The Business Bulletin
How do you manage overwhelm? What is overwhelm? Here’s an official definition: “If something overwhelms someone, it is too much, or almost too much, for them to manage”
If you are running a one person or
The obvious solution is to
about to share it with you but…the
small business then this may sound
outsource some of the other stuff to
fact that I am writing this on a Sunday
very familiar. Most of us start our
experts but we need to be earning
morning is evidence that I haven’t!
business because we love what we are
enough money to be able to do that!
However, I have learned some ways
doing…and then we discover that we
Lack of time to focus on sales and
of managing so that I can generally
have to do lots of other things as well –
marketing may inhibit our ability to
stay below the “too much to manage”
marketing, sales, admin, accounts, etc.
grow our business sufficiently to have
ceiling and other ways of minimising
the money we need and so we can
the effects on my mental and
end up in a vicious circle, which often
emotional health.
It’s so easy to find ourselves working 7 days a week and still not seeming to make any real impression on that to-do list, often finding that it’s getting longer rather than shorter!
leads to…overwhelm. I wish that I could say that I have found the perfect solution and am
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So let’s start with some practical ideas. I am a great believer in lists, though they can make things seem
