The Importance of Mindfulness for Entrepreneurs | The Journey
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Date: 2020-10-21

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00:34 – What is mindfulness?
01:00 – What does mindfulness have to do with being an entrepreneur?
02:16 – How do I practice mindfulness?
04:23 – Mindfulness strategies

As an entrepreneur, you have a million things to think about. Your day is filled with things that take up space in your mind. However, there is a reason why mindfulness for entrepreneurs — paying close attention to the many thoughts racing through your mind — might be a great business strategy.

Mindfulness is key for unlocking big potential in both you and your business.

What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness is often associated with meditation. But it’s important to note that mindfulness isn’t exclusive to meditation. While meditation can help you become more mindful, mindfulness isn’t something that happens only while meditating. Mindfulness at work and elsewhere isn’t a temporary state and is a habit that can be practiced all day. 

Mindfulness has many benefits that serve entrepreneurs

It improves health
Entrepreneurs rarely can take sick days. They need to be on and at their best almost every day. Mindfulness for entrepreneurs helps maintain their health.

It fights anxiety and depression
The difficulties of entrepreneurship can cause many founders and CEOs to struggle with mental health issues. Mindfulness for entrepreneurs helps treat and reduce anxiety, stress, and depression.

It improves cognitive abilities
Entrepreneurs are constantly problem-solving and using analytical thinking to improve and innovate. Mindfulness gives entrepreneurs the mental clarity and increased brain capacity they need to perform these complex tasks.

It battles burnout
Working long hours on draining projects can take its toll on entrepreneurs. Mindfulness at work helps them fight the mental exhaustion that comes with that tough work. It has been shown to lower the incidence of burnout and turnover at work. Entrepreneurship is tough work. 

How to embrace mindfulness at work

Schedule your day 
Being mindful means being intentional about your thoughts and your actions. You don’t have to become a full creature of habit, but building a loose, adaptable schedule with regular tasks and activities will make it easier to keep you focused.

Include short breaks throughout the day
As you create your daily schedule, don’t fill it with non-stop activity. Leave gaps in your schedule for breaks. In fact, schedule them in. Plan time to leave your desk or office and use that break to get away from your work, go for a walk, or practice mindfulness exercises.

Know when it’s time to stop
If you feel yourself starting to slip and just wasting time, stop working. Even if it throws off your calendar, take a break to re-energize so you can return and do more efficient and effective work. And when it’s the end of the day: stop.

Use an anti-to-do list
Of course, how to use a basic to-do list is common knowledge. However, this strategy is inherently negative. At the end of the day, all your list shows is what you failed to achieve. Anti to-do lists are a smart solution to that problem. They begin empty, and by the end of the day, are filled with the tasks you’ve completed.

Mindfulness for entrepreneurs isn’t something that you can just plan for and hope it happens on its own. It takes intentional effort to remember to check-in and return back to reviewing your thoughts. 

Entrepreneurship is hard. You need every tool available to you to make it easier. So remember, business tools aren’t always directly tied to running everyday operations — sometimes they are tools tied to helping you run your mind.

Use these mindfulness tips to put you in a mindset that will help you work more effectively and efficiently and lead to higher productivity, better results, and more satisfaction with your workdays.

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