Looking After Yourself Isn't Selfish - It's Good Business Sense

Every decision you make has a second and third-order effect. For large decisions that affect your business, you want them to be well thought through, informed and rational. Here’s the thing - you are highly unlikely to make these kinds of decisions if you are sleep deprived, your blood sugar is low and you’re physically out of shape. Essentially, you are robbing from your own body to feed the business machine. You aren’t able to provide your best performance, ultimately, having a negative impact on your business.

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano - ‘A Healthy Mind In A Healthy Body’

If you want your business to be a Gazelle (x10 growth a year) or a Unicorn ($Billion start-up), you need to put yourself first. If you are on a plane, and the oxygen mask comes down, you put on your own first otherwise you can’t help anyone else. This is the same with maintaining your body and mind, so you can focus on your work.

By looking after your own mental and physical wellbeing by eating properly, getting enough sleep and building regular exercise into your daily routine, you are putting your team and business first. After all, you can’t serve anyone if you are sick or exhausted.

If you’ve chosen the coffee pot over forty winks for the last ten years or if you’re a sugar fiend and you’ve lost your running shoes, it’s never too late to tweak your own routine to suit you – just start today. It’s like the Kaizen theory: with a little bit of improvement in every area of your life and business, you will see great effects.

If we’re thinking of it like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, you’re investing in the ‘foundation blocks’ that will enable you to reach self-actualisation (the top shelf). Without these, your decision-making and emotional responses will suffer. You’ll be like a castle built from a pack of cards: if there’s a strong wind or period of heavy stress, the tower will fall. Let’s make sure that that doesn’t happen.

By Alice Bromage MBA MCMI

Resilience, Leadership & Business Development

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