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Stretched Beyond the Breaking Point? How to Manage Your Stress Better!
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Article Overview: As the economy grinds to a halt, more small business owners are starting to feel stretched - for cashflow, for goodwill, for sanity. The first step away from stress and feeling over-stretched is to consolidate with your support team.
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Stretched Beyond the Breaking Point? How to Manage Your Stress Better!
What's
that I hear? You don't have one? Business owners often have a sense
that they have to shoulder their burdens alone. Often our needs come
last - after clients, staff, suppliers, the bank manager and our
friends and families.
Many of us have grown up in times when it has been seen to be a good thing to be independent (and it is!), but often we have misidentified this independence with never, ever asking for help, no matter how bad things are. Just like the economy, that approach just doesn't work anymore!
Just before Christmas I had lunch with my dearest girlfriends - we're moving towards 25 years of friendship - but still, we often forget to ask each other for help.
We hadn't seen each other for months and there were lots of big discussions on the table. At the end of that lunch we made a promise to each other to pick up the phone and ask for support when we need it - not to wait until our busy lives allow a small window of opportunity for a catchup!
Sometimes it is these small but incredibly life-affirming commitments that give a greater sense of empowerment. What could you do if you knew your support net was available any time? So, create and maintain a support network of likeminded people. There is strength in numbers! You are no longer the weakest link!
What can you do with your support team?
Related ArticlesMany of us have grown up in times when it has been seen to be a good thing to be independent (and it is!), but often we have misidentified this independence with never, ever asking for help, no matter how bad things are. Just like the economy, that approach just doesn't work anymore!
Just before Christmas I had lunch with my dearest girlfriends - we're moving towards 25 years of friendship - but still, we often forget to ask each other for help.
We hadn't seen each other for months and there were lots of big discussions on the table. At the end of that lunch we made a promise to each other to pick up the phone and ask for support when we need it - not to wait until our busy lives allow a small window of opportunity for a catchup!
Sometimes it is these small but incredibly life-affirming commitments that give a greater sense of empowerment. What could you do if you knew your support net was available any time? So, create and maintain a support network of likeminded people. There is strength in numbers! You are no longer the weakest link!
What can you do with your support team?
- Share ideas and get feedback on what you are doing - sometimes an external perspective makes hard decisions simpler.
- Ask for practical advice - look for people who have complementary skills to yours and share your expertise generously with each other.
- Share the ups and downs, be willing to offer a shoulder to cry on and a hand up, as well as celebrate the wins - big or small!!
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"Breaking Windows" tells the story of the battle for the soul of Microsoft that raged inside the company from 1997 to 2000 and continues to reverbrate today." The book "breaks new ground in its analysis of Microsoft's past and future business strategies. As Microsoft faces the waning importance of Windows, rallies behind XML, and confronts the open-source insurgency, the past Bank reveals is vital to understanding the future of this company and the still unfinished digital revolution it helped unleash.
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