10 Ways Mental Health Affects Your Business

You certainly don’t require a full bill of health to run a business. There are endless examples of that. However, mental health affects your business, and here’s why!

You’re human, you’re an emotional being. Your environment impresses on you and you respond to it and in turn, affect your environment.

It’s a continuous cycle of change and fluctuation. Some people certainly appear to be able to recentre faster than others. However, whatever the impact one cannot escape from this eternal dance.

When the main focus of your business is to make money, it’s easy to lose sight of what is important. In this case that is your mental health. A resilient, robust, and capable mind is essential for your growth, progress, and success. Here’s why!

Mental Health Effects Your Business

1. Dealing With Overwhelm

One thing you’ll have to deal with on a regular basis when running a business is dealing with bottlenecks and pressure in order to get things done. This brings with it a sense of being overwhelmed. This is the moment where you either adapt mentally or breakdown. Your mental health will have a direct effect on your ability to get through this.

2. Being Decisive And Taking Action

As a business owner, you don’t just have to worry about the big decisions you need to make 100’s of micro-decisions every day. Not all of them will be for the best, however, it’s important you make them to keep things moving. If you’re lacking in confidence and focus the speed and accuracy of how you make these decisions will be greatly impacted.

3. Putting Things Into Perspective

Your ability to put things in perspective will be essential to your stress management. This is one of the key ways mental health affects your business. Sometimes we get lost in the details when what we need to do is stand back and see the bigger picture. Having clarity of mind is essential to your ability to focus from the micro to the macro and vice versa.

4. Leading Yourself to Get Results

Often in business, it’s commonplace to get lost staying busy confusing being busy, with being productive. You need to take a moment to see where you’re going and if you’re on course to get there. Being in a poor mental state will make you feel like there is not enough time, so your very unlikely to do this.

5. Representing Your Business

You are your business card. People don’t are more likely to buy your product or service if you can sell yourself first. Being in a poor mental state is not very sellable. A healthy self-image is critical to your success and that starts with good mental health.

6. Clear Communication

Stressed out people often make poor communicators. Poor communicators are ineffective and create mistakes that would otherwise not be created. Bad communication can result in having to do the same job several times, draining your resources and holding your progress back.

7. Being Able to Focus

You ability to focus us undoubtedly effect by your mental health. No amount of caffeine can compensate. Focus is key to getting things done effectively and efficiently. Your business depends on it and as your business grows more and more people will depend on you to be focused.

8. Problem Solving Capabilities

Running your own business is essential you dealing with problems and finding solutions. If you deal with enough problems in the right way, you get the results and that’s good business. If your mental health is affecting your ability to solve problems the business will suffer.

9. Networking

If you’re experiencing poor mental health, it’s unlikely you’ll be a savvy, charming, and effective networker. Networking is often what gets you ahead in business. It enables you to make the right connections, get the insights you would have never otherwise had gotten and opens doors for you that you would have never been able to open.

10. Making Wiser Decisions

There are certain decisions that go beyond focus, intelligence and expertise. Sometimes wisdom takes over and you’ll have to make decisions that you can’t really explain and these decisions are key for the development of your business. A good state of mental health is what will enable you to call upon your wisdom when it’s needed most.

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