Most certainly when you run your own business, you must treat working on that business like it’s completely apart from the rest of your life.
Bad things happen, distractions take away focus, people get angry and your mind may feel like it’s turned upside down but the show must go on. Show up, prioritize the work, and make it happen.
I find it helpful to treat work like it has nothing to do with regular family or personal life. When you intermingle them, you link them in a way that they rely on each other and your mood and feeling in personal life will bleed into and usually be a destructive force to the business at hand.
No matter how distracting the outside world is, shut it out of business and we’ll all be more effective in what we want to get done.