Why You Shouldn't Be a Perfect Business Owner
You are that kind of person who is sure: if you want to do something good, do it by yourself. Moreover, your life credo can be put into the phrase: "Everything should be perfect." Did you recognize yourself? Then you will need the information that we want to share with you today.
Have you ever wondered about what would happen if you gave up your desire to be an ideal business owner? Do you think there would be a catastrophe, something terrible, irreversible and destructive? Not at all. In most cases nothing special would happen. And often - changing your attitude from perfectionism to a more adequate perception of your work leads to significant improvements in the results that your company shows. How and why is this possible? Let's discuss.
Discalimer. The word "you" here is general and imaginative, just to think about.
Problem 1. You get too tired
Why do you think this is happening? Return to the first sentence of this article and read it again. Right. You do most of the work yourself, without asking for help of other people, even if you have qualified employees who would have perfectly coped with these tasks. But you are convinced that if you do not control everything to the smallest detail, it will never be good enough. Yes, it will not - but only for you! Neither your business partners nor your customers will notice the difference. However, your body feels this difference perfectly. You do not even notice how emotional burnout and nervous exhaustion creeps up to you. It is important to know that the effectiveness of your work in this condition is falling and sooner or later it will be reduced to zero. Think about it.
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Problem 2. You do not have priorities
Setting priorities is an impossible task for you. But the ability to correctly determine what needs to be done earlier, and what later, what now, and what then, allows you to make your work more efficient. Due to the fact that you consider everything absolutely necessary, urgent, important - and you are sure that all this should be done perfectly, it is simply impossible to set priorities. Therefore, you do everything, in huge volumes, to detail and very little detail, which as a result does not affect your earnings fundamentally, but it significantly influences you, your team and relations with it, on the effectiveness of your business.
Problem 3. People do not want to work with you
You carp at trivialities, exhaust your subordinates and business partners with every smallest detail, constantly criticize for an insufficiently ideal approach to work, sharply negatively behave in assessing their activities (choose the right one buy yourself - even one of them is enough not to like you). You do not delegate authority and do not give other people the power and freedom to make decisions - after all, you are used to doing everything yourself. It seems to you that this is the only way to come to business success and you are genuinely surprised why your subordinates don't like you, and business partners try to make deals with someone else or quickly leave you. Therefore, you probably think that it's all about "such kind of people". But in fact, most often it's in your perfectionism, which takes a painful form.
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Problem 4. It's hard for you to make decisions
If you are the head or business owner, decision-making is the most important part of your daily work. What could be the problem here? The fact is that if you are used to think that any decision should be ideal, thoroughly thought out and impeccable. What happens in this situation? You are afraid to make a decision – what if it will not be what you really need. What if you make a mistake that will be fatal for your business? What if, what if, what if... As a result, you can be panic-stricken to take the slightest risk - and business development stops, because for its active growth, different solutions are needed, sometimes risky, sometimes difficult.
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Problem 5. You are not coping well with stress
You may be so exhausted by your own expectations and trying to make your team to fit them, that stress literally covers you up. Perfectionists, as a rule, are very poorly reconciled with failures - for them every mistake or problem becomes a real catastrophe. You can be so exhausted that after every mistake you go to extremes - start thinking about how to quit all this business, fire people, forget your business partners, hide somewhere, and so that no one touches you. You should work with this stress to cope with it.
As you have already understood, the desire to be perfect does not bring any benefit - but it can harm, and not only your business, but also you personality. If you feel that all this is too much for you, ask for help of a specialist, get rid your excellent worker's complex. Be sure, this will have a good effect on your well-being, quality of life, and will also improve your business.
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Why You Shouldn't Be a Perfect Business Owner
Have you ever wondered about what would happen if you gave up your desire to be an ideal business owner? Do you think there would be a catastrophe, something terrible, irreversible and destructive? Not at all. In most cases nothing special would happen. And often - changing your attitude from perfectionism to a more adequate perception of your work leads to significant improvements in the results that your company shows. How and why is this possible? Let's discuss.
Discalimer. The word "you" here is general and imaginative, just to think about.
Problem 1. You get too tired
Why do you think this is happening? Return to the first sentence of this article and read it again. Right. You do most of the work yourself, without asking for help of other people, even if you have qualified employees who would have perfectly coped with these tasks. But you are convinced that if you do not control everything to the smallest detail, it will never be good enough. Yes, it will not - but only for you! Neither your business partners nor your customers will notice the difference. However, your body feels this difference perfectly. You do not even notice how emotional burnout and nervous exhaustion creeps up to you. It is important to know that the effectiveness of your work in this condition is falling and sooner or later it will be reduced to zero. Think about it.
How to Get Your Energy Back for Better Work
Problem 2. You do not have priorities
Setting priorities is an impossible task for you. But the ability to correctly determine what needs to be done earlier, and what later, what now, and what then, allows you to make your work more efficient. Due to the fact that you consider everything absolutely necessary, urgent, important - and you are sure that all this should be done perfectly, it is simply impossible to set priorities. Therefore, you do everything, in huge volumes, to detail and very little detail, which as a result does not affect your earnings fundamentally, but it significantly influences you, your team and relations with it, on the effectiveness of your business.
Problem 3. People do not want to work with you
You carp at trivialities, exhaust your subordinates and business partners with every smallest detail, constantly criticize for an insufficiently ideal approach to work, sharply negatively behave in assessing their activities (choose the right one buy yourself - even one of them is enough not to like you). You do not delegate authority and do not give other people the power and freedom to make decisions - after all, you are used to doing everything yourself. It seems to you that this is the only way to come to business success and you are genuinely surprised why your subordinates don't like you, and business partners try to make deals with someone else or quickly leave you. Therefore, you probably think that it's all about "such kind of people". But in fact, most often it's in your perfectionism, which takes a painful form.
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Problem 4. It's hard for you to make decisions
If you are the head or business owner, decision-making is the most important part of your daily work. What could be the problem here? The fact is that if you are used to think that any decision should be ideal, thoroughly thought out and impeccable. What happens in this situation? You are afraid to make a decision – what if it will not be what you really need. What if you make a mistake that will be fatal for your business? What if, what if, what if... As a result, you can be panic-stricken to take the slightest risk - and business development stops, because for its active growth, different solutions are needed, sometimes risky, sometimes difficult.
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Problem 5. You are not coping well with stress
You may be so exhausted by your own expectations and trying to make your team to fit them, that stress literally covers you up. Perfectionists, as a rule, are very poorly reconciled with failures - for them every mistake or problem becomes a real catastrophe. You can be so exhausted that after every mistake you go to extremes - start thinking about how to quit all this business, fire people, forget your business partners, hide somewhere, and so that no one touches you. You should work with this stress to cope with it.
As you have already understood, the desire to be perfect does not bring any benefit - but it can harm, and not only your business, but also you personality. If you feel that all this is too much for you, ask for help of a specialist, get rid your excellent worker's complex. Be sure, this will have a good effect on your well-being, quality of life, and will also improve your business.
