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How to Stay Motivated || 10 Tips & Life Hacks

The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Goal Setting

Written by Ben Ivey

Motivation is like a shower, you need to take it daily.

Use these tips to help keep you consistently motivated towards your ideal business and lifestyle.

1. Create a powerful morning routine

powerful morning routine

Your morning routine is key to help put you in the right state for the rest of your day.

How often do you wake up grumpy, sluggish or tired? If you don’t have a routine to help move you out of this state it can have a big negative impact. Instead use gratitude, meditation and visualisation to move yourself into the right state.

You need to have a combination of different exercises that work for you, to prepare you for the day. This routine you do on a consistent basis will help you not only feel better about your life and business, but will start to create momentum to achieve the life you deserve.

The best thing is that it’s this consistency that once built, which means that you don’t need motivation, as you’ll start doing it out of habit. A powerful morning routine is a must!

2. Have a vision board

This is your why. It’s why you do the things you do. Using this you can start to focus on what it is that you want to build and create.

Don’t have something that is boring; make this vision board exciting that you truly want to manifest in your life. Think about how you want to run your business, imagine the team you want to create and the lifestyle you want to live.

By doing this on a regular basis you’re going to be truly focused and the actions you take daily will be more directed towards the attainment of your vision.

3. Measure your progress

This is incredibly important. Remember that progress can also be equated to happiness.

You need to start measuring your progress. Think about the micro wins you have each day and the actions you take that move you towards what you desire. If you don’t acknowledge the small things it’s easy to become demotivated.

Don’t do this in just one area of your life, measure progress in all the different areas of your life so that you can see the steps you are making. This also helps to remind you when you’re falling off track as you are measuring the actions you’re taking.

4. Hire a coach or mentor

mentor

You need to have someone to help push you and show you what is possible in the world.

They may believe in you more than you do and that will really help you stay motivated!

Gaining perspectives, insights and clarity into what you’re doing from someone that has either done it before or can ask the right questions, is a priceless investment that will keep you accountable and help you think bigger.

If you haven’t yet, make sure to hire someone and have coaching so that you can reach higher levels of success, abundance and happiness in your life.

5. Create an empowering environment

Your environment is so important for success in business, especially now that many people are working from home.

Have you created an environment that truly empowers you? Do you have things that make you smile, pictures, images or art?

If you haven’t yet, think about what your environment would look like if you had already achieved what you desire.

This will help you put the right elements in place to keep you on track, inspired and focused on creating what you desire.

6. Spend time with inspirational people.

Spend time with people that truly inspire you. This in and of itself will help lift your spirits more than most other things.

Think about in your life where you’ve had a conversation and thought WOW this person is AMAZING! It’s often those small conversations that really inspire us as to what is possible in the world.

If you don’t have access to people like that make sure to check out the Entrepreneur Lifestyle podcast to help keep you inspired on your journey.

Remember don’t spend time with people that drain you of energy. These people are the equivalent of an energy sucking vampire. Avoid them at all costs!

7. Read/listen to brilliant books.

Someone that writes a book generally speaking has spent decades of his or her life researching, analysing and looking at all the best things they have found on a given subject.

Listening to these people saves you decades of time. Find people that you admire and are inspired by and make sure to buy their book.

This will help flood your mind with positivity, perspective and growth that helps you move to higher heights in your life.

8. Do something you love

do something you love

Don’t stay stuck in the same mundane routine you have done for years.

Instead focus on something you enjoy doing. Whether this is going out running in the park, salsa in the evenings or playing board games with friends.

What is it that you love doing? What would an awesome week look like for you?

I challenge you to pause and consider these questions.

Being aware of these things is one thing, however what is more important is making it happen and taking action. I challenge you to pick one thing that you love and start doing it in the next 2 weeks.

9. Keep hungry

Don’t become complacent and comfortable where you are.

Being comfortable is one of the worst things for humans because it keeps you in the same place.

Remember if you aren’t growing you’re dying.

You need to dream big enough so that you’re excited and have something that you’re really working towards. People that I work with often have a big dream but it’s not big enough to really excite them.

Perhaps it’s time for you to play a bigger game? Where do you need to step up and start to push yourself to even greater heights?

10. Rest

It’s important to take time off and relax; no one can keep going 24/7.

Once you have rested you will feel energised and ready to go. This especially applies to all business owners out there running around like headless chickens being “busy”.

