Know Your Value and Avoid Overwork
This post was originally published on my restaurant blog in 2021 (as I used to run a group of restaurants for 14 years until 2020) and I thought it would be a valuable coaching lesson for anybody in business so am cross-posting it here. One of the greatest challenges – as a restaurateur – is the prospect of overwork. It’s a business where it’s accepted that you work round-the-clock, seven-days-per-week and consider this normal. While this may be a reality for many (and I’ve been there, clocking 80+ hour weeks), it doesn’t HAVE to be a reality. Any business can be designed and built to run well so that it…
3 Powerful Tips To Help Manage Everyday Stress
Often times stress will manifest when we carry over yesterday’s worries into our present-day thoughts. An accumulation of these worries will almost always end up with a high stress level, raised cortisol levels and a perpetual state of distraction and not being able to fully focus. Therefore, we must be able to “dump” all of our concerns from the previous day or days and concentrate wholly on our today. So here are 3 stress-busting tips to help you manage the daily build-up of stress. If you’re suffering a more chronic stress, or feeling overwhelmed or even burnt out, check out my related content on these here: How to build resilience…
Five Steps to Overcoming Overwhelm
Overwhelm. We all face it. But where does it come from and how can we better manage it? I am referring here to the overwhelm of having too many things and not enough time to do them all, not emotional overwhelm which comes from different sources. A lot of the time, overwhelm is our own fault. It’s simply because we overcommit. Either to others or to ourselves. We think we can fit more into a day than we actually can. We want to do it all because were excited. Or we say yes because we don’t want to let the other person down, even though (if we stopped to think…