Stress – The Business Killer
The stress of running your own business will always be a real killer, if you let it.
Having been in business and felt the stress, I eventually learned how to handle it by first learning the symptoms. Some of the leading indications of my stress filled client filled day were as follows …
– Not having the ability to plan my day in a common sense fashion.
– Taking every tiny disappointment as a major disaster.
– Everything needed to be finished in a rush
– Never devoting time for relaxation, for family or for exercise.
I also learned that to reduce my daily stress, I had to …
Plan the days workload in order that it may be accomplished in less than 8 hours. If I realised this was not possible to do, then I reduced the days targets to fit inside the time available. I learned I had to delegate.
When a plan goes badly wrong. I truthfully picked out what failed, then learned from this and either corrected the difficulty or deserted it and put it down to experience. Learning to cut your losses is usually the fastest and least expensive way of resolving an issue and reducing stress.
When you’re always pressed for time and your life appears to be all hurry, hurry, because there is so much more left to do, then you have a problem. The simple reason for this is that you’ve taken on too much work which can only make you ineffective.
Adjust your work day better by taking a look at each and every new job; working out the maximum time you need to carry out the job and then weighing the return. Always question is it worth your while?
Everywhere I looked, I have always revealed that whenever business and family, work and relaxation are separated, both the business and the family are way more prosperous.
Stress, the business killer is reduced if you allow time for both. If not you are condemned to suffer the consequences of being friendless, drinking too much and potentially ending up divorced.
Business Stress is usually self-induced and always best self-cured. Identify the causes that affect you and you will find the cure.
Steve Coleman is a small business owner and together with his other half Celia they started an exciting new business from nothing. It proved to be a wonderful and profitable experience for them. The extensive research put into learning a totally new business was stimulating and the years of practical experience in small business management that they gained were useful
