Relieving Stress Can Help Your Business
The New York Times reports on methods employed by business owners to manage the stress of a down economy. Taking even 30 minutes a day to unwind can be good for business and for your health.
For Diane Slovak, a builder in Connecticut, trapshooting is a way to relieve the relentless stress of running her 21-year-old business in a tough economy. For Bruce Woolf, owner of Quaker Road Associates, a home construction and renovation company in Chappaqua, N.Y., it is a monthly poker game. Doug Holzworth, a self-employed technical writer in Raleigh, N.C., fences on his driveway.
Diane Slovak, a builder in Connecticut, likes to go trapshooting to relieve work-related tension. “I feel refreshed,” she said.
For many small business owners and employees, certainly builders and others in the construction trades, these are difficult times. With restricted access to credit, consumers and businesses are canceling or postponing major projects and purchases. That means the owners have to work extra hard to keep their businesses going. And the longer the downturn lasts, the bigger the toll it takes on their well-being.
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