Inevitably the demands on you will exceed your capacity. It’s not you. You may have tremendous capacity, but it’s finite. The demands are nearly infinite. You have three basic strategies for dealing with this disparity between your responsibilities and your capacity.

Delegate: give the responsibility to someone else.

Degrade: do a less complete, lower quality job.

Drop: leave a task unfinished, a problem unsolved.

These are in order from easiest to hardest. You got to the position you’re in by doing a lot of things and doing them well. Doing things poorly and not doing them at all will go against your instincts and habits. However, they’re also in order from least important. To scale up, you have to be okay with lowering your standards. You have to be okay leaving important problems unsolved. If you can’t, then you’re creating a ceiling on what you’ll be able to achieve.