Feeling Overwhelmed: Here are a few tips to help you out
You have calls to make, letters to write, bills to pay, and
marketing to do. You can't seem to concentrate on anything and
you are feeling overwhelmed. We all do at one time or another,
that's one of the downfalls of running your own business. How do
you handle it? Do you become irritated, do you throw things, or
do you cry? Well you don't really need to do any of those things.
Many times I have seen people get upset. I have even gotten
upset myself. It seems like you have so much to do and not
enough time to do it. Well, it's time to take a deep breath.
When you are feeling overwhelmed, it's time to take a break and
put your priorities in order. Close the door to your office and
tell everyone not to disturb you, then get to work. Write down a
list of things you need to do. After you do that, decide which
one is the most important.
Here is an example list:
Customer Callbacks
Marketing
Bookkeeping
Administrative Work
Let's put it into perspective:
Customer Callbacks-Do that first because you don't want to lose
potential customers
Bookkeeping-Do that next because if it's the end of the month
you want to get your invoices and bills out as soon as possible.
Administrative Work-You have letters to write to potential and
current customers so do your administrative work next. By
writing the letter and calling customers you just did some
Marketing.
Guess what, you are all done now go home and get some rest.
If you regroup once a day you will stay organized, be less
overwhelmed and feel like you actually accomplished something.
If you still feel overwhelmed, you could take a look at what you
have to do and outsource some of your work to a virtual
assistant. The letters, the data entry, and the administrative
tasks take up a lot of your valuable time. So outsourcing to a
virtual assistant could free up time for you to spend with
family, your customers, or yourself. Asking for help would also
help you and your business become more productive.