Episode #397: 12 Ways To Deal With Burnout Inside Your Pet Business

  Are you feeling the midsummer madness and the pressures of running a pet care business? Is burnout inside your pet business dragging you down just when you should be enjoying the sunny season? Welcome back to another episode of Bella In Your Business! This week, Bella dives into the chaos of summer schedules with 12 powerhouse tips for combating burnout inside your pet business and reclaiming your peace. Whether you’re struggling with chaotic client demands, feeling the pinch of inflation, or lying awake at night worrying about your business, this episode is your strategic rescue. Tune in as Bella shares practical, quick, and dirty tactics to: Reevaluate Your Goals Outsource Smartly Automate Processes Boost Workflow Efficiency Invest in Your Team with Pet Care Team Training Plus, Bella shares personal insights and success stories from business owners like you who have transformed their approach and seen remarkable results in dealing with burnout inside their pet sitting businesses. Listen now! Timestamps: [00:00] Coping with financial stress and burnout. [05:21] Outsource non-core tasks to reduce burnout. [07:37] Are you using scheduling software effectively? [12:07] Monthly pet care team training and support. [16:09] Invest in employees, flexible work, feedback, assess. [18:35] Team building, technology leverage, and preventing burnout. Notable Quotes: "You should not be in the weeds doing things that are below your pay grade. You are the business owner, the entrepreneur, the visionary, and stop doing the little things that are not revenue generating." "Identify tasks like data entry or invoice processing or customer inquiries and use your systems... Use methods and processes and figure out where your bottleneck is and how to remove that dam from the water so the water can flow." "Sometimes it's just a matter of verbally processing it and getting it out of your head and getting that energy through your mouth and just talking about it. I know that's one of the things that helps me tremendously." "There's no sense in listening to podcasts or getting motivated if it does not inspire action. And so that is my action call to you today." Resources: Follow us on social media (a special birthday announcement and unbeatable deals coming soon!) Mastermind Pet Care Team Training Did you love this episode? Make sure you never miss an episode! Head over to Apple Podcasts or Spotify to subscribe to Bella In Your Business. Transcript: Woo. Welcome back to another episode of Bella in your business. Um, it is the summer, and, uh, we have some really cool things planned for you guys. But, um, I know that if you guys are anything like me, and I know that, you know, there's lots of moms and dads out there, and there's lots of single moms and dads out there and non single moms and dads out there. Everyone's just, like, running around amok for the summer, right? And we, you know, a lot of our schedules change. A lot of our clients schedules change. If you're doing pet sitting, it's like, really busy. Because everyone's traveling for the summer. There's a lot of stuff going on, right? And there's a lot of demands on our personal life, things we want to do, like this past weekend, July 4, and we're all in different places of our business. Some are still working holidays and not getting in on just relaxing, or maybe even having a drink at a barbecue because they know that they have to go out and check on some pets, or they're just running around because they're short staffed. Or maybe you're not busy. Maybe you're laying awake at night thinking, shoot, everyone else is busy. Why aren't I? I'm a failure. This isn't working. Whatever it is. There are times in our business where we feel like everything is working really well. And there's times where we feel like the whole world is crumbling down, the walls are closing in on us. You're laying awake at night wondering if one person quits. What am I gonna do? You're looking at your bank account and you're like, wow, I. I really wished that I was automatically paying myself x amount of dollars and not having to do draws based off of how much is in my bank account. I wish that I had money to pay for all this extra stuff, or these extra trips, or do whatever it might be. You might be looking at inflation or going to the grocery store thinking, wow, like, things are getting so expensive and, and, and people aren't wanting to pay my prices, or whatever it might be. Burnout is real. And we've talked a lot about burnout, what you can do personally and psychologically within yourself. But today I want to talk about twelve different things that you can do inside your actual business to help with burnout. And so we're gonna just get straight to it, and it's gonna be quick and dirty. For those like Becky and her team of paws around Motown, you might end up taking this transcript and throwing it into AI and, you know, getting actionable items from it so you don't have to take notes. I loved it when she told me that in one of our mastermind meetings. It was really cool. But I want to give you some food for thought. I want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Okay. So I'm going to get straight into it. Down and dirty. Have no idea how long this episode is going to be, but here we go. So when you're feeling overwhelmed and you're like, I don't know what I should focus on. I think the very first thing that you need to do is reevaluate your goals and objectives. What are you doing? Are you reacting? Um. Or are you being proactive or reactive in your business? She did think that, like, burnout really usually means that you have a disconnect between your goals and your actual outcomes. Right? You feel like you're spinning your wheels. You're not getting anywhere. You burned out. So I want you to consider to host strategic planning sessions with people that matter. Maybe they're your business besties, or maybe they're advisors that you really care about. Maybe it's a coach like myself. Maybe it's your fellow mastermind members. If you're in the mastermind, get with people to try to help. Get out of outside of your head. That's really important. And revisit what your company's mission, values, goals are. Evaluate whether what you're doing with your time actually aligns with those long term objectives you want to use. Smart goals. Smart, smart. Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound to realign your efforts. Communication is also key. And ensure that everyone understands in your organization, whether that's you or maybe they're, you know, you have employees, whatever it might be that, like, hey, this is what we're focused on right now. Maybe that goal is to get more daily dog walks. And so maybe you're. You're working really hard on the next month of flipping the people that are only doing twice a, twice a week walks to three, four, or five times a week walks instead of trying to obtain new people. Right? Have you guys ever done that? That's like, one example. The other thing I want you to think about. The second thing is outsource tasks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I know you know all about this. You've heard about it. Maybe you've done it and you've been burnt by it. Okay? I could tell you I've been burnt more times than I could count. But here's the thing, you never burn me the same way, or I learn things from it and it gets better and better and better. Not everyone that you hire or you delegate to is going to knock it out of the park. They're not always going to be the right person for the job. They're not going to have the right skill set or talent. It is a, it's a trial and error for you. But outsourcing non core tasks can significantly reduce burnout. I want you to think about where are you spending your time? Are you doing the same thing every single week? Why are you, let's say, doing payroll manually? Why? What if you were taken out of that? Who's going to do it? Right? If you're. You need to identify the time consuming, non essential activities that you're doing and then outsize them to specialized people or firms or contractors. Maybe it's your website. I know a lot of you guys are doing your website. I know a lot of you have friends, family members that are doing the websites. And I'll tell you respectfully, those never get done in a timely manner or in a professional manner. Almost never. And you, it could be so much better when you just have like a slack channel with your developer on there or someone that you're like, hey, website issues. This one, this one, fix this. Boom, done. Instead of asking someone that, you know, hey, when you get a minute, could you do this for me? Um, that's just one example, but outsourcing tasks is pretty big. You should not be in the weeds doing things that are below your pay grade. You are the business owner, the entrepreneur, the visionary, and stop doing the little things that are not revenue generating. And that is a mindset that you can't just flip a switch one day and do it. But it's something that will help you get tasks off your daily life, which leads to burnout. The third one is process automation. So you need to automate the repetitive stuff. So we just talked about outsourcing tasks. So what of those outsourcing tasks and you actually automate? And I know automation often has a negative tone, but it doesn't have to be. It will save you time and improve accuracy. And it's not always like losing that personal touch by doing it. Identify tasks like data entry or invoice processing or customer inquiries and use your systems. I know almost all of us have a scheduling software, but my question to you is, are you using it to the fullest of your capability? Do you have things like primary and secondaries that are included in every single client profile.