Is It Wise To Do What It Takes, No Matter What? (video)

We choose to become entrepreneurs because of the freedom it promises, the choice, the free reign for creativity and growth. Most entrepreneur mums choose it for the lifestyle that will allow them to spend more time with their family.

We are moving out of a masculine model of work to a more feminine mode, but what does that actually mean? Most talk around this topic is around business structures, ways of doing things and interacting.  And yet it’s no longer about financial equality, it’s about doing things differently.

“Over time women realized that not only was ‘trying to be like men in the workplace’ a Sisyphean fight, but that their efforts were ruining relationships, affecting children and increasing stress-related diseases to epidemic levels.” – Forbes, 2013

What I see around me in my clients and colleagues is that the corporate, masculine work ethic has been brought home. These intelligent, capable, nurturing mothers, women are pushing themselves so hard, albeit using different structures and methods, that they are noticing it physically and emotionally after not heeding those mental/emotional/spiritual signs.

They need a coffee to wake them up in the morning. They need wine to bring them down in the evening. They reach for unhealthy sweet snacks to get them through the afternoon. If this is your current reality then something needs to shift. It may seem like nothing major right now, but if you allow this to carry on it might well be.

Your health needs to be firmly in place, you only have this one body to work with, and that monkey mind to tame. Prioritising your own wellbeing needs to be second nature because this is what fills you up. This is what makes you magnetic, radiant, a woman of joy, of wisdom, of endless possibility.

Without these in place growing your business, being the kind loving wife you want to be and present, conscious mother, attentive friend is going to be an uphill struggle.

Remember a situation where you clearly noticed how much easier and abundant life was, or is, when you’re at the top of YOUR game, personally. What’s the #1 effect or feeling that comes up for you around this?

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