Overcome Overwhelm in your Online Business

As a new member of the online business alliance, a group of millions looking to make money online I would like to introduce you to a friend that you will meet along your journey, in fact if you never bump into this friend chances are you are not doing enough to build your online business.

This friend is called “overwhelm” and you will most likely meet this friend within a few months of looking at domains, niches, hosting, autoresponders, programmers, websites, blogs, membership sites and the long list of possibilities that is thrown at you when you first start out.

I don’t know how many times I hear the same complaint “I’m feeling overwhelmed….” And my reply is always the same “that’s fantastic!” – why? Because it means you are learning, it means you are growing and it means you will be moving further forward so that when you look back in six months you will see just how far you have come.

Too many people see overwhelm as a bad thing and it really is just a matter of perspective. Too much of anything isn’t good for you so continuous overwhelm over long periods will probably cause you to give up in frustration.  However overwhelm every now and again as you start one phase of your online business and move into another one really is okay.  If you expect to experience no overwhelm at all then you truly are not a business person because every business person will tell you it comes with the territory.

Of course what helps is having a mentoring that you can contact to help you through those feelings of overwhelm and if not a mentor a group of trusted friends or a forum that you can go to and share your frustrations.

Dealing with overwhelm is more difficult if you are alone and trying to do everything so find yourself a small intimate social network or become part of a forum known for helping new internet marketers and ask questions, as many as you need to get the help you need and always remember when you know more to pay it forward by going back to help other new people.

Some of the things you can do to help you work through overwhelm

Have you written down everything you need to get done? Sometimes overwhelm is a result of having too many things to do at once so write them down.

Do you know what you are doing when? Create a schedule. Rather than do one thing, then another, then another, then back to the first, then a bit more of the third….! Stop and plan your week and know what you want to achieve then plan your day to ensure you get everything done.

Are you doing too many things at once? A common mistake when you start your online business is to try and master everything at once so that you can get your business up quickly. Take the time to complete one thing well before moving on rather than doing 10 things at once and not achieving any of them particularly well.

Outsourcing is a popular way to avoid overwhelm. Just get someone who knows what they are doing to do it or use a VA if you have the money. When you are starting out though finding that extra income might be harder and I love knowing how to do things so outsourcing doesn’t always work for me. Why wait 3 days when I can get in done in a few hours!

You have to decide what works for you because I am not you and what works for me might just send you over the edge!

Talk to someone. Always a great remedy because another person might be able to see what’s missing or they might help steer you back on the right road. Sometimes when you are trying to get an image to show up on your blog and you just can’t seem to get it to work, another person will be able to look at it and see exactly where you are going wrong.

Overwhelm comes with the territory and is a natural feeling when you are learning a large number of unknown things at once, instead of complaining about it celebrate your new friends arrival because it means you are moving forward on your journey towards building your online business and your dream.

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Diane Corriette supports women internet marketers through her social network at http://www.womeninternetmarketers.net and provides mentoring support at http://www.internetmarketingmentor.info  

 

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