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How to Deal with Frustration in Your Business

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September 19, 2017 By T. Harv Eker 12 Comments

Learning how to deal with frustration in business is necessary to lead a productive company. Find ways to address your frustration by systemizing processes and working toward solutions.

Dealing with Business Frustrations in a Productive Way

When we get frustrated by our conditions, we inevitably end up becoming frustrated with ourselves. It can take us over and we tend to run with it. It can creep into every aspect of our lives, from how we relate to the people around us, to how it will impact our business.

If the frustration builds for too long, pretty soon we might forget altogether what the hell we were frustrated at in the first place, yes?

This happens in business all the time, especially when, in the early stages of the business, cash flow can fluctuate maddeningly, which then leads to all other kinds of frustrations from payroll to profits.

There’s an energy attached to frustration that sucks the life out of your business, and if you’re not learning how to deal with frustration as a business owner, it’s only going to go downhill from there.

Work on Finding a Solution to the Problem

Moving back away from the problem is step one for finding a solution. That way you can start to classify why you are frustrated. Is it with your team? Your results? A process that doesn’t seem to flow efficiently?

Some typical early-stage business frustrations include time (there never seems to be enough of it), feeling like you’re too bogged down with menial detail-work instead of bigger-picture tasks, or relying on people to get things done that don’t follow through. Those are just to name a few.

This is where the importance of systemizing your business processes plays a huge role. First you name your frustration, and then you develop the system to address it.

Work on Finding a Solution to the Problem | How to Deal with Frustration in Your Business

Systemize Your Business to Handle Unnecessary Frustrations

So, if you’re having problems with freeing up your time, yet ensuring that essential tasks still get done, then the real problem is the absence of a system. You need to hire the right people to help you rather than doing it all yourself. That way, not only is your time freed up, but the right people will also help micro-manage the way processes continue to develop and flow.

The good news is that frustrations within your business are fairly easy to identify and deal with, though they may take time. Inner frustrations, on the other hand, not only take more time and energy to deal with, but may also be harder to identify in the first place. You could be mad at yourself because you’ve done something poorly for so long, and you get frustrated about not seeming able to turn the corner. Or worse, you externalize that frustration toward everybody else—the customers, the suppliers, the vendors, the client; everybody but yourself.

We know the power of blueprints, so we won’t address that here.

When it comes to outer frustrations that we can identify, though, the questions are much simpler. What’s my frustration? What’s the gap in the system? What system is missing altogether?

If your frustrations begin with ‘I’, it’s about you. It’s inner directed. If it’s about ‘them’ or ‘those people’ or ‘those lousy clients’ or ‘those suppliers’ or ‘that lousy machinery’ or ‘that way’ of doing something, you can learn how to deal with frustration by addressing it systematically and objectively.

What do you think? Have you experienced similar or even different kinds of frustrations, and how did you learn how to deal with frustration in business? Did systemizing play a role?

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  1. Louise Rabin says

    September 19, 2017 at 8:10 am

    A very insightful and thought-provoking article. Thank you.

    Reply
  2. Hayet says

    September 19, 2017 at 10:19 am

    I needed it so much..thid words cames in the right time..thank you sooo much..

    Reply
  3. Katie J. Long says

    September 19, 2017 at 3:24 pm

    My Frustration comes when I am faced with obstacles that keep me from Marketing, circumstances and situations that arise, where I am not free to focus on my business. I am most frustrated with my place of living, which keeps me from the freedom of having the business I want from my home.

    Reply
  4. Rico Pepe says

    September 20, 2017 at 8:58 am

    I never knew how to start all over again.im full of debt.emptiness

    Reply
  5. Daniel says

    September 20, 2017 at 8:58 am

    Hey Harv, any chances you will have a System course coming up? Would be great to hear what you’ve learned over the years and how you’ve done it. Thanks!

    Reply
  6. Pam Perry says

    September 20, 2017 at 9:08 am

    Systems are everything!

    Reply
  7. Naomi says

    September 20, 2017 at 10:44 am

    I believe I read an article on this before from Harv. I worked with my coache and we put a few systems in place. I do still feel like there’s not enough time in the day but it’s not because I feel frustrated it’s because I love my work so much I could spend every waking moment in it. However, life is about balance. I have a young child that requires a lot of me so my energy is split between family and my business.

    Reply
    • Naomi says

      September 20, 2017 at 10:47 am

      I got a lot out of reading this article. Though I know these things and are doing a lot of them it’s always good to hear it again and again.

      Reply
    • Marv says

      September 2, 2018 at 6:40 pm

      Naomi can I ask you something ??.

      Are you financial free or rich ???

      Reply
  8. James chitemo says

    September 20, 2017 at 12:28 pm

    I’m experiencing frustration right now, thank you eker for this article, I think my shortage of capital shall be solved soon,

    Reply
  9. Katie J. Long says

    September 24, 2017 at 5:49 pm

    I have found the issue that I will be frustrated with already and I have not even hired anyone yet. I am a macro-manager and In the past I thought I had to do everything myself. Well, I have learned that it is better to have less money and hire someone to do that which I dislike or am not good at. Being frustrated means there is a problem and problems are made to be solved. Two heads are better than one, and brain storming means I need more than one brain thinking of solutions.

    Reply
  10. Isolde Kühn says

    September 26, 2017 at 6:35 am

    Hallo….:-)

    vielen herzlichen Dank.
    Ich überlege jetzt,wie kann ich es besser machen.

    Meine Frustration.:-)…kam,wenn ich ungerecht behandelt wurde

    wenn man mir mein Geld für die erbrachte Arbeit und für den Monat nicht zahlte

    Reply

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