The stress of running your own business can be a real killer, if you let it.
Having been in business and felt the stress, I ultimately learned how to deal with it by first learning the symptoms. Some of the indicators of my stress filled business day were as the following ...
- Not being able to plan my day in a sensible manner.
- Taking each small upset as a major catastrophe.
- Everything would always have to be completed in a hurry
- 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 so it could be accomplished inside 8 hours. If I realized that this was most unlikely to do, then I reduced the days targets to fit in the time available. I learned to delegate.
When a plan goes pear shaped. I honestly picked out what happened, then learned from this and either corrected the issue or abandoned it and put it down to experience. Working out how to cut your losses is frequently the speediest and cheapest way of resolving a difficulty 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.
Organize your work day better by looking at each new job; calculating the additional time required to accomplish the job and then weighing the return. Ask is it worthwhile?
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 give yourself time for both. If not you are damned to face up to the consequences of being friendless, drinking too much and probably ending up divorced.
Business Stress is normally self-induced and always best self-cured. Identify the causes that can have an adverse effect on you and eventually you will find the cure.
Having been in business and felt the stress, I ultimately learned how to deal with it by first learning the symptoms. Some of the indicators of my stress filled business day were as the following ...
- Not being able to plan my day in a sensible manner.
- Taking each small upset as a major catastrophe.
- Everything would always have to be completed in a hurry
- 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 so it could be accomplished inside 8 hours. If I realized that this was most unlikely to do, then I reduced the days targets to fit in the time available. I learned to delegate.
When a plan goes pear shaped. I honestly picked out what happened, then learned from this and either corrected the issue or abandoned it and put it down to experience. Working out how to cut your losses is frequently the speediest and cheapest way of resolving a difficulty 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.
Organize your work day better by looking at each new job; calculating the additional time required to accomplish the job and then weighing the return. Ask is it worthwhile?
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 give yourself time for both. If not you are damned to face up to the consequences of being friendless, drinking too much and probably ending up divorced.
Business Stress is normally self-induced and always best self-cured. Identify the causes that can have an adverse effect on you and eventually you will find the cure.
About the Author:
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
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