Rest is often the catalyst that gives you new creative ideas to help accelerate your business in new ways.

I challenge you to take off an afternoon on a weekday, start scheduling holidays and give yourself the break you so deserve.

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5 questions to consider when starting again in life

The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Goal Setting

Written by Ben Ivey

If I could design a life that is extraordinary what would I be doing?

Here you’re looking into opportunities to take your life in a new direction, or up to a higher level.

Most people settle for an average life, instead of striving for an extraordinary one. Let me ask you: are you an average human being?

If the answer is no, why would you settle for an average life?

It’s time to start designing your life in a way that excites you. Spend some time answering this question and watch as the magic of your imagination unfolds.

What can I always be grateful for in life?

Next look into bringing more gratitude into your life, which will make you feel more abundant.

If you’ve hit a big hurdle, it’s easy to feel like you’ve lost incredibly important elements in your life. Instead, I want you to start to think of the things that you can truly be grateful for in your life; that are almost always there.

For example: oxygen, transportation, clean water, your eyes to see, your hands to touch, your legs so you can move about in the day. If you can start to switch your mind and think like this each day, it will put you in a better position to start to live an even more abundant life than before you went through this challenging period.

What have I learnt and what will I do differently from now on?

This 2 part question is fantastic because it not only gives you an opportunity to reflect on what you have done so far. (Very often in life we forget how important it is to reflect on our mistakes.) By asking this you can spend some time digging at the life lessons that you’ve received.

Reflecting is one thing, yet what will you do differently from now on? This second step is where the rubber hits the road. For example I was aware that I burnt out and was low on energy, yet it took months before I did anything about it.

Imagine if you could adapt to circumstances now so the same mistakes didn’t occur again or were very unlikely occur? This is where true transformation takes place.

If I died tomorrow what regrets would I have?

Life has no meaning except the meaning that you give it.

Death helps put life into perspective. You know that you’ll die at some point in the future. Despite this being a morbid outlook it can actually help you live more in the present.

This is where you can start to think about what you want to do in your life and how you want to be each day.

If you only had a week left to live I’m sure you would be acting slightly different than you are at present.

I highly doubt you would be as stressed but instead really put things into perspective. So dive into this question and start to work out what are the MUSTS for you to do in your life.

What are my next steps?

It’s all good and well planning. However, if we can’t chunk it down to the steps that you need to do now, to start moving, then your time reading this was useless.

This is where you may move into analysis paralysis. You want to create changes but don’t know where to start. I want you to think of at least 3 steps, one of which you must take now, in order to start making progress towards making this new life a reality.

These actions will solidify everything that you’ve done throughout the previous questions and you’ll start to be on a success cycle.

Once again make sure that you implement and do these, otherwise they’re another idea that will be useless to you.

Knowledge is potential power. It’s time to use that power and make it happen!

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20 tips to have a healthier lifestyle

The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Goal Setting

Written by Ben Ivey

1. Drink More Water

Did you know that 60% of our bodies are water? Water is key and yet most of us forget to drink it in the day. On average a person needs between 2 and 4 litres of water a day to be functioning at maximum capacity. You must increase your water intake if you want to function at your best and be healthier each day.

2. Take a lunch break walk outside

Taking a walk at lunch helps you get outside, see the world and take a break from work. This space adds to creativity, helps you exercise more and allows you to be social out of the office. It is also one of the best ways to get a good healthy dose of Vitamin D.

3. Exercise more

Consistent Exercise

Exercising the body is of paramount importance. It is through exercise that you can stimulate different parts of your brain to give you more brainpower and a boost of energy to complete your day more easily. Exercise can be running, swimming, going to the gym or any other way in which you are moving your body as opposed to sitting all day.

4. Eat more fruits and vegetables

Fruits and vegetables should be 70% of your diet! Most entrepreneurs in the world probably get about 5-15% of their daily intake through these sources. If you want to be healthier then certainly increasing your intake will do wonders for your health.

5. Avoid artificial sweeteners

They’re easy to add as they give you a sugar boost and our bodies believe they taste nicer. However, it doesn’t do your body any good and actually disrupts the normal systems your body has. In many cases it also causes you to become hungrier after, due to the spike in sugar levels.

6. Schedule exercise in your week

If it’s scheduled then you will do it. The amount of entrepreneurs that I work with that say they want to make time for exercise but become too busy is not worth counting. If you really want to change your lifestyle then exercising needs to become a priority in your life.

