We all juggle that precious balance with work, family and our health.

Ignoring any one of these areas for too long will affect the quality of our lives and those who are important to us.

But, as entrepreneurs or small business owners, sometimes our schedules get crazier than ever! We have a lot on our plates and even more tasks pile up during the course of our work week.

The trick in keeping work and life balanced is to try to keep things running smoothly by tackling each situation with care.

Be sure to keep in mind how important it is to enjoy what is good about your day and do your best to master all the facets of it and still come away with a day complete with fulfillment.

• When things pile up remember this is only temporary.
• Try to remain flexible as tasks start to bury you.
• Remember you are only human and despite your determination there is only so much that can be done in 24 hours.
• Sometimes, if you allow it, the fast pace of life can be enjoyable if you attempt to feel the fun.

• Organization design
  When the external environment is unstable, an entrepreneur will need to design an organic business structure to stay competitive. This is needed to meet the sudden changes that could arise in its environment. Organic structures usually operate using cross functional teams which may dissolve and reform to meet the challenges posed by the external environment. On the other hand, entrepreneurs in stable environments, will benefit more from highly standardized processes.
• Moreover, markets that require highly specialized knowledge can gain a more competitive edge by being decentralized. This is because it is impossible for one person to possess the amount of knowledge required by the market place. For example, doctors operate in decentralized environments.
• Size of business
  There are instances when the market demands a large size. For example a business that designs airplanes will need to be large to absorb the total costs to design the planes. On the other hand, there are businesses that do not do so well if they appear to be too large. For example, with professional services, consumers like the feeling of smallness because it indicates that the business is able to give them the personal attention they desire

It would also be a fair guess that almost all of the managers of these small businesses must engage in multi tasking every day. In this author’s view there are only two types of multi-tasking: enjoyable or horrible. One will most likely either love it or hate it. Multi tasking is stressful either way, but it is very stressful for those who hate it.

Those who hate it are most likely to be persons who have difficulty concentrating and staying focused.

A simple test is this: do you enjoy and handle reasonably well such activities as watching TV and reading something light at the same time? Do you handle conversations fairly well while doing some other task at the same time? Can you follow two lines of thought at the same time without getting a headache? If so, there is no reason you cannot handle multi tasking and learn to enjoy it with a minimum of stress. That is the goal: achieving a minimum of stress and a maximum amount of satisfaction from multi tasking.

If your answer to the questions was no, then multi tasking needs to be approached slowly and carefully, knowing that it will

Most businesses are managing to

• Remove the pain,
• “Live within the budget” (and the budget was determined either by “the economy”, “the market”, or “who walks through the door.”
• Pay this month’s bills

This is the “scarcity” side of management. We assume that there isn’t enough to go around, so we are constantly trying to make do.

For the most part most of us have always believed that the harder we work the better things will be. However, let’s look at what happens when we accomplish those three things we were managing above.

• Remove the pain – would result in “painless.” Certainly desirable, we would be OK if we removed the pain, right?
• Live within the budget – Let’s see in this case the budget was determined by someone else, or something else, the economy, the market, or who walked through the door. We aren’t exactly in control here are we? What would happen, however, if we hit “this budget”? We’d be, sort of OK, but not sure.
• Pay this month’s bill-that certainly would be OK, but it doesn’t generate anything more than the budget. We’re still, just OK.

Are you getting the point here? When we manage this

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