#248: It's too hard! What to do when business is overwhelming - Tash Corbin, Heart-Centred Business Podcast

Show notes can be found at tashcorbin.com/248 In today's episode, I'm going to help you address the big, horrible issue of what to do when everything just feels too hard and business is overwhelming. When business is overwhelming, how do you address it? This is a really helpful episode for preventative means as well as addressing it after it's come up. Regardless of whether you're in 'its too hard' mode right now, or whether you want to prevent it from coming up in the future, this is going to be a very helpful episode for you. I don't know if I've ever met an entrepreneur who hasn't experienced burnout, patterns of overworking or a feeling of business being overwhelming. It can be very easy to decide that having a business is: Too hard Not worth it Taking up too much time Not your hearts work to be doing marketing and all the bits and pieces that come with having a business Harder than just going back and getting a job At the end of the day, you decided that you wanted to start a business for a reason. Even though it can sometimes feel like business is overwhelming and hard, it doesn't necessarily mean that that's just part and parcel of having your own business. In fact, when we get to spot the signs of burnout, overwhelm, overworking or any of the other signs that things just aren't working appropriately for us, and we address them quickly and effectively, we make our business easier and easier. It becomes more and more of a joy. One of the big things that I've noticed is that the burnout effect or feeling like your business is overwhelming or too hard is multiplied when you're also not making money. Think about some of the beliefs that you have about what it takes to grow your business and make great money from your business. If you're on social media for two hours a day and it's not working, you're not getting any feedback from people, not getting any connections or messages back from people, then that feels really overwhelming, and that feels like the path to burnout. But if I said to you that in two hours a day on social media, you can make $50,000 a month in sales, would you still feel the same way? Probably not. When you're not making money from particular activities - especially the marketing and sales parts of your business - that's when that overwhelm is multiplied. That's when that sense of overworking and the feeling of needing to work more and needing to work harder can actually snowball into something bigger than it ever needed to be. All of that being said, even if it is working, did you start a business to be feeling like you need to spread yourself thin? To feel like you are in a state of overwhelm all the time? Did you start a business to do hard things all of the time? Probably not. In this episode, I want to share with you my five strategies for dealing with that feeling that business is overwhelming and it's too hard or the signs and symptoms of moving towards burnout or overwhelm. One of the biggest signs for me is working harder than I normally would or working longer than I normally would. What I'm going to give you is my five-step strategy for addressing that overworking, preventing the overwhelm and burnout, or bouncing back from it. Hopefully you'll find this helpful. Let's dive into those five strategies. 1. Delivery for existing clients always comes first If I find myself feeling like I don't have time to do all the things in my business, or I'm feeling like business is overwhelming because of all the things I want to do, my number one priority is ensuring that I deliver to existing clients. Whether that's the clients inside my Let me know your thoughts via our Text FanMail!Join us in Noosa at the Heart-Centred Business Conference in September!Find out more and secure your ticket at: tashcorbin.com/conference