Building a Team Without Getting Overwhelmed

It's hard enough to figure out what needs to happen first. Not to mention 4th or 20th. As a business person I'm sure you find yourself looking far down the road thinking, wondering or worrying about what is to come.

It's hard to ignore the fears, uncertainties and doubts that come along with all the responsibilities you face on a daily basis.

Not only do you have your business to manage and a team to build, you also have a life to manage. Maybe you have kids, a husband, a dog, a house, a REAL LIFE to tend!

What's Important Right Now?

Since this website is dedicated to team building I'm going to focus on how to stay balance while building a team. However the advice is applicable to many different aspects of your life.

Building a team takes patience, commitment and dedication. Too often these three words add up to one specific thing: time. Time is the one thing all of us want more of. This is why we don't sleep at night, we don't exercise, we don't take vacations, we don't spend time with our families.

It's also why many of us end up unhappy, burned out, and bitter with what our lives have become.

Are You Pulled In Many Directions?

• your team members ask for "a minute" of your time.
• your personal relationships are problematic
• you have difficulty staying focused on specific tasks

The reason business people have such a difficult time building teams that work efficiently, is their goals and motives are not in alignment.

Building a team is all about sharing goals and facilitating "the team" to meet them. If you've lost sight of your personal goals, there's a very good chance your team has too.

Are You Committed?

That is one of the most powerful aspects of having a team is that you can delegate tasks and ask questions of experts who might have a fresh perspective on a problem that you can't seem to solve. You must give up this false sense of "control" in your business and share the problems, solutions and desired outcome with your team.

Giving up control does not come naturally to most business owners. . . many of us, perfectionists that we are, hang onto a false sense of control with a death-grip. . .

. . . but this is why our lives become unbalanced in the first place.

Letting Go of "Control" to Regain It

You grant yourself more of what I call "soft space" and power to achieve your goals.

Giving up the need to control often feels like death to many of us. We literally feel like our lives are going to end.

Your resistance is an obstacle to your success, personally and building a team. It prevents you both from living the lifestyle, or having the business you want. It ruins relationships and destroys families.

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