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The stress and pressures of work can often get into you, sometimes ruining your mood or affecting your physical, emotional and mental state of well-being. Indulging yourself in hobbies can relax your mind and bring joy to your heart. But when you are too preoccupied in your business with no time for other things, you may be at a loss on the type of hobby you can start.
Sleepless nights, missed meals, fatigue and stress can cause illness and weaken your body. With so many people and an entire business relying on you as an entrepreneur, you need to take care of your health. To keep diseases away, taking vitamins regularly can boost your body. As the saying goes, “prevention is better than cure.”
Keeping up with your finances is always a major hurdle when it comes to managing your venture. Accounting is a key element that you must carefully pay attention to when running a business. Being conscious of your cash flow is important given that so much investment goes to setting up and maintaining your business, whether it is self-funded or financed by investors. Moreover, it is the lifeblood of your enterprise, which is why you need to go over your books even if you are not good with numbers or merely not fond of them.
Several studies and researches have shown the effect of music on the brain, including how it stimulates the mind, improves memory and reduces stress. Music can also be a powerful factor in honing the skills and creativity of entrepreneurs. Picking up an instrument and learning to play it will not only make a great hobby but it can also bring a lot of benefits to one’s wellbeing, as well as insights that you can apply to your entrepreneurial journey.
When you achieve a certain level of success as an entrepreneur, one of the things you’ll receive are invitations to speak to a group and share your entrepreneurial journey with them. While there are some that feel right at home on stage and under the spotlight, there are those that find it daunting to face and talk to an audience, especially a large one.
When the hardships of the entrepreneurial journey take a toll on you, you often need the power of words to encourage, uplift and inspire you to keep going. Some wise quotes from successful entrepreneurs who have been through it all can give you a little push to strive towards your goals. Their words can remind you how these business owners have triumphed in their respective challenges and adversities.
It takes a lot of effort to plan, prepare, start, manage, sustain and grow a business. However, most ventures revolve around the business owner. If the entrepreneur does not have any business partner or family members involved and when unexpected things happen on the owner without any backup plan in place, all those hard work may go down the drain.
Running a business of your own and providing quality time for the family are two priorities that many entrepreneurs try to balance in their lives. There are several schools of thoughts when it comes to juggling personal and business responsibilities. Likewise, every entrepreneur has a different approach to managing their time, based on what works best for them.
When your day is spent sitting in front of your computer, and the only break you get is attending meetings left and right, your body slacks off, while it absorbs all the tension at work. With so many tasks, responsibilities and people vying for your attention, you may inadvertently skip your gym sessions or never be able to fit exercise in your busy schedule.
Assuming that you have perfected your new product or service and you are ready to tell the world about it, how do you make sure that many will know of and avail of your new offering? You need to come up with a well-thought plan to hype your product, service or campaign to the public, especially to your existing and prospective customers and clientele.
Catchy phrases for slogans and taglines help us remember more about a brand or a business. While a tagline refers to the entire company, a slogan is usually used for advertising purposes to promote a product or brand. Nevertheless, marketers have tapped on the power of words to make their brands become top-of-mind in their industries.
Starting and running a business is not only all about checking the books and finding the money. The entrepreneurial journey is also a journey of learning where entrepreneurs can expand their horizon about business, about themselves and about life, in general. For those who have taken their journey aboard the EO vehicle, there is an exciting part where members get to connect with their fellow EOers around the world through the MyEO program.
Before the advent of modern technology, theatre plays were a venue to express the ills of society to shape the minds of the public. Over the years, it has become a form of art and a means of preserving the history, traditions and culture of a place. It has earned high artistic and entertainment value while maintaining its purpose of educating its audience.
Perhaps people are confident to go after their passion to start a business because they have acquired enough experience to do so or their training and educational background provided them with the knowledge and skills to make it happen. Still, this does not mean that business owners already know everything. They need to constantly update themselves with the latest trends and upgrade their proficiencies to move their ventures forward.
Drone cameras are getting more popular that almost anyone can purchase one and fly it on their own. Because a drone is now a must-have gadget, especially among travellers and photography enthusiasts, people think that it is easy to fly them. It may seem so, but unknown to many, it is also easy to crash them. It can be compared with starting and owning a business. The majority only pays attention to the rewards but fails to realise the difficulty of keeping a venture afloat and letting it soar to success.
Work never stops in an office. Every day, there are new tasks to perform, new fires to put out, new targets to reach and new ideas to execute. Things-to-do keep piling up on your desk and in your inbox. Before you know it, you are already swamped with a lot of files that you miss out on some important matters that needed your attention.
Finding team members, those with the precise skills set, work ethics and culture fit, that blend well together is a godsend to any entrepreneur. Great talent, good chemistry and shared vision among staff do not come often. Thus, business owners must be able to retain good people in the organisation. Key to that is by keeping them happy at all times so that they maintain a good disposition in their workplace and towards their jobs.
