How Top Home Based Businesses Deal With Stress
Stress is a major issue for everyone and top home based businesses are not immune to this
, although some stressful situations are eliminated by working from home others can be created. However, much of this stress can be avoided by adopting a few procedures thus ensuring both owner and business remains healthy.
It is important to recognize that stress does exist; however, it is just as important to remember that it can be reduced or in some cases, avoided.
The starting point is to identify as many possible stressful situations as you possibly can and at the same time realizing that there are always those times when unforeseen things happen that throw us into a tailspin! Not only will you have work related stress, but family and friends create stress for you too.
Once you have done that you can now start working out ways in which to handle these in a cool, calm and collected way when they occur. Yes, they will happen, and knowing that they will gives you the upper hand to be prepared and have a "procedure manual" to deal with them.
Each situation will require a different approach but some basic procedures can be applied to all.
When a stressful time occurs, take a deep breath and try to relax. Try to remain happy and cheerful as this will enable you to have a clearer mind. I do say try, because I do know that this is really hard to do, but if you keep practicing it will become easier.
Having a clearer mind will enable you to better handle any situation. In dealing with highly emotional and stressful times such as family illnesses or accidents, try removing the emotion out of the situation and try to be a little cold hearted if possible. This is not easy to do but if you practice it then you will find it is a great help. By letting the emotion take over you will not be able to function which is extremely important in life-threatening situations especially with loved ones.
To avoid stress caused by work overload, have a schedule and diary and plan everything out. Know when your deadlines and commitments are. By doing this you can organize your various tasks and duties to be done in a timely, well structured manner without any nasty surprises. Ensure that this schedule can be flexible enough to allow for any unforeseen circumstances. Do not overload yourself with too many tasks and duties. You can say no to requests from others because you and you alone are in charge of your schedule.
Plan your work so that you are on top of your tasks and do not allow them to be on top of you as by doing this you will have much better control of the workflow.
Ensure that you have plenty of rest breaks including having time away from the work in which you do something special for yourself and getting totally away from everything even for a short time. During this special time, do not allow yourself to even think about your troubles, make yourself think of pleasurable things instead.
If you are getting overwhelmed with work, then think about getting some help. This can be done by hiring someone to do some of the work for you or getting the family involved. If this is not possible, just take things one day at a time, do the work in small steps, multitask wherever possible and cut down the actual amount you do by reprioritizing your tasks and goals.
Talking to others is a great stress breaker, so do not bottle things up - find someone whom you trust to talk to, even if you have to go to a professional it is far better than you keeping quiet and getting more stressed out.
There are other ways to break the stress such as having a pet, spending time with loved ones or having a creative and relaxing hobby. Please do not turn to drugs or alcohol for help as these will only make things worse in the long run.
Also ensure that you take care of yourself by eating properly, drinking plenty of water and exercising.
Whatever the situation is, do not worry too much about it, and just tackle it head on which you can do because you do have the skills, talents and ability to deal with it. Then, when you have survived it, give yourself a little reward.
Please take care of yourselves and work out your own personal stress management plan. By doing this you will enjoy having your top home based businesses.
by: Annette Cole
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