Surviving Small Business
How are you feeling right now? Do you feel that your energy levels are high and your full of enthusiasm to tackle the next job on today’s agenda?
Or are you feeling tired, lethargic, overwhelmed with work and struggling with the stress of survival?
Sooner or later every small business person begins to run out of puff and finds that those wonderful feelings of enthusiasm and energy have slipped away. In fact those feelings are something that you can face time and again. Toni and I have certainly faced it and we’re facing it again just now.
And we’re facing it again because we stopped doing something that we once did every day. We have let the pressure of work interfere with those things that can recharge our batteries and help us keep functioning at our peak levels.
No we haven’t stopped eating healthy foods or sleeping for reasonable periods of time each 24 hours. Thankfully we’ve maintained those good habits but we have let our exercise regime slip and we have stopped taking time off for ourselves.
And those things are important in helping us … and you … maintain your enthusiasm and energy levels.
Even though your busy and there is more work pouring in all the time you still have to exercise and take time out. A couple of months ago we would walk every day and we would also take time off on a Monday. But we let the pressure of work get in the way and our personal habits changed. We hardly walk now and we no longer take a day off.
We’re paying the penalty right now and all we can do is urge you to learn from our experience. Exercise daily - even just a walk before you start work can be enough, take time out and get away from work. Shut the door on your office and spend a few hours every week doing something that has no bearing on work at all.
And start doing it now - tomorrow could be too late.
The Dalai Lama once said “I have so much to do today, I will need to meditate twice as long.”