7. Eat when your body is hungry,
not your mind

10 Healthy habits all business owners need to start

Often we see a piece of cake or chocolate and have a craving to eat it. This is often the mind telling you, that you’re hungry as opposed to physical hunger. Start to practice telling the difference between these to start to take back control of what you eat.

8. Have more fun

Healthy people look to have more fun in their lives because they know that when they have fun they can truly unwind and relax. There are too many people in this world that don’t have balance and work far too hard. It is through this that you can really start to shift your life and have an abundance of fun moving forward.

9. Be aware of your steps

Healthy people are aware of how much they walk in the day. They may have a tracker or use their phone but they understand that as a human if you walk less than 6000 steps in a day then your body will start breaking down and giving you aches and pains. Aim for around 10,000 steps per day and don’t stop until you hit the target!

10. Allow yourself to cheat

No I don’t mean cheating in relationships. I mean having cheat food, whether these are cocktails, chocolate, cakes whatever it is. Allow yourself the flexibility to have these from time to time. If you don’t do this what will happen is that you will do great for a period of time and then one day will come where you binge eat on everything. It’s much better to do it sustainably than a binge eating session!

11. Order dressing on the side

When you order food, have the dressing on the side. People are often not aware of the amount of oil, cream and calories in a dressing. Use dressings sparingly and don’t drench your food in it.

12. Eat healthy fats

Research continually shows that eating healthy fats such as omega 3 found in nuts, fish, avocado and olive oil, helps to protect your against high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease.

13. Cook at home

Healthier people tend to cook at home because they understand what they are putting into their food. If you eat out many times in the week, you may not know what is really in the dishes that you are eating. They may look healthy but where the food is from and how it’s cooked has a big impact on how healthy the dish is to your body.

14. Eat simple meals often

Fit people create simple meals that they have very often. These are often balanced meals that truly give them the nutrition they need as they go about their day. Find the meals that work for you, keep it simple and have them often.

15. Listen to your body

Listening to your body is one of the best skills you can develop. Whether it is allowing you to rest, eating a certain type of food or exercising slightly harder on a certain day. Learn to differentiate between listening to your body’s cravings and understanding what your body truly needs.

16. Sleep more

We live in a society where most people don’t get enough sleep. If you have more sleep then you will feel yourself being able to focus more, exercise harder and be in a better mood throughout the day. Sleep is of paramount importance and something that should not be overlooked. 

17. Improve your posture

This is a major issue that many entrepreneurs face. Over time we often begin to adopt bad habits in our posture that cause our bodies to overcompensate in different areas. A tight hip can lead to shoulder pain. There are many examples of this so make sure that you are doing exercises regularly to reset your body back to its normal state.

18. Stop eating when you feel full

It’s very easy for us to want to eat everything on our plate. Instead learn to listen to your body and stop when you are 80% full. It takes some time for your body to digest your food and for you to feel full, so wait 10 minutes and most likely you won’t need to eat more. If you do, just drink some water as most commonly you’ll be feeling dehydrated after the meal.

19. Avoid soda drinks

If you drink soda drinks often it’s often equated to drinking empty calories. They don’t do anything for your body except add to your calories for the day. Choose to have green tea, vegetable juices and water instead.

20. Learn to say no

Healthy people know when they don’t want to eat more or when they don’t want to have another drink. It’s this discipline that allows them to maintain a healthy lifestyle throughout the year. As you start to install this in your life, you will notice that people will respect you more and you will feel so much better!

Healthy people know when they don’t want to eat more or when they don’t want to have another drink. It’s this discipline that allows them to maintain a healthy lifestyle throughout the year. As you start to install this in your life, you will notice that people will respect you more and you will feel so much better!

I hope you can learn to be disciplined enough to live the life that you deserve! If you want to be healthier and happier on your journey make sure to check out the Entrepreneur Lifestyle Accelerator.

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10 Healthy habits all business owners need to start

The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Goal Setting

Written by Ben Ivey
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1. Don’t do bad days

bad days

It’s easy to wake up and have a great day when everything is going according to plan. Yet the truth is that doesn’t happen on most days. As an entrepreneur you will have very tough challenges and hurdles to face on your journey.

However, if you can choose to not let a bad issue create a bad day, you’ll create a better life and business as a result. Take issues into perspective and make sure it doesn’t influence other aspects of your life and work.

