Overwhelm: The Start-up Killer

The Destroyer Of Start-ups and How To Deal With It

Starting out on new projects, as a solopreneur or a new business whether on or offline is a very exciting time. You have the dream, the vision of the future and an inkling of the positive impact your venture will have on life.

The stats on how well new business ventures will fare are never kept in front of mind.

On average the failure rate of start-up businesses is 90%…the odds are against you right off the starter blocks, but hey, your business is going to be in the 10% winners!

So, the seed idea is formulated and you start to execute on that.

Now, whether from the get-go things go well, good or awesome, the overwhelm factor has the potential to raise its scary head.

Overwhelm for small and start-up businesses can be on varying levels, but that sense and experience of drowning in a sea of “things” coming at you from every angle can be debilitating.

When you try to be the go-to person for everything often with limited or diminishing resources but the dream is still hardcoded in your being…things are hard.

Suddenly the pivot from a conventional job to being the central entity of a business can entail much longer work hours. Your…