You have calls to make, letters to write, bills to pay, and marketing to do. You cant seem to concentrate on anything and you are feeling overwhelmed. We all do at one time or another, thats one of the downfalls of running your own business. How do you handle it? Do you become irritated, do you throw things, or do you cry? Well you dont really need to do any of those things.

Many times I have seen people get upset. I have even gotten upset myself. It seems like you have so much to do and not enough time to do it. Well, its time to take a deep breath.

When you are feeling overwhelmed, its time to take a break and put your priorities in order. Close the door to your office and tell everyone not to disturb you, then get to work. Write down a list of things you need to do. After you do that, decide which one is the most important.

Here is an example list:

Customer Callbacks
Marketing
Bookkeeping
Administrative Work

Lets put it into perspective:

Customer Callbacks-Do that first because you dont want to lose potential customers

Bookkeeping- Do that next because if its the end of the month you want to get your invoices and bills out as soon as possible.

Administrative work-You have letters to write to potential and current customers so do your administrative work next. By writing the letter and calling customers you just did some Marketing.

Guess what, you are all done now go home and get some rest.

If you regroup once a day, you will stay organized, be less overwhelmed and feel like you actually accomplished something.

If you still feel overwhelmed, you could take a look at what you have to do and outsource some of your work to a virtual assistant. The letters, the data entry, and the administrative tasks take up a lot of your valuable time. So outsourcing to a virtual assistant could free up time for you to spend with family, your customers, or yourself. Asking for help would also help you and your business become more productive.