No one said the hardest part about business ownership is carrying the personal loads of your employees. Helping with towing, car seats purchases, buying food, loans, abuse, drugs, suicidal issues, neglect and numerous other issues is very taxing on. And trying to help everyone out proved to be both mentally and physically tiring. You.
I don’t know how many times I saw ownership in various times and jobs in my life seem to not care about what was going on and I didn’t fully understand why. Now I can see why… It may appear like they didn’t care, but in reality, they were trying to balance their life and work balance!.
I was overstretching myself with helping others and helping the store that my family started to decline. Luckily, I managed to catch this in time and start the reversal process. But I can see how you can get so caught up in what you’re doing you didn’t notice what was going on behind the scenes.
Business Lesson Learned: So what I’m learning is you need to set work hours. Even on the days where you work from home, you need to seta cutoff time. There has to be a defined cutoff time from work that you can switch to family or personal time to ensure you have a proper balance. Without this balance, You are quite possibly be so embedded in work that you’re neglecting the things that matter most. To include yourself..