How to Deal With Stress in Starting Your Business? - Have A Freelancer.
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics, small businesses in Australia continuously increased over the years up to 2.1 Million businesses as of June 2015 statistics and 61% or more than half of these businesses have no employees. How do these business owners manage the stress in starting their businesses?
Common Stress Business Owners Deal With
Time Management
Business owners want to do all at the same time. If they have the superpowers to add more hours in a day, they would do. Sometimes, they feel that they have not accomplished anything even had done numerous business tasks.
Exhaustion of Energy
Running a business alone is not easy. Imagine that the business owners would do the administrative tasks, marketing, accounting, graphic design and literally everything. There would be sleepless nights, not eating on time, body aches, headaches, fatigue that business owners would exhaust all the energy they need for the succeeding days. All the time and efforts would be wasted just because of exhaustion of all their energy.
Wide Variety of Business Tasks
Businesses is not just accounting. It is not
just for legal requirements. It is not just marketing its products or services. A business is coordination of different business segments that contributes to its success.
Business owners are responsible to manage this business segments and formulate the right business strategy so this business segments will deliver success to them. The necessity of every business tasks is unpredictable and sometimes one task is needed to do at the same time another one needs to be accomplished.
Business owners are challenged to synchronize all business tasks in a way that business will be successful.
Keeping Mindset in Track
Having all these stress in starting a business,
business owners would lose their mindset in track. Business challenges might degrade the motivation of business owners to bring success and pull them down to the darkness of failure.
Common Tips to Deal with Stress
Orga nize a clean To-Do list
Plan your business tasks and schedule it right.
List down the business tasks you need to do. Then, note the priority tasks and put deadline on it so major business tasks that are essential for the priority needs of the business would not be missed in your schedule. The remaining business tasks should be plotted on your planner in a way that no business tasks will be sacrificed and all the needs of your business are sustained.
Maintain a tidy workplace and a stress-free area
A business owner’s mind is reflected by how he or she take charge of his or her surroundings. In the same way, crowded surroundings might also affect the thinking capacity of a business owner. Therefore a tidy working environment can give a business owner organized thoughts of business strategies.
Aside from a tidy working area, a business owner should find a place where he would not think anything related to his business. Some place wherein he can do his hobbies, favourite games, favourite past time. Somewhere he can get inspiration or just a place to rest and refresh.
Take a rest
Even computers automatically restart
itself when it gets tired how much more humans who do a lot of business tasks that consume them physically and mentally. Whenever you get exhausted with all the stress and tiring tasks, breathe three times. Take a rest. A healthy business needs a healthy owner. Be healthy. Eat healthy food and take a good sleep.
Always have a positive mindset
When everything seems not to be in its right
place and when business plans did not go the way they were planned, don’t panic. Always remind yourself of what is going right. List down all your accomplishments before the pending or unaccomplished tasks. You will be surprised and delighted that there are so many things you should be proud of than disappointed to.
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