You're part of the team too !
So how can you guard against this little predicament ?
The answer is planning.
Before you all throw your arms in the air and start shouting about why its impossible to plan anything in your business…. or is that just my overactive imagination and you’re all smoothly gliding through the glistening waters of retail?
Consider that stress comes when you feel out of control, or in effect the feeling of stress is a direct link to you thinking that you’re going to fail ! You don’t get stressed making a cup of tea, or starting a journey that you’ve completed a gazillion times…. We only get stressed when we think about what we have to do and we think that we might not complete this in time !
Its quite a simple explanation and i fought against this when i heard it, in fact i thrashed about like a fish out of water, but in the end I had to agree that it is in fact true !
So, to avoid stress, and while i get that a bit of stress can be a good thing, forcing us to up our game, none of us want to live in a stressful state all the time - besides which its pretty unhealthy for you (and ladies, its apparently very ageing - so no amount of expensive wrinkle cream made from microdermoplasticpeptioozeides are going to help !
Instead, planning, delegating and getting focused on the priorities are high on the list of groovy things to do !
Plan your work and work your plan is a good motto for wrinkle free skin - and while its nice to wave your staff off happily its not so nice to be the one left tackling the yeuchy jobs, this tends to make us moody and irritable (well, me anyway)
So, plan the work, divide up the responsibilities and get them ticked off the list, so you can focus on the things that are actually going to take your business forward.
Vagueness creates confusion while clarity creates action steps, excitement, and avoids the necessity for expensive surgery !