Dad for a Minute

This is why you need loyal and dependable managers/assistants working for you. You’ll be sacrificing a bit of money but you will be helping keep you sane and potentially live longer due to less stress.

My dad went through this and I watched him suffer for it. He should have hired middlemen to help run the business and when he went ill, he relied on me and my mom to help with the business instead.

You need to decide what jobs this person or these people will need to do to help you run this business. These need to be trustworthy people because you want them to rely on you as little as possible. Otherwise you will have them calling you and bothering you, not to the same extent, but it will continue and you won’t get free time away from the business.

You also need to set times when you want to be away. Times when you are to only be contacted when it is an absolute emergency. Again, these need to be trustworthy people because you will be putting the business fully in their hands. Think of this as a daycare and you are leaving your baby in their hands while you and your wife go travel the world for a week. You need to know your baby is in good hands and won’t be neglected or taken advantage of and that happens by hiring only the person/people you trust. Preferably people as a group so they hold each other accountable, in theory.

These will likely be manager or assistant roles who report directly to you. I’d suggest determining what duties need to be done and then you can have a better idea of how many duties can be assigned to a role, whether one person can realistically take it on in your absence or if you need multiple positions to separate these duties. In doing so, you may also be indirectly growing the business and be able to expand your clientele, expand the services/products you offer, and/or raise prices to keep up with the new roles that will be added to help improve performance and overall employee morale.