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Taking Care of Yourself Will Take Care of Your Business

June 19th, 2009 at 03:12pm Lorie Obernauer

It’s often difficult to stay upbeat when we’re worrying about the financial stability of our businesses. We can become obsessed with cutting costs and forget about all the creative things we’ve done in the past to build our businesses. But in order to be creative and flexible and open to new ideas, we have to feel creative and flexible and open to new ideas! While we may think that putting in 10 hour days is what is needed to get our businesses in shape, it is often that unrelenting focus on problems and  how to “fix everything” that is our worst enemy.

Read “Learn to Glow” from Incentive Magazine to learn how to make the shift from problems to possibilities. According to the author, people who “glow” are able to motivate themselves (and their employees) to be energized and embrace innovation (a necessary ingredient to success in difficult times). “People who Glow have mastered three distinct areas of their life:

•They have built deeply trusting and cooperative relationships with others (a co-operative mindset).
•They have extended their networks beyond the obvious to encompass the unusual (jumping across worlds).
•They are on an inner quest that ignites their own energy and that of others (igniting latent energy).”

Read the full article for more ideas on how to turn on your “glow”. Look for new ways to ignite your own energy: exercise, meditation, or hobbies. Don’t deprive yourself of these important activities that help us be the best we can be. When we take care of ourselves, we are better positioned to take care of others and deal with difficult situations in new creative ways.

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