Solopreneurs, how much focus do you put on yourself?

As an solopreneur, understanding how you work, when best you work, and what you need to use your full potential, while balancing your energy, and sustaining your mental and physical health, is vital for the success of your business.

The way in which we go about and perform our work as solopreneurs needs to be re-assessed. 

As a solopreneur, you are at the core of the work you do. You are constantly using your brain for input and output of information, remembering, creating solutions, making connections, analysing, critical thinking and pulling up your skills, knowledge, and experience.

You are constantly dealing with obligations, responsibilities, tasks, challenges, conflicts, organizing, problem solving, and creating something new.

As the sole person in charge of your business your mental and physical energy is in constant high demand, to be able to achieve your goals of creating high quality services and/or products, which in turn help you to achieve your goals of success.

So, you, the individual are the most important asset of your work

Making you, the core of your work. 

Here is a comparison; a computer functions much like a brain; input, storage, processing and output. If your computer’s hardware or software is not functioning, and not repairable you just buy a new one. 

We use our self, physically and mentally, to be able to give our best work performance in order to get the best results; supporting others, self fulfillment, and many happy customers that in turn create a positive bank account. But you can’t just buy a new you, when you are not functioning properly or burnt out.

Work is not external from us. And can and should not be seen as such. Work is a part of our life, not only in its results, but also on the journey. 

So, if you are the core of your business, isn’t it time you put some focus on yourself? As a solopreneur, understand how you work, when and where best you work, and whaat you need to use your full potential, while balancing your energy, and sustaining your mental and physical health.

And now the question put directly to you: How much focus do you put on yourself?

While you are on your journey, and are building your solopreneur business, and concentrating on your business plan, marketing, budget, target group, branding, and the actual service that you are providing or product which you are producing. How much do you know about yourself, the actual engine of your entire business? 

• What is your input / output rhythm? 

• Where do you get your energy and what robs you of energy?

• What are your habits? Which are helpful to you and your business, and which habits are actually putting you and your business in jeopardy?

• What is your method for decision making and how is this helpful — or unhelpful to your business?

• What about your relationship to courage, risk taking, fear, doubt?

• How do integrate you values to create a business that is true to you?

• How much trust do you put in yourself?

• And how do you want to be seen by your clients? And how do you see yourself?

Work is not external from us and cannot be separated or seen separately. As long as you “carry out your work” you are largely involved. 

Work is a fundamental part of our lives, and it is not possible to be external from it. Work creates a source of meaning, worth, identity, satisfaction and purpose. 

The outcome of the work we do is to essentially provide financial well-being and resources to live a healthy and comfortable life. 

What too many of us forget, is that while we are working we are living, and the living we do while we are working should be in every way, healthy, happy and fulfilling. And not only in the hours after we have “dropped the pen” and gone home. 

Being an entrepreneur, solopreneur, freelancer, mompreneur or whatever form of independent work you do, “dropping the pen down and going home” is often not an option. We are our business, and if we are not careful will find that our office minds are open 24/7. 

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