A habit to help you manage this is to turn to appreciation. In times of stress, think about what you can appreciate so that you can avoid one bad issue turning into a bad day!

2. Be active in the morning

Did you know that on average business owners wake up between 5am to 6am? This is because they have to prioritise themselves and their health. What most of them do straight away, is move their body. It could be going to the gym, going for a run or a walk outside.

The priority for you is to be active and exercise in the morning. Very often when business issues arise, you may not have time in the afternoon or evening. By exercising early on, it will allow you to get off to a great start to your day.

3. Create a system for your time

As a business owner, you not only have to manage business, but also your personal and family life. All these areas require time, so being able to time block and plan is of paramount importance.

In order for you to not be stressed and overwhelmed, a system for time is a must. Whether it is time blocking, the pomodoro technique or repeating tasks in your calendar, be sure to find a system that works for you consistently. If you are feeling overwhelmed with time, make sure to download the 5 hacks to overcome overwhelm

4. Read a book a week

CEOs keep their mind healthy by constantly absorbing new information and learning in their field. On average CEOs read 1 book a week. You may say this is excessive.

Yet, if you think about the amount of different departments a business owner has to manage, doesn’t it make sense to read a book from different experts to help make more informed decisions? Of course it does!

One of the best ways business owners do this is by listening to books or speed-reading books. If you aren’t doing either of these, now is the time to start! I recommend learning to listen at 2-3 x speed to help you absorb information in a more efficient way.

5. Healthy smoothies

Many business owners don’t have time to cook in their day because of their lifestyle, so one of the habits they often adopt is drinking healthy smoothies.

This is a great way for you to gain lots of nutrients very quickly. Many of the business owners I work with choose to have one meal a day as a shake to enable them to be fueled and maintain concentration without having to sit down for half an hour to eat.

6. Hydrate

This applies to everyone. Did you know that most people are dehydrated throughout the day? Yes that’s correct most people drink far less than they need to be functioning optimally.

To keep healthy as a business owner, you’ll need to be drinking water regularly throughout the day, every 15 minutes is ideal. This is to make sure that your brain is working at optimal levels in all the meetings and tasks you have in the day.

7. Consistently move

Since business owners have many meetings, you would think they would be sitting in a room the entire day right? Actually this is not the case. It’s of paramount importance to be active so that your body doesn’t ache and you don’t lose focus in the day.

The most healthy business owners actually move throughout their whole day. You can do this through walking meetings, walking around at lunch or even just a 5 minute walk through the office.

One of the best ways to gain steps in the day is to walk around a room, on any zoom call you are part of. Make sure that your video is turned off as you do this though!

8. Stress management techniques

stress

For any business there are always going to be times where you can feel stressed. Those that are aware of this stress and how to manage it, have a much better life than those that don’t.

Be it meditating, taking a walk in nature, unwinding at the end of the day, speaking to mentors, brainstorming in a mastermind …etc. Every single business owner I work with that creates this balance at work has found a way to distress himself or herself, so that they aren’t overwhelmed by their work.

This is something that is a must.. If you’re having trouble managing stress check out this article: 7 ways to quickly reduce stress and anxiety

9. Create a great evening routine

Business owners are aware that you have to get enough sleep. Of course there will be times where they get less as they run large businesses. However, what is important to them is that they have a routine that helps reset them each day.

This has to include getting to bed at roughly the same time each day, unwinding and planning the next day. This will allow you to consistently reset so that you can serve better in your business each day.

10. Celebrate your successes

It’s easy as entrepreneur’s to forget about how much you have accomplished. You’re doing so much and are so focused on the vision in the future that it’s easy to miss the successes that you are having along the way.

You must choose to acknowledge all the mini successes that you have to help give you the motivation and inspiration to accomplish your future goals. One of the best ways to do this is to write down 3 wins at the end of each day!

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12 Ways to Manage Stress in Business

The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Goal Setting

Written by Ben Ivey

1. Tidy your environment

tidy up things

When you’re feeling down as an entrepreneur, your environment is often a representation of how you feel. A disorganised screen on your laptop, papers everywhere and reminder notes scattered in your room are common examples.

If you can start by tidying your environment it will help you feel better so that you can tackle the day in a better state.

2. Remind yourself of what is going right

I find that entrepreneurs who are feeling down are focusing on all the issues in their business as opposed to what is going right. Reflect on what you’re focusing on at the moment.

