{"id":1868,"date":"2010-11-04T09:17:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T13:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/cincinnati\/being-overwhelmed-stops-most-business-owners-dead-in-their-tracks"},"modified":"2022-07-11T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:33:08","slug":"being-overwhelmed-stops-most-business-owners-dead-in-their-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/cincinnati\/being-overwhelmed-stops-most-business-owners-dead-in-their-tracks","title":{"rendered":"Being OVERWHELMED Stops Most Business Owners Dead in Their\u00a0Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Growth Coach Blog focuses on the all-too-common feeling that stops most business owners and entrepreneurs dead in their tracks.\u00a0 The emotion that prevents most professionals from seizing greater success and personal fulfillment.\u00a0 The mental state that derails most small business owners from making necessary changes.\u00a0 What’s the prevalent feeling, emotion and mental state that often sabotages a better business and life?\u00a0 It’s called being OVERWHELMED.<\/strong> Being overwhelmed shuts down your will and appetite to make critical changes and it\u2019s like engaging an emergency brake on your goals, dreams, and greater results.<\/p>\n

The Problem<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As a business coach<\/a> for over 18 years, I have seen the best of business owners mentally and physically check out and shut down when confronted and surrounded by the sensation of being overwhelmed.<\/strong> In fact, that’s the time when small business owners especially need a business coach to help them cut through the feelings of dread, fear, complexity, confusion, and endless details.<\/p>\n

As the founder of The Growth Coach<\/a>, a business coaching franchise<\/a> system, I too have suffered from bouts of feeling overwhelmed<\/strong>, especially as we’ve expanded throughout North America.\u00a0 Being overwhelmed is when the mind-numbing details of any contemplated and significant change immediately crush your appetite and motivation for that change.\u00a0 It’s when the thought of making a significant change feels and appears MUCH too big, too complicated, and too involved to move forward.\u00a0 You never really get going.\u00a0 Haven’t you felt overwhelmed at times?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each Growth Coach in over 140 markets sees this phenomenon all the time with their new business coaching clients<\/a>.\u00a0 These entrepreneurs are often stuck in a rut by their feelings of being overwhelmed.\u00a0 When most small business owners seriously consider a major change and improvement in their business and\/or life, they immediately dwell upon the countless details and action steps that will be required.\u00a0 Instead of focusing on the “pleasing outcomes” of the change, they focus on the “challenging process” of the change.\u00a0 Instead of focusing on the “why do it” (motivation), they jump ahead too far and too soon to the “how to do it” (methods).<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a result, even before establishing the right reasons and motivation for the change, they are buried by the methods and minutia of the change.\u00a0 They suddenly feel overwhelmed and freeze up<\/strong>.\u00a0 That crushing, suffocating weight of being overwhelmed prevents them from moving forward to a better business and life.\u00a0 Their brains overload and shut down.\u00a0 So does their appetite and will to change.\u00a0 Again, this is a critical juncture when they need a Growth Coach more than ever to get them unstuck, back on the track and moving forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s a typical business coaching example.\u00a0 When a small business owner is asked a simple coaching question like, “What’s currently broken in your business and needs to be fixed?\u201d<\/strong>, he\/she usually rattles off several areas they would love to address now and improve.\u00a0 However, without even taking a first step, their mind plays a horrible trick on them.\u00a0 It instantaneously creates a scary horror movie of sensory overload with thousands of evil and frightening action steps to be tackled … they are in the overwhelmed zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As such, the entrepreneur sees improving the business as a huge, complicated, exhausting, frightening and overwhelming undertaking.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 They don’t focus enough on the “why do it” but instead jump into the “how to do it.”<\/strong> They end up dwelling on way too many details way too soon.\u00a0 They mistakenly believe that they need to know all the steps and all the answers BEFORE beginning.\u00a0 WRONG.\u00a0 Sadly, they get overwhelmed and paralyzed.<\/strong> Instead of working on improving the broken parts of the business, they play a game of denial and go back to their tension-relieving, status-quo routines … unless they have a Growth Coach to challenge them to march forward.<\/p>\n

The Solution<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Through my many years of business coaching<\/a>, I have learned that highly successful and wealthy entrepreneurs see and think about things differently<\/strong>.\u00a0 When confronted with a major project, change or opportunity, they don’t allow their mind to play a horror movie.\u00a0 They chose to see the significant project or change as a big and fun adventure film.\u00a0 They focus on the big picture, its pleasing outcomes and benefits, and then start breaking the big goal down into very workable steps.\u00a0 They don\u2019t allow themselves to get overwhelmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Initially, they focus much more on the WHY do it, less on the HOW to do it<\/strong>.\u00a0 That\u2019s critical. They focus on the desired outcomes first, then and only then on the process.\u00a0 They establish the reasons why, the appetite and motivation, and the clarity of outcomes before doing anything else.\u00a0 Then they break the big project down into workable FIRST steps, start taking action, build momentum, and begin to achieve real progress<\/strong>.\u00a0 They do not get overwhelmed … instead, they get moving!<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do you eat an elephant?\u00a0 One bite at a time.\u00a0 How do you achieve dramatic success?\u00a0 One step at a time. <\/strong> Don\u2019t get overwhelmed by the size of the beast or opportunity, just focus on the desired OUTCOMES you want and start taking small steps … soon momentum will take over.\u00a0 Even your actions will reveal key insights, distinctions and the ultimate \u201chow to\u201d formula.\u00a0 Your actions will even reveal what NOT to do.\u00a0 Your actions will be your greatest teacher and show you the next series of steps.\u00a0 Don’t believe that you need to know ALL the steps and ALL the answers before you begin.\u00a0 JUST BEGIN.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When contemplating a major change and improvement in your business or life, don\u2019t settle for getting overwhelmed, get going!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to request a FREE consultation with a Growth Coach.<\/a>
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