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Friday
Mar062009

How Professional Women Can Beat Stress and Live a Balanced Life?

 You lately feel that your life is out of balance, right?

How about stress-caused fatigue, tension, anxiety and ill performance?

Let me guess: you strive to be perfect in all areas of your life and juggle multiple roles: spouse, mother, caregiver, friend and entrepreneur.

You continue meeting household and family responsibilities, while at the same time running your business and trying to maintain personal interests.

As demands increase to fulfill these roles, you often feel a sense of losing control and helplessness, making you prone to stress and burnout.

Women are more likely to arrive to work, stressed before their business demands begin.

Lack of balance and demands of home and work are among the major sources of stress in professional women’s lives.  

Finding the right balance helps to restore harmony, reduce stress and helps your professional life prosper.

Today, women face many roles and significant stressors, many of which are different than those faced by men or even women of previous generations. For most women, stress ranks at the top of the list of daily problems.

Believe me, showing signs of stress does not mean you are a weak individual who cannot cope. It means you are human like everyone else.

Most probably you have also tried some stress management strategies but still struggle with stress-caused lack of balance on an ongoing basis. Don’t give up!

Stress in the 21st century is a way of life that needs to be managed because it cannot be exterminated but stress is too dangerous to be ignored.

The cost to your overall health, well-being, performance and productivity can be enormous, leading to serious damage to your life in general.

But - not all stress is bad. For many women, stress can be a positive force in their lives, enabling them to do their best.

In fact, the wisdom lies in knowing how to operate on your personal optimum stress level, and how to take the knowledge and translate it into a set of tools to help overcome barriers stress can create on your way to live the life you desire?

Contact me at info@action4balance.com for a complementary consultation and start living  balanced stress free life.


Recommended Resource:

Achieving Work-Life Balance

 

Friday
Mar062009

HOW your STRESS affects your BUSINESS?

Without You, There Is Nothing

and Attraction Isn't Possible

Claim your own at any hazard.

WALT WHITMAN


Have you ever stopped to consider how the STRESS affects your professional life or business?

It's true...something as " natural" as your everyday stress level can affect your mood, thought processes, and creativity...not to mention your weight (stress elevates cortisol level and actually makes you fat) and risk for developing diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer!

This can have a huge impact on the decisions you make in your professional life.

I know what you think - would a balanced and stress free life influence my professional performance?

I bet it would! It worked for me and the results have been and continue to be amazing!

You are living advertisements. You should be careful what your advertising says.

Take Action:

1. Put yourself at the Top of the List!

Women usually think that doing for others is rewarding. But remember that doing for yourself is rewarding others".Unknown.

If you spend all your free time building your private business, or climbing executive ladder what is your boss, subordinates, prospect going to see? For you to do an amazing job in anything, you have to feel good, have energy, have passion and have the focus to deliver. If you aren't putting yourself first, then it's impossible to have all of these things at the same time! Become irresistibly attractive.

2. Put your business/job second!

The business/job is there to support you and make money. If the business isn't supporting you, then you're not being put first. If the business isn't making money, then it won't last much longer. Truly putting the business second means creating processes, systems and procedures that keep the business going - which means sustaining YOU and your down-line. A truly successful business model is a win-win.....and it is possible!

3. Put clients third!

You heard me right. I don’t suggest neglect them – on the contrary - the first thing you need to add value to all your customers and make them feel there’s no one better to do business with than you. BUT clients want to buy from successful businesses. Part of that successful formula is having happy people and a sustainable business. If either of those is missing, then the customers or even prospects won't show up for long. That's why customers must be third in line when thinking about your business!

How does this relate to my business or job?

I am glad you asked :)

Too many female executives, professionals or business owners agonize over how to create business models that really make them profitable and happy. Many fail. Many spend hours slaving away unhappily or by delaying satisfaction for years to put customers and the business first.

When your life is full of stress and out of balance your business will not succeed for very long. Or if it does, you're still unhappy, so what's the point anyway?

You are your greatest asset! Its time to invest in yourself!


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