Being an entrepreneur can be very stressful for the most part. Worrying about how you are going to pay the bills, keep the lights on, keep the clients happy, the list goes on and on. Few people take care of what this stress is doing to themselves. Increased levels of stress for long durations of time can have extreme adverse effects on your body. In this article, I wanted to share some of the ways that I deal with stress.

Learn to reboot

I know this one sounds strange but hear me out. Every day you probably have occurrences that upset you, make you mad, stress you out, etc. I bet you wake up the next day, and those negative feelings about what happened previously are still there or they crop up throughout the day. You must learn to let those feelings go. Preferably, you would want to do this after the event, but if you can’t then you want to do it before you go to bed. Just let it go. Think of it in terms of a computer. If you keep a computer running for a long period of time, it collects crap in its memory and doesn’t run very well. But if you reboot the computer every day, it gets rid of the crap in its memory and runs like a charm. That’s what you have to do, reboot.

Let things slide off of you

Again this sounds strange, but I will explain. If you’ve ever seen a duck in the rain, you might have noticed that its feathers are not getting wet. This is because there is a coat of oil over the duck’s feathers that prevent them from getting wet and thus preventing them from flying. This is what you have to do. You have to create a coating around yourself (psychologically of course) that prevents harmful, mean, nasty comments from getting inside you where your emotions takeover (and thus increase your stress). This way, you can deal with these sorts of things with your logical and reasonable parts of your head and not your heart.

What’s the worst that can happen?

You have to ask yourself in every stressful situation “what’s the worst that can happen?” If you lose a client, what’s the worst that will happen? You will lose money; and they might talk badly about your business to their friends or contacts. However, you can always make more money by acquiring new clients or customers. There are probably millions of people in your country and there are billions of people on the planet. Ask some of them if they are in need of your services.

These changes probably won’t eliminate your stress overnight. You will need to practice them every day. But if you do, I will guarantee that you will be feeling a lot less stress.