How do I hire help when I've always done it all myself?

You say you need help but don't know how to hire or manage anyone. What you mean is: everything runs through you, and you're afraid it will fall apart the moment it doesn't. The fear is not really about paperwork or interviews. It is about handing over work you've never had to explain, because you've never had to explain it before. You've been both the one who knows and the one who does. Now you must become the one who teaches. That is within your power, starting today. Choose one task. Write down exactly how you do it, step by step, as if for someone who knows nothing. If you cannot write it down, you do not understand it as well as you believed. That is the real work — not the hiring, the writing.

◆ How this problem reads on the two dials

GuidanceKnowledge

More coaching

Some to learn

1:1 with AureliusWith others (a Pod)

Mostly you & the coach

A little with peers

The mechanics of hiring can be looked up in an afternoon; the harder work is behavioral — writing down hidden knowledge and tolerating imperfect execution by others — so guidance carries the page.

How the two dials adapt to you →

What’s really going on

You don't need a course in management. You need to write down, in plain steps, what is in your head. Do that today, for one task. What you can put on paper, you can hand to another. What you can't, you were never doing on purpose — you were just doing.

🔒 What you’ll build togetherUnlock by starting

A movePick one task you do every week. Write it down in plain steps, as if teaching a stranger.

A moveHand that single written task to one person this week, even if the result is rough.

A moveDo not redo their work in silence. Tell them, in writing, what wrong looks like.

A moveNotice what you had to explain twice. That gap is in your instructions, not their skill.

A moveName one decision you will never hand over. Let everything else go.

What changes unlock by starting

A written process for at least one task, instead of knowledge locked only in your head.
A small, low-risk test of delegation before you risk something that matters.
A clear line between what you truly can't explain and what you simply won't release.
Less relief in control, more honesty about what control is costing you.

One object, two jobs: a public answer to a real problem, and — the moment you start the chat — Aurelius’s live plan for your version of it.