how do I take myself out of the center of that? So there&#8217;s that. That&#8217;s something I want you to think of. And the third thing is, and this is something that I realized and was very eye-opening for me, and I hope it is for you too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We sometimes confuse chaos for commitment in our business. And I. Let me explain what that is because this was something I was so guilty of and I find myself getting into those habits constantly where responding to endless messages, not honoring yourself. Not honoring yourself by like taking a break, not honoring yourself, but like even taking the time to make yourself lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know that constant hustle 24 7, where you are sacrificing your health, your peace of mind. We view that as well. This is my commitment to my business and. You know, I don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what it is. You know what I mean? I think. That doesn&#8217;t mean that you care more for your business. 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And if what it costs you outweighs what you can gain from it, then really then you gotta really reevaluate and re-strategize. I think. We have to really take that time to be a lot more strategic in our business and stop confusing chaos for commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the more chaotic and the more you keep dishonoring yourself and your boundaries, you know, you don&#8217;t get a reward for that. If anything, you just end up resenting your business and being frustrated, um, and feeling like you&#8217;re never enough. And so that is. Those three key things that I think really just keeps us slowing down as business owners just being in the weeds, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That decision fatigue, you know, everything&#8217;s being bottlenecked and really confusing chaos for commitment. There are some subtle signs in your business that can show up as that you are not fully operating as a CEO and. Like I said, I&#8217;ll be in my day to day and then all of a sudden I have to actually take the time to really pause and reflect and be like, damn, do I need to be doing this right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or is this something that I can automate? Right. Or is it something I can give to somebody else? And so one of the main things that popped up for me was where we confuse urgency. I. With importance. That was that. That was a major one for me, right? Like I&#8217;m spending, again, all of my day reacting. Everything that I was doing was reacting from emails, text messages, client work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything about me that I was doing was very reactionary. It wasn&#8217;t where I felt a lot of ease, where I felt like there were smooth transitions in between my day. That was a one thing for me where I was like, I&#8217;m not operating as a CEO. The second major thing is not protecting your time, and I always go back to think of one of my top episodes that I listen to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From our previous show, the Independent Business Podcast, we had an episode with Shea Cochrane. And you know, she built a multi six figure business by only 16 hours a week. And so that&#8217;s all that she had because she didn&#8217;t want to sacrifice the important things in her life, like being a mom, being a wife, you know, being there for her family, you know, being there for her friends, whatever that looks like for her, she did not wanna sacrifice that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I think a lot of the times we. We think that in order to be successful, again, we have to sacrifice some of the things that really value that are important to us. And I love her story because she shows us that you truly can have it all. It&#8217;s absolutely possible. 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