Success Advice
Is Your Business Killing You? Why Self-Care Unlocks The Highest Levels of Success
Self-care is the most important aspect of running your business
Besides fear, what drives you? And why are you afraid of losing it all anyway? What’s with that?
Being addicted to success and achievement is one of the most noble addictions. But the true gateway to success is not long hours and doing tons of work you hate. True success is getting everything you are going after in life while also feeling and showing up as your best.
According to the most successful people in the world, true success is not just working hard, but it’s working hard at something you deeply love.
There are certain people who’s success makes us feel like they are superheroes. People like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson definitely give us Superhero vibes.
Here Are 5 Self-Care Habits That Can Help Catapult You Toward Your Dreams And Away From Your Fears:
1. Meditation
In a non-cheesy or overused way, meditation is a game-changer. The ability to lower your brainwaves and go down to your Alpha level (as described in the Silva Method) allows you to safely overcome the limited ways of thinking and destructive habits that keep you procrastinating and from achieving your greatest potential.
Meditation is one of the best ways to manage stress and come up with better ideas to grow your business, solve problems, and improve your life.
According to research, about 90-95% percent of all brain activity is subconscious. That is why it can be so hard to overcome self-sabotage, bad habits, and explode your plateaus or areas you feel stuck in life, money, or business. You do not have to fall victim to a life that doesn’t excite you or feels like a constant hamster wheel. Mediation allows you to remove all roadblocks and solve your problems.
2. Work-Life Balance
This sometimes feels like a myth when you are building and running your own business. But setting boundaries for yourself and on your time is actually more profitable.
If you give yourself smaller deadlines and practice Deep Work, you will get more impactful work done in less time which can lead to greater success. Cal Newport says “Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.” Deciding to focus only on the tasks that move your business forward and provide you with the most opportunities for growth, is the one thing that can help you the most.
Dedicate all your focus on the 20% that generates 80% of your results, and delegate the remaining 80% to freelancers and employees.
3. Ikigai
Your ikigai is your purpose in life. This is a Japanese word that means “alive” and “worth”. It is used to describe your well-being, achieved by doing activities that feed your soul, give you life, and advance you in life and your career.
Ikigai has 4 rules: you love it, you are great at it, the world needs it, and you are paid for it. This concept helps to provide you with clarity, direction, and guidance if you feel stuck or like you are at a crossroads in life.
4. Sleep
Your mind, your body, and your business need sleep. As an entrepreneur, you are your business and there isn’t much separation, especially in the beginning or if you decide to remain a solopreneur.
Without enough sleep, your body starts to break down and you have massive brain fog while trying to work and crush your goals. When your body starts to break down it begins to attack itself, your immune system lowers, and you get caught in a cycle that can lead to health issues, anxiety, depression, and little to no productivity.
Your success is directly tied to your health. Skipping sleep is never a good idea. When you take care of your body achieving your goals becomes 10x easier because you have the physical and mental ability to show up and give it your all each day and accomplish great things consistently.
5. Good Food & Good Times
It’s almost scary how different you feel when you fuel your life with the right foods. It’s like all of a sudden you wake up and you actually feel alive, instead of tired or grumpy.
You no longer feel weighed down and sluggish, and many times brain fog also disappears which allows you the clarity you need to tackle your to-do list and make more money.
And when you pair good food with good times, your life somehow feels like it falls into place. Good times include doing something you love each day, spending time with your spouse or significant other, quality time with family and friends, and creating new experiences for yourself that push your boundaries in a good way.
“Self-care is your fuel. Whatever the road ahead or the path you’ve taken, self-care is what keeps your motor running and your wheels turning.” ― Melissa Steginus
Self-care is the most important aspect of running your business
All of these things should be done regularly because without them life feels empty, and that feeling slows and prevents you from growing and achieving the kind of success that is deeply fulfilling and lasts forever.
These things may seem small, but these habits are critical to getting unstuck and moving forward in your life and in your business.
Self-care is the most important aspect of running your business because everything is in your control and everything depends on you to move it forward. But you can’t pour from an empty cup. And you can’t work until the point you are sick and unable to take care of yourself or run your business because you are so burnt out.
When we feel overworked and depleted we achieve some of our worst results. When we are at our wit’s end, beyond frustrated, and caught in a negative self-defeating cycle, there’s no way we can move forward. This is the feeling we want to avoid at all costs. And we can, by prioritizing our well-being.
Have you ever noticed those moments when you worked so hard, and even though you sometimes felt tired, that inner feeling of inspiration and hope energized you and allowed you to rest assured?
Because you felt so confident in what you were doing? This is a healthy feeling we can safely maintain by creating more balance in our lives.
In order to have amazing levels of success, you must first have order and then movement in your life and in your business. When you are clear about your why and your purpose in life, and you work towards it in a way that supports your overall health and well-being, there are no boundaries or limits to your success.
Your success will only slow or break down when something is going on inside of you that blocks you
The only way to truly achieve long-lasting success is to become it internally. Eileen Wilder once said that successful people practice success long before it ever happens for them.
