Dealing With Overwhelm In Your Business
If you are similar to most businesses owners, you’ve experienced overwhelm in your business at one time or another. Maybe you experience it regularly and for a good reason. So many things are popping up at one time. You’ve got marketing going, production to manage, calls to answer, employees that need your advice. It just never ends, right? How can you possibly handle it all?
Many of the small business owners that I speak with to, retain all of these things in their head. I ask them where their business plan is. It’s in their head. I ask where their employee training manual is. It’s in their head. About the only thing that’s penned down is their calendar of meetings. Even their to do lists are in their head. Here’s one easy and effective way to get out of overwhelm-write it all down.
Your overwhelm is in your head, due to the fact that most of how you run your business is in your head. Start writing it down on a piece of paper and you will start getting less overwhelm. Begin to take a little time each day to note your business processes. Create a list right now of the processes that you have not cataloged. Be sure to cover production, marketing, accounting, training, etc.
Then take one of these areas and record it in detail this week. Each week, for the next few weeks document another area. Within a short period of time, you should have at least the fundamentals of marketing procedures, production procedures, client follow up procedures, and employee training procedures in place. In other words, you have now got business processes. Procedures that you can rely on. Processes you don’t have to worry about. Processes that you will use to expand your business minus all that overwhelm, now that it’s all written down.
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