Are you focusing on issues you’re facing or reflecting on how far you’ve come?

If you can ask an empowering question such as what is going right in my business right now? It will help you move out of a negative emotional state.

3. Identify what causes you stress

Self awareness is the first step to enable you to overcome what is really causing you stress as a business owner. One of the best ways to identify these stressors is to take a step back and really reflect as to what is driving this stress.

Is it a specific challenge, a series of challenges, work colleagues, money ..etc? If you haven’t started journaling, I think it’s one of the best ways to help you identify what is causing you stress. Once you have identified the cause, then start to take actionable steps to overcome it.

4. Deload your brain

Most business owners when they are stressed, are thinking about too many projects, tasks and deadlines. One of the best ways to tackle this is by deloading your mind. This involves writing everything down that you’re trying to process.

You can do this either in the evening or in the morning, and once you do, you’ll find that your mind is much clearer as a result. This is not just a one time fix, this is a regular habit to install to allow your mind to fully process everything that is going on.

5. Exercise regularly

Exercising helps release dopamine in the brain, it helps your brain function and helps you think in different ways. Plus moving your body will just make you feel good!

If you can, exercise outside because then you can really move outside of the box life that most people live in and start to observe and appreciate the world around you.

6. Eat something healthy

Many business owners eat incredibly unhealthy food and wonder why they don’t feel good.

One of the best tips to help you become more healthy is to have 70% of your diet consisting of foods that are alive. These include all vegetables and fruits! By eating foods that are alive, you’ll start to feel better and think more clearly as a result.

7. Meditate

meditate

Sometimes we rush around so much, we never actually stop to think about how we’re really feeling in the business. When you suppress emotions what’s really happening is like a jack in the box getting ready to explode. You want to make sure you are processing everything that’s going on so that you don’t burn out nor say something that you regret.

Spend some time thinking about what is bothering you. You’ll start to observe your mind instead of thinking that you are your mind. This is one of the best ways to help manage stress.

8. Have a power nap

Power naps are one of the best stress relieving hacks for entrepreneurs! In life you may forget how important it is for your body to rest and actually recharge.

When speaking globally, power naps are one of the best ways to adjust to time zones and help me feel recharged. Sometimes just rejuvenating ourselves by going to sleep is one of the best ways to really make yourself feel better and think more clearly. Yes you can do this in your normal work week and you’ll be amazed with how you feel!

9. Put on music that inspires you

We all have our pump up songs that makes us feel amazing and it isn’t just the music but it’s the actual vibrations that help shift our body. This helps create an immediate change in how you feel.

Go dance around listening to your favourite tunes and then tell me if you are feeling stressed after! The truth is that your state can change instantaneously but it’s about interrupting the pattern. You have a negative pattern when you become stressed and music is a fantastic way to interrupt it.

When you can become a master of understanding how to interrupt your patterns then you will start to live an extraordinary life instead of a difficult stressed life that most business owners settle for.

10. Listen to inspiration

There is inspiration all around us. Read an entrepreneur’s autobiography, listen to inspirational leaders on YouTube, listen to any of the videos we share and hopefully it will make you laugh or atleast offer a different perspective.

This inspiration can keep you going through tough times. Remember motivation is like a shower you should take it daily! Yes you should be showering daily if you aren’t already and motivation is the same!

11. Speak to Friends

speak to friends

Friends know how to cheer you up, you can share your challenges and talk about what’s going on as opposed to bottling it up. It’s easy especially for male business owners to not share what’s really going on.

What I recommend is that you begin authentically sharing, and that vulnerability will allow others to open up to. Friends are such a great resource to help manage stress, use them and don’t take the burden on by yourself.

12. This too shall pass

One of the best ways to manage stress is to remind yourself of this phrase:

This too shall pass.

No matter what you’re experiencing, the challenges you’re facing or the crisis at hand. Remember, this too shall pass. Consider the question, will this matter, 5, 10 30 years down the line? If not, maybe add some perspective to allow yourself to be in a better emotional state.

