93: How to Handle ENTREPRENEURIAL STRESS

The Chris Harder Show

Chris Harder

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This is a huge topic that plagues everybody – or at least it seems to anyway. Whether we're stressed about our business not having any traction or we're stressed about all the work that comes with a business with traction, stress doesn't discriminate. That's just real life, right? Not so fast…

While I'm not denying the existence of all stress, I do question how much of the stress we have is really B.S. I venture to say that roughly 90 percent of the stress we have is literally made up in our heads. What if we reframe this idea?

"You're not stressed, you're blessed."

Would you rather have the alternative to your stress? Typically, that answer would be no. Think about it, a broke and struggling person would love the stress that your success brings upon them.

When entrepreneurs are stressed it's because we chose that stress. We had a series of choices that we said yes or no to. We have the control and power to either change it or appreciate it. I choose the latter.

"We're not actually busy, we're busy in our head."

How often do you get stressed thinking about all of your future appointments or project deadlines? I know it's tough, but STOP living in the future! Get present. The things you worry about in your head will likely never happen. Seriously, 95% of the stuff we stress about NEVER happens.

One more tip, make sure you're not mislabeling your stress or nervousness as excitement. They're very similar feelings, so when you catch yourself doing that, quickly reframe it. The sooner you learn to stop creating fake stress, the better you can manage your business and life.

Make sure you're leaning into the stress, don't fear it. I firmly believe that "a little stress is a prerequisite for success." Just remember to keep stepping through the stress, not back.

In This Episode We Talk about:

Reframing the "stress" in your life
Differentiating between stress and excitement
How being present can help you avoid feelings of stress

Resources:

For more stories and tips on becoming unapologetically wealthy, follow me @Chriswharder on Instagram and check out fortheloveofmoney.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you
0:08.6	unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it.
0:16.5	My name is Chris Harder, and each week I will bring you incredible guests
0:21.2	in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great things.
0:26.0	Welcome back everybody to another mini episode of for the love of money episodes that I like to call my two cents.
0:39.0	Now today we're going to talk about how to handle entrepreneurial stress. Like this is real, this is huge, it
0:45.1	plagues everyone. I'd like to say that we all have a little bit of stress but
0:48.3	quite honestly we all have a lot a bit of stress or at least it seems so. You see at first you're stressed about
0:55.2	not getting any traction in your business or you're stressed about when your business is going to
0:59.5	take off and then once it does take off and get traction well then you're stressed because there's so much to do right you feel like oh my
1:08.3	God I'm never gonna get it all done how am I ever gonna handle all this
1:11.2	this is real life to a certain extent. But I also have to be honest and call both you and I
1:18.9	out because 90% of what we run around claiming is stress is actually really a bunch of BS.
1:25.2	It's fake, it's made up.
1:27.0	I mean, yes, we all have stress, but for some reason, most humans seem to sensationalize it, both to others and to ourselves.
1:38.3	We make it out to seem like it's such a big deal to everybody, therefore compounding the stress into bigger stress each time we tell the story of how stressed we are.
1:47.0	It's like we're doing it for attention.
1:49.0	So let me start by saying, when all of your dreams do start coming true, when all of your hard
1:55.7	work does start paying off, you're not stressed, you're blessed. You're not stressed,
2:02.1	you're blessed. I mean let's keep a positive outlook on how we're framing all of this
2:06.5	action that we are currently in in the moment. Next I want you to ask, every time the stress starts to rear up a little bit.
2:16.0	I want you to ask yourself, would you really want anything else other than the situation that you're in right now? Would you really want less stress or different stress?
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