Embracing Self Care: Why Business Owners Need to Prioritise Their Wellbeing
Prioritising self care without guilt and recognising that it’s okay to pause, recalibrate, and focus on what matters.
Prioritising self care without guilt and recognising that it’s okay to pause, recalibrate, and focus on what matters.
As we approach the end of 2024, it’s time to start thinking about how to position your business for success in the coming year. One crucial aspect of this preparation is to conduct a thorough review of your current business operations.
In this video, I’m sharing my tried-and-true tips for work-life balance managing it all, straight from my experience running multiple businesses at Enever Group.
Many of you will know the feeling of being overwhelmed by emails and your inbox, so as I was cleaning up my in box today I thought I would share some email tips with you.
Today I am unsubscribing, deleting, creating rules and more to deal with my inbox it allows me to think clearer and deal with the pressure that emails can create on my day.
Dealing with a difficult customer is an inevitable part of running a business. Handling these situations with grace and professionalism is crucial, whether it’s a mismatch of expectations, dissatisfaction with a product or service, or simply a clash of personalities.
The reality for business owners is that self-care isn’t a luxury reserved for going on vacation. We need to be practising self-care daily as it’s the foundation on which a sustainable fulfilling business is built.
Let’s explore strategies for managing the overwhelm and finding balance in the beautiful chaos we call entrepreneurship. It’s time to shift the focus from being busy to having more productivity and kick chaos to the curb.
Friends say it all the time: “You’re so lucky to work from home and be a master of your own time”. Come again? It is a blessing to work from home but does it mean I am master of time?
Yes when it all goes well I am…. but at times you can more like a Slave at the mercy of a clock that never has enough hours in the day to meet the competing needs of life –parent, worker, boss, partner, and friend.
Working from home is exactly that. Working, but at home. That means, to stand a chance of getting anything done beyond your morning latte, you need to employ a certain level of discipline – as if you were in an office environment.
Do I have to put my face out there and be the face of my business? is a question that most business owners will ask themselves and one that I get asked as a marketing and ideas strategist regularly.
The Answer is YES and let me explain WHY.
Being the face of your brand allows you to build that connection with your audience; it makes your brand more familiar, approachable, and authentic. If you are able to control your brand’s image and the narrative around your story, that puts you in an incredibly powerful position to connect and attract the right people you want to work with.
We have are great at coming up with plenty of reasons not to: your hair isn’t looking great, you’ve had a bad night, it’s a stressful time, but it is these things that connect you to your audience.
Being a business owner is a great job especially if you work remotely or from home. It gives you the freedom to work when and where you want and can offer you that all elusive “balance” you have been looking for…However, it can eat up your life and your time too if you don’t set boundaries and stick to them.
When I first started in business, my phone was by my side and I answered every single message, text, and email as if my life depended on it. I then realised that I was missing out on something… life!