2 extras points you may want to consider:

Watch a funny movie Laughing is a fantastic way to allow yourself to unwind and destress. Watching a movie that makes you laugh and causes you to feel good is a great start. You can take your mind off the stress that you have and immerse yourself in something different. This isn’t to distract you from what is going on in the business, but instead help you to stop overthinking. You’ll give yourself a break to truly relax and have a bit of fun! Spend time with children spend time childrenThis is so important because you start to see the innocence of life and how carefree children are. Through them you can start to appreciate what life really is about. When watching a child, they will make you laugh purely by how ridiculously authentic they are, they won’t fart and blame someone else. They fart and are surprised where it comes from! They don’t just sit there on their phone, they are genuinely fascinated by the world. Their wonder is something that can help you move out of any negative state. When all is said and done, remember that our lives will be gone in a flash. It’s important to utilise everything you have whilst you are still here. Choose to live an extraordinary life and let us help you on your journey. If you haven’t yet check out the Entrepreneur Lifestyle Accelerator to help you boost business success whilst creating your ideal lifestyle.

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7 ways to quickly reduce stress and anxiety

The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Goal Setting

Written by Ben Ivey

It’s easy to overcomplicate what you have to do to reduce stress and anxiety.

I hope the following 7 points help to offer a simple perspective to help you overcome these negative emotions.

If you feel like you know some of these points already, I want you to consider this: If you know something but you don’t do it, do you really know it?

I’d challenge you to implement what you learn below and I hope it can help you, just like these strategies have helped many other entrepreneurs.

1. Positive questions

This is such a key technique that has helped hundreds of the people I have worked with over the years. I find it is very common for entrepreneurs to ask questions such as: what is the worst that could happen?

The answers to these types of questions lead them on a downward spiral, where they keep coming up with even more terrible possibilities.

An alternative question to ask yourself could be: how can I appreciate that this moment is perfect just the way it is?

This alternative question allows your brain to focus on what is right as opposed to what is wrong. This in turn can help reduce your stress and anxiety in a very fast way.

2. Keep Walking

Keep Walking

Walking is one of the best techniques that I use to help myself reduce stress during the day. Yes it is still possible to feel stress! What differentiates those who have a great lifestyle vs those that struggle, is the way in which you manage it.

By going on a walk it helps you relax, your mind is stimulated in a different way and you can start thinking in a much clearer way. I challenge you to walk 10,000 steps minimum per day, to keep your mind and body in peak condition.

3. Hydrate more

Do you ever find that how your feel energy wise, affects how you respond to challenges as an entrepreneur? Some days you can deal with everything, but other days, something small can really stress you out.

Even more so there are even days where you feel a build up of stress over time until you feel like exploding like a volcano. One of the best ways to tackle this is actually through hydration.

Since our bodies are 60% water and our brain is 80% water. Anything that we do that dehydrates us will negatively affect us operating at an optimal level of energy.

Losses of 5% of your body weight in water decrease the capacity of work by 30%! You want to make sure that you’re adequately hydrated during the day, as it will help you have more energy to deal with issues.

4. Change perspective

Put it into perspective, does it really matter? Have you ever felt extremely frustrated that an email wouldn’t send, or a person hasn’t finished an item that you need ASAP? All entrepreneurs have been in these scenarios, yet can you change your perspective to maintain relaxed and avoid stress?

The key here is to think, will this really matter in 5 years time? What could I appreciate about this moment right now? Perhaps even taking a break for 5 minutes and coming back can help give you that new perspective to tackle something from a different angle.

5. Consistent Exercise

Consistent Exercise

If you’re struggling, frustrated and angry at a situation, one of the best ways to help reduce these negative emotions is through exercise. Whether this is going to the gym and lifting weight, doing gentle yoga or going for a run in nature.

You need to have a simple exercise practice that you can turn to, that will help shift your emotional state. Make sure that you pick an exercise that you enjoy doing that helps change your mood in a quick way.

6. Relax

You can’t focus on work 24/7 yet I find the people who are most stressed and anxious don’t ever relax. Go for a massage, have a bath or even a spa retreat! I am not sure what your guilty pleasure is to unwind, but whatever it is, do it.

If you’re constantly working on the business and on your breaks, are still thinking about the business, this is a must! You need to create a relaxing routine that allows you to let go of your stress and anxiousness each and everyday.

7. Breathing

Breathing is a great way to control your emotional state. When you’re anxious and stressed, your breathing is shallow. Instead choose to take deep breaths and focus on your breathing. This can help you more easily control how you feel and what you experience.

Remember, where focus goes energy flows. You want to make sure you focus on what makes you feel good, and not what causes you to feel anxious.

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