ElevatedBusinessOwner

The reason I wanted to write this blog is because it will only be relevant and applicable to a very small amount of people. If you are the type of person who this blog is for you are getting VERY tetchy right now. A day or two off at Christmas was a nice treat but now you are itching to get back to work. You have lots of new goals and targets for 2025 you want to make a head start on but you are fighting the voice inside your head that is telling you to take a rest. You have loved ones, family or partners moaning at you for not being present. Even when you do try and do work everyone else is on the go slow so you can't get anything done that involves anyone other than yourself. It's frustrating isn't it. While I definitely think there is a conversation to be had about how we can all become more present, I actually think these feelings are GOOD for business. When we are running business day to day I don't think any of us, myself included, realise how much of our time is ...

 For the first time in history we are facing problems of abundance rather than scarcity.  This generally applies to food as we now have an obesity crisis more commonly than famine's in years gone by. I also think this applies to many entrepreneurs. If you are the type of person reading this blog, signing up to courses or watching Ted Talks on YouTube you probably don't need to be told to 'work harder' or 'grind'. For many of us a constant quest to work, likely fuelled by social media, is actually doing us no favours. Taking downtime is KEY to ensure that the hours we do work are focused and productive. For me this time is doing the sauna and ice bath. It allows me to reset and de-stress so that when I go back to work I'm operating on a higher frequency. For the driven entrepreneurs reading this we are in the 1%.  We are the people for whom discipline is NOT working rather than working. For me taking the hour from 2-3pm to go in the sauna and ice bath and res...