7 ways to be the calmest person you know in stressful situations

As a solo business owner, you often face stress alone. Here are seven techniques to help you master stressful situations.

Running your own business or freelance show is peppered with stressful situations; deadlines, running late to meetings, client confrontation and disagreements or even making mistakes in your work. The added challenge is that as soloists we often don’t have anyone to professionally support us in the midst of these cases, so we need to adopt a ‘self as best friend’ approach to retain calm and achieve success.

Here are seven ways to ensure that you don’t sabotage your wellbeing and business during those stressful situations and rocky moments.

1. Sleep

Getting high quality, regular and enough sleep is crucial to maintaining your composure throughout the day. Poor sleep undeniably increases stress and our ability to manage it.

The Sleep Health Foundation in Australia purports that ‘…sleeping for less than five hours per night for several nights in a row can have a significant effect on our mood.’

“If you didn’t keep calm in a stressful situation; that’s probably because you’re a human and not a robot.”