I'm the Boss, I Can't Burn Out!

Is it stress, burnout or disillusionment?

Burnout is the gap between what is expected and what is possible, putting small business owners at particular risk because they set their own "expectations" and they are often sky high.

Get peer support from other entrepreneurs and small business owners who have been building their businesses for 2-4 years. Group members will help each other identify a job well done and offer support to keep things going. Although we want you to get to the top in your business, group members are encouraged to not feel like they are in competition with each other.

If you are suffering, your business suffers.

Smart business owners and entrepreneurs recognize that they are the biggest resource in their business. Your stamina, mental health, physical health, and energy are are critical to the success of your business. If your business' greatest asset, YOU, burns out you're in big trouble.

Do you see yourself in any of these questions? If so, you may be headed for entrepreneur burnout:

• Do you find yourself over-identifying with your business? When your business does great, you feel great? When it's a bad day for business, you feel miserable?

• Do you have high highs and low lows? Do you wait for the burst of productive energy, knowing that you have to take advantage of it before it abates?

• Are you feeling overworked and underpaid? That the payoff for running your own business will never come?

• Do you find yourself keeping news about your business to yourself?

• Do you sometimes hate aspects of your job but can't tell anyone because you have no right to be dissatisfied as your own boss?

• Can you feel isolated and alone when your business is doing anything besides growing?

• Are you addicted to getting new leads, new clients, and new ideas versus dealing with the daily maintenance of the business?

BENEFITS OF A THERAPEUTIC SUPPORT GROUP:

• Investing in yourself --the most important resource in your business.

• Protecting your life satisfaction, by finding a sustainable formula for life and business that works for you.

 • Redefine "success" in concrete, achievable terms with the burnout framework in mind.

• Reduce the stigma of "entrepreneur dissatisfaction." Fix it rather than ignoring or trying to deny it.

• Overachievers and perfectionists have difficulty recognizing limits. The group provides a venue to explore and adjust what is possible and helps redefine your parameters for a job well done.

• Recognize the difference between "I have to" and " I choose to" and whether the motivation behind your business decisions and actions is emotional or rational.