We do what we can

Skill for personal organisation is a key element in achieving business success.

To handle psychological stress professional athletes keep saying:

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”.

In this article we will share a simple and very efficient method to handle psychological stress and stay cool.

 

Limits of our abilities.

One of the common mistakes of people trying to start a business is overcharging themselves with duties and responsibilities.

We tend to set goals too high and then lose confidence, when they appear to be impossible to achieve.

It is crucial to understand that not everything depends on us.

Sometimes we get tired or overwhelmed with stress. Sometimes find ourselves incapable of performing even the simplest work. It is natural and happens to everyone.

Sometimes things just don’t want to go our way and there is not much we can do. No matter how hard we try.

It is natural as well.

Being an entrepreneur means accepting reality and understanding our limits. Limits of our personal productivity, first of all.

Simple logic says that we cannot do what we cannot.

If a traffic light is red, then we just stay and wait. Disregarding of how badly we want to move already.

 

How to handle stress efficiently.

Professional athletes use some simple mantras to stay cool in overwhelming situations:

I do what I can, with what I have, where I am.

It might not help us to achieve a planned result, but it can definitely help us to keep calm and act at the highest level of our possible performance.

We cannot expect ourselves to deal with any situation, no matter how demanding and complicated it is.

Our goal is to stay focused and functional in unfavorable conditions.

 

Being entrepreneur is a big pressure.

The fear of financial losses is one of the reasons to deprive people of entrepreneurship.

The relevant statistics is pretty straightforward:

In the first 10 years after starting a business – 70% of startups will fail.

Meaning that if we organise a company today, then the chance to get bankrupt in the following ten years is 2/3.

And in fifteen years it will be 3/4.

Still, a slight risk of failure is not an excuse to avoid our own business activity.

We should never forget that being an entrepreneur is your natural state.

Our current employment is only a lead-up time.

 

Organise business smart way.

The first question is whether we are able to produce any commercial value. By commercial we mean the value which can be exchanged for money.

The second question is whether we understand who are the people, which will exchange their money for our value.

There are some other interesting questions:

• Do we have skilled and reliable people to handle challenges and organise work?
• How do we plan and distribute tasks?
• How do we supervise the quality of work?
• Which way do we communicate with our teams?
• How do we find a replacement if some of team members leave the project?

They are only the basic questions, to start with.

We better think about them, instead of thinking about how to fit into 30% in 10 years.

Organising business smart way – it is thinking about right things in the right time.

 

Increase personal efficiency.

We see now that our abilities are well limited.

There will definitely be situations which will demand the best of us to stay balanced and focused.

And even if we manage to keep inner peace, the chance of finding ourselves in overwhelming conditions is pretty high.

The only option to proceed with – gradually improve ourselves.

This is just what professional athletes do.

Allowing fails and losses is a part of a normal development routine. But the training process can never stop.

The same works for entrepreneurship – the more capable people we are, the bigger ventures we can undertake.

 

ByCycle – tool for increasing personal productivity.

In ByCycle, all our efforts are organised in a very simple, ergonomic way.

We developed our tool for smart and busy people.

We know how big is the pressure. We understand how valuable is your attention.

We did our best to increase your personal productivity.

Give ByCycle a try, and see how it works for you.

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