Scale Your Stress

How do you quantify stress? 

So one of the things that I started doing last year was what I call design dates, and during those dates, you go out and you start writing down what you really want to achieve within that month. I usually go every single month. One of the things that I started quantifying as best that I could was happiness and stress. Now whoever I'm within the design date, if we have a bunch of people, if they've seen me over the last month, they get to choose, on a scale of 1 to 10 on how stressed I've been. So what I've been actually doing with my clients is asking them, "Okay, in the last one, two, three months, how stressed have you been? And how happy?" And the results are astounding. 

Most people don't even imagine or think about how stressed they are. Now the funny thing is, is that as an entrepreneur, nobody really wants to be at a stressed level of zero or one or two. As an entrepreneur, we kind of like being stressed, because otherwise, we'd be bored. Now what I try and aim for my clients, once I started working with clients around these numbers, is a level of five. When you're at seven, eight, or nine, you're actually more unproductive than productive. But around five, they're usually not super bored and not so stressed that they feel like this. 

Now I also really pay attention to the happiness factor because when you really start to break it down, happiness matters. But not only happiness in business, I actually have them break it down to happiness in personal life and happiness in professional life. It helps me really identify where the hangups are, right? If your personal life is having issues, 9 times out of 10, you're having issues in your business, because it is an emotional experience and potential drain to have an issue in your personal life. People going through divorce or going through issues with their family, it really affects business. And that's okay, just so you know. Especially if it's temporary. We have to go through this and it's one of the things that's really huge for you to identify, so you don't have to feel so crappy if you're not achieving all of the goals that you want. You have other things taking your time and attention and energy and resources away. 

So I highly recommend if you have not done this before, go ahead and write down a scale of 1 to 10 how stressed you've been in the last month. And then on a scale of 1 to 10, on average, how happy you've been, both in person and in business. It's eye-opening. Let me know what it is if you're willing to share. Either you message me or go ahead and post it in the comments. Have an amazing day!

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Scale Your Stress

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In the last 2 months, how stressed have you been? On a scale of 1-10. 1 = no stress 10 = high stress. Comment below.

Tags: Business Owner, design dates, Stress

Categories: Business, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Stress

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