Symptoms of small business burnout and how to manage it

When you are business is not doing well, you are likely to come under work pressure resulting in to stress. What is business owner burnout? It is the lack of interest in daily work and feeling of exhaustion which obviously results in to poor performance. It is attributed to feeling heavy stress for an extended time and continuing pressure to live up to expectation and applied standards. For us it is no new experience because we at some point of our past life might have come across stress related to business or work. Business burnout somewhat creeps in to our lives in spite of well organized professional activities.  Burnout feeling in business can strike at the most inappropriate moment so it is necessary that you lead a life in a well organized manner without bothering for small setbacks. Try to take issues head on instead of shying away as it will boost your confidence and strengthen your business management skills.

Small business owners experience maximum stress when their much anticipated business aspiration does not live up to expectation. Success in business boost confidence and failure in business will lead to stress and burnout. This can assume bigger proportions if you do not attend to it immediately.

How small business owner depression originates?

When you start a small business burnout you dive headlong in to it and work day and night pouring your energy which obviously leads to overstimulation of hormones related to hyper activities. You use your will power, adrenaline, caffeine etc to compensate the exhaustion. This may deplete your high activity hormone levels which will lead to slow down. In an attempt to speed up work you get more exhausted resulting in sickness, accidents, and memory loss. To recover from these you start taking stimulants available over the counter and consume excessive amount of coffee to battle fatigue. If continued you lose your self esteem and you start feeling that you are inadequate and in the process self confidence and self esteem.

Symptoms

• You are eternally tired and grow alarmingly thin or fat. You are always complaining and grumpy. You face sleeping issues due to the continuous racing of thoughts in your mind.
• You get irritated at work and with your colleagues or workforce, you start throwing temper tantrums and start crying
• You feel difficulty in remembering names of your kith and kin, or passwords
• You tend to get frequently ill or prone to accidents. In advanced cases you start taking drugs or anti-depressants and become addicted to them

These may have serious consequences with your health and you should ponder over consulting a stress management program that is available in your neighbourhood by experts. The sooner you do that the better it is for you and your small business.