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Entrepreneurs Really Can Get Burned Out

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According to Knoxweb, about 5 percent of businesses and organizations will fail in one to four years, and although most business owners and entrepreneurs do nearly everything they can to stay afloat, most will end up being burnt out. Why? Because most entrepreneurs will focus on technology instead of running their new business.

The Startup

Knoxweb explains that most entrepreneurs begin their career life as an employee, and although you may be great at what you do for a living, you will eventually get tired of giving all of the money to the owner of the business. Once you get to that point, you will think about starting your own business doing what you do now. However, this time you do not have to share your profits or your work with the owner of the business. You are the technician and caretaker of your own business.

After about 12 months, you are happy that your clients and customers are happy and that you are making a good living, but there is a problem, especially if your company is growing and you need to hire more employees to keep up with the workload.

As the work grows, so does your team, but when new people are hired, the work could become sloppy. If that happens, you, the entrepreneur, will spend the majority of your workday correcting mistakes. Although your staff may resent you for it, you are the person in charge. Unfortunately, if this pattern continues, you will begin to despise what you do and begin to criticize others.

Somewhere along the line your number one team member, the key player, decides that he or she has had enough or has been offered a better position. When your number one employee leaves, you will end up running your business and being burned out in the process. Trying to please everyone never works. You keep dropping the ball and feeling that something has to change or your company will close its doors.

Three Options

In life there are usually three options, change what you don’t like, accept it, or leave it. What isn’t a great option is sitting around wishing or hoping that you can change it, but not doing anything about it, wishing you could leave it, but not doing so and lastly, not accepting the situation. That’s the real struggle.

Accept It-Try to do the very best you can with the situation while feeling miserable every time you get up in the morning.

Leave It-Close the doors and go back to working as a freelancer or an employee.

Change It-Rethink your role and your business plan. Come up with something smarter and better.

Accepting the situation and leaving it are straightforward options that don’t take much planning, but if you want to change things, it will require effort. If you want to change your company, you have to change how you think and feel about your business and where you will fit in.

If you are one of those entrepreneurs who is feeling burned out, talk to the team from Knoxweb about helping you with your business or organization. Call or click today.