If you visualize and practice your success daily, and develop healthy habits that support you on your journey, your greatest success will be inevitable and long-lived. Which is the greatest success of all.
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How to Alter Your Business Approach With Technological Advancements
Keeping up with technological trends has become a challenge for almost every business owner.
Technology’s evolution has impacted everything, and business is no exception. Keeping up with technological trends has become a challenge for almost every business owner. Entrepreneurs unable to do so are being wiped out of the market.
There is no doubt that AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) have taken over the business world. These technological advancements are impacting decision-making, success percentages, and other entrepreneurial aspects.
Adapting to these developments is integral to business success. Let’s explore how you can accomplish these milestones.
Embed the strength of AI and ML.
AI has modified business operations in major ways. For instance, companies have employed bots for customer support. These bots go through an effective learning process via Machine Learning before being able to answer like humans.
Bots can also perform detailed data analytics and make business moves with high success percentages.
ML is used more for the analysis of data chunks and generating successful predictions. This simply means that business owners do not have to worry about large-scale financial losses.
In terms of deployment and usage, a reputed company like Netflix employs machine learning for decision-making.
Blockchain is increasing the count of business opportunities
Tampering of financial transactions is quite common and causes severe monetary damage to customers. With the rise of digital payments, this risk has increased.
Blockchain is used to elevate your experience for monetary transfers. It combats penetrating events to extract confidential customer information.
Most business sectors are using block chain but finance and supply chain management sections have a higher count. These two corporate sections have several monetary deposits and withdrawals taking place.
In terms of percentage, approximately 72% and 5% of finance and supply chain firms have implemented block chain successfully.
Dedicate Yourself to Continuous Learning and Individual Development
You invest in learning some of the very important skills, including digital marketing, financial management, and how to gain customers as an entrepreneur.
You need to set up your knowledge base about doing business on Coursera and Udemy with the basics that are necessary for the business, building further by networking with experts through webinars.
Besides, Agile methodology will introduce elasticity to your company: this review and feedback system with further correction regularly will allow for enhancing efficiency and promptly reacting to the market.
Developing key skills to achieve goals
Running a business successfully is not only about having niche/domain knowledge. Business owners need to have communication / soft skills as well in addition to niche information.
Here are some key technical/domain-related areas that business owners should have a strong grip on.
Data Storage on Cloud: These days, companies do not store their data on physical servers. Therefore business owners should know how data is stored/edited/removed/updated via AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other platforms.
Data Analysis/Interpretation Qualities: These days, data is as precious as gold. Business owners with data analysis abilities make correct predictions. As a result, their ventures grow in volume.
Development/Coding Knowledge
Programming knowledge gives business owners an edge whether the application is developed in-house or outsourced. It assists in getting updates deployed and handling application underperformance without getting professional support every time.
Hacking proof framework
There is no benefit of having an advanced automated system if can be penetrated. Successful business owners have above-average knowledge of cyber security and hacking attempts. They are able to choose top-notch anti-hacking software without much of an ambiguity.
Communication Abilities/Soft Skills
Here are some key communication qualities that business owners should have:
Communication/Conversation: Business owners should use to-the-point sentences in both written and oral communication.
Issue Resolution Abilities: Business owners should be able to drill down to problems and solve them. This is done successfully only if an entrepreneur has in-depth business domain knowledge.
Agile Implementations
It is mandatory for business owners to have knowledge of iterative/agile models. With such a competitive environment, it is impossible for business owners to succeed without adopting an agile framework.
Create a productive well-crafted Business Strategy
A productive business venture starts with a clear vision. The first factor making a business successful is the idea behind it. It helps with endless growth and combating competition successfully. Katherine Philips once mentioned that business goals are inevitable if goals are set concretely.
- Goals should be based on smart achievements instead of complexity. Focus on the value that each one of them adds.
- Business objectives should not be vague. Key indicators should be constructed to measure the success/failure of each milestone.
- Be realistic when setting goals. Do not aim at impossible milestones since they can be demotivating.
- Milestones/goals need to be time-bound. Set a completion deadline for each one of them.
- Business goals should not be alien. Owners can think out of the box but not be obsolete / unrelated.
Create a productive well-crafted Business Strategy
Business owners cannot succeed without having a network. Some tips help in this case. Attend conferences and professional gatherings to connect with other entrepreneurs.
Here are some other related points business owners should pay attention to.
- Attend meetings and conferences to stay updated with trends and meet business owners who already have well-set ventures. This helps in enhancing the learning curve of new / growing entrepreneurs.
- Being a part of business communities/groups is very productive. When one shares opinions and discusses decision-making tactics, it helps in preventing errors and enhancing success rate.
- Even the most experienced business owners have mentors as learning never stops. Take part in mentorship programs so there is an assurance that you are following the correct roadmap.
Conclusion
There is absolutely no doubt that business dimensions have evolved with technological advancements. Successful entrepreneurs have grabbed these changes in due course of time and continue to evolve. On the other hand, people following old paths and conventional steps fade out of competition. In a nutshell, keep an eye on the processes and practices you follow as these factors decide success rate.
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