Entrepreneurs have taken a huge burden upon themselves, and the risk of personal burnout is very real – and potentially devastating, both individually and for their businesses.
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Burnout among entrepreneurs and owners of medium-sized businesses is a huge problem in Australia, and many proprietors are unaware or unable to acknowledge they are at risk, industry observers say.
If business owners fail to act on symptoms stemming from work-based anxieties and demands that are running them down, they are more likely to slip into clinical depression, say business coaches such as Samantha McDonald and industry psychologist Eve Ash.
‘I see so many people with this, and often they don’t understand they are not getting enough balance; they just think how they’re feeling is normal,’ says McDonald, MD of Dare Coaching & Seminars.
‘It’s a huge problem; and people need to understand you can’t sustain the whole working-too-hard thing. You can get sick.’
Symptoms of work-based burnout include listlessness, lack of energy, lack of interest in the business and home life, arguments at home, ’stopping enjoying anything they normally do enjoy doing, such as exercising’, says McDonald.
‘They’re very tired – you can be quite close to depression. Burning out you can end up quite depressed, some are just tearful all the time,’ she says. Other signs include feeling overwhelmed or overloaded by the business, problems spilling into home life, and just that ‘their business no longer seems fun’. Read full article.
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