Have you ever been in a stressful situation?. I don't mean opening the £350.00 gas bill when you only have £20.00 in the bank I mean serious full-on unrelenting stress, every minute of the day seven days a week?.
Well, I can tell you from experience it's not for the faint hearted.
Building a successful business means going out on a limb, going that extra mile, having a vision and more importantly a plan on how you are going to get there. What you can't factor in is just how you are going to manage when you are suddenly confronted with not one, but five or six problems, all at once. The trouble with business is that you can plan all you like, you can do cash flow forecasts, be defensive in your spending and have an aggressive stance towards credit control, all these will help but only you and that determination to succeed will see if you have the stamina to be successful.
The last few weeks I have changed course with my business and it has proved a success in more ways than one, customers are coming to us regularly and life should be rosy but in reality as the owner and overseer I am so busy on a daily basis i neither stop or sometimes even get chance to eat. I am more tired than I have ever been and the mental stress sucks the very life out of you drop by drop.
Exercise and early nights are always a great help, they give you the stamina to fight back and feel good about yourself but the reality is it's a short term fix, it cant continue. Stress is notorious for creeping up on you unawares, combine that with stress at home and it doubles your chance of serious illness, alarmist that may seem but it's a fact.
So, how to best avoid it?. I like to think we are masters of our own destiny so therefore my way of combating stress would be to spread the load. Employ someone in the office or the workshops, in fact better the office as, though i am an equal opportunities employer, I think the business lives or dies with the response from that first phone call.
If after all this you are still feeling like myself, drained, numb,fatigued,mostly worthless and feeling like you are everyones kicking boy you only have one avenue to fall back on, get the hell out for at least a week if not two and get your self a well deserved break because believe me no-one is Superman in the world of business and if you think you are, well I can assure you your reign will be very Pope-like in it's longevity.
So take some good advice from an old dog, if it feels like you can't cope more often than not then chances are you aren't and the business and you will suffer.
Take that break.
Well, I can tell you from experience it's not for the faint hearted.
Building a successful business means going out on a limb, going that extra mile, having a vision and more importantly a plan on how you are going to get there. What you can't factor in is just how you are going to manage when you are suddenly confronted with not one, but five or six problems, all at once. The trouble with business is that you can plan all you like, you can do cash flow forecasts, be defensive in your spending and have an aggressive stance towards credit control, all these will help but only you and that determination to succeed will see if you have the stamina to be successful.
The last few weeks I have changed course with my business and it has proved a success in more ways than one, customers are coming to us regularly and life should be rosy but in reality as the owner and overseer I am so busy on a daily basis i neither stop or sometimes even get chance to eat. I am more tired than I have ever been and the mental stress sucks the very life out of you drop by drop.
Exercise and early nights are always a great help, they give you the stamina to fight back and feel good about yourself but the reality is it's a short term fix, it cant continue. Stress is notorious for creeping up on you unawares, combine that with stress at home and it doubles your chance of serious illness, alarmist that may seem but it's a fact.
So, how to best avoid it?. I like to think we are masters of our own destiny so therefore my way of combating stress would be to spread the load. Employ someone in the office or the workshops, in fact better the office as, though i am an equal opportunities employer, I think the business lives or dies with the response from that first phone call.
If after all this you are still feeling like myself, drained, numb,fatigued,mostly worthless and feeling like you are everyones kicking boy you only have one avenue to fall back on, get the hell out for at least a week if not two and get your self a well deserved break because believe me no-one is Superman in the world of business and if you think you are, well I can assure you your reign will be very Pope-like in it's longevity.
So take some good advice from an old dog, if it feels like you can't cope more often than not then chances are you aren't and the business and you will suffer.
Take that break.
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