unless you're very explicit with your staff, they will default to asking for your approval

for all kinds of stuff and you won't actually end up empowering the people that work for you to make

decisions. Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt. And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller. And this is lead to win our weekly

podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life. If you're a business owner, we've got good

news for you because we're going to be talking about the five mistakes that every business owner

makes. Now, this comes out of our coaching practice where we coach entrepreneurs and executives

and we've found these business owners who have frequently, who frequently make these mistakes.

But the good news is you can overcome every one of them. Yeah, you know, I think we all want to

know how to avoid mistakes, right? Mistakes are painful and costly and gush. If you know what to

look out for, it's kind of half the battle. Well, here's the thing. I don't think you can actually

avoid mistakes. Yeah. But the great thing about coaching is that you don't have to make the

common mistakes, right? You can invent new and exciting mistakes. That's true. Well,

there's also kind of a continuum of mistakes that you can make. Some are, you know, slightly more

positive and some are just plain stupid. And if you can avoid the really stupid ones or the ones

where that you're going to, you're just going to slap your head at some point, then I think that's

a win. So this will be fun to talk about. Well, these are pretty significant mistakes that people

make, but they're often done with a lack of self-awareness. People don't know they're making a mistake

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So let's get into it. We've got five of them. The first one is this filling the day with low leverage

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