When you run your own business, stress is a common issue you’ll face. I work long hours, spending 8 hours in the office, but working for an hour or so before I go in, and several hours after I come home. Lately I’ve been going strong until about 2am each night. This gets to be very taxing.
As an entrepreneur, you’ll always be stressed and busy. There’s always things to do, things to read, new things to learn. You’ll feel overwhelmed often, but push through it and you just might be successful.
Don’t let stress get the better of you, though. It’s easy to get negative when you’re overstressed, and it affects everyone around you.
Bosses tend to do this, and I’m guilty of it too. In the beginning of a company, people are all close, from the top down to the bottom. But as the company grows, the boss has to extricate themselves from the social aspect of the group. This is rarely well accepted, especially by people who’ve been there from the beginning. It’s not a mistake the boss made. It’s an important move, because the boss has to be the boss, not a friend. The further removed they are, the easier it is to act like a boss and perform the harder tasks, like reprimand, suspension, and firing.
However, this causes stress for the employees, because their relationship with the boss has changed. Now the boss is cold to them, professional, all business, and it leaves a bad taste in the employees mouths. So what do you do to alleviate this stress? Well, I sure went through it a while back, and I have a couple ideas to help out.
First off, the employees need to band together and understand this is the natural progression of things. Sure, it sucks, but it’s a necessary evil both for the boss and the employees.
The employees need to use each other for support to get through it, and eventually it’ll all work out. Schedule events, generate a rapport, lean on each other to alleviate the stress.
I know, it sounds stupid, but you just have to accept it. It’s better for the company, better for the boss, better for the employees.
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