How Female Entrepreneurs 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?
You strive to be perfect in all areas of your life, 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 them 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 business women’s lives. Finding the right balance helps to restore harmony, reduce stress and helps your business prosper. It’s not a simple task!
Today, women in business 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.
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 personal health, well-being, performance and productivity can be enormous, leading to serious damage to your long term health.
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, 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?
Inese Millere
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Great post. Right now, we The Hot Mommas Project, are working to produce case studies to help young women and girls interested in business that work-life-balance does exist. We encourage everyone to come online, be a role model, and write their (1-2 page, guided) case study. The cases will be available for anyone online for no charge. Sign on at www.hotmommasproject.org to read other cases and to write your own.