Prioritizing Your Health to Increase Business Success

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0:47 We take a deep dive into living with intentionality, focusing on what's important in our lives so we can truly feel our best. It may feel chaotic at times, but with a little organization, the right mindset and a ton of self-love, we can still thrive. Join me as we talk to other busy moms and experts who will share tips and strategies to help you reach your goals. Hope you enjoy this episode of Organized Chaos. Now on to the show. Hey friends, welcome back to the show. So today we're talking all about health and how it actually affects our success. So in this episode we'll be discussing why prioritizing your health and well-being is so important to your success, but why it's so hard sometimes.

1:34 I'll also be talking about the different aspects of health, how it impacts our success and some simple ways you can start taking care of yourself today. We all know that our overall health is really important, but health impacts everything, absolutely everything that we do. I mean just think about when we're sick or not feeling well. How well does that go? How does that impact our day-to-day lives? And if you have a chronic illness, it's life-changing. So when I speak about health, I'm really talking about your physical, mental and emotional health, as well as the role of diet, exercise and adequate sleep.

2:16 I mean just even think about the physical aspect of health. So if you're taking care of yourself physically, you feel good, you have more energy and you're reducing the quote, unquote, bad stress and increasing more of the good stress, like exercise and how that translates into other areas of your life, is well. When you feel good, you have more energy, you're more likely to maybe do things with your family. You're more likely to do other physical activities, have hobbies and just create more joy in your life. Now, when you're focused on the mental aspect of your health, then you have maybe sharper mental clarity, you're more focused, which leads you to be more productive and you can create more in your business, or you can focus on your relationships and it just.

3:10 You can kind of tell that just having overall health is a great thing, obviously, but it will translate to other areas of your life and it's there's. There's no way around that, it just is. And even if it's the opposite, if you're in poor health and you're not really focused on that, then it's going to negatively impact other areas of your life. But even if we know this, it still can be hard. It's not because there's not enough time Now I don't want to dive too deep into that aspect of this, but I do want to focus on a couple of beliefs, because our beliefs drive our behavior.

3:58 Now there's two contradictory beliefs. So we understand that taking care of ourselves is important, like we know that we truly believe that our health and taking care of ourselves is important, but we also have this belief that we need to take care of everyone else before we take care of ourselves. So then we're kind of caught in like this tug of war of well, yeah, I know health is important and I know that I need to take care of myself, but I have so much stuff to do and I have to take care of everybody else, because everyone else comes first, and then if there's time, energy, anything left over for me, then I'll take it.

4:44 But we all know that that belief is not going to get you to have a healthy, fulfilling life, because we do need to take care of ourselves and we do need to put ourselves first. And that is a really hard thing to grasp, and that is a really hard thing to grasp especially for moms. But just imagine thinking this way for anything else. It's like not taking care of yourself is like driving a car without changing the oil or doing any type of maintenance. Eventually the engine will burn out and the car won't be able to run anymore. Now what this looks like in real life is you just go, go, go, you don't give anything to yourself and then you completely burn out.

5:32 Now, how this affects our success is because our physical and mental health can impact our productivity, our focus, our creativity and our ability to handle stress. And there's an emotional aspect to this as well, because taking care of ourselves can help us build better relationships with others. So I've shared this story a little bit on the podcast, but I just want to kind of talk about this because it relates so much to this and how health really affects success. And back when I was working full time, I was pretty burnt out at that point because my kids were really young and I was working full time.

6:16 My kids were really young and I was working full time and it was something where it was just constantly go, go, go and I never had enough time or energy to really put back or give back to myself and I just couldn't handle the stress of day-to-day things. And it was affecting my relationship with my husband, it was affecting how I would interact with my kids and I just overall just didn't feel good about myself. And I think it was having more to do with, like, I know it's important for me to focus on myself, but I just can't find what I can do. And it got to the point where I was just, you know, looking for anything, anything that can help me just feel better, and my husband, you know, talked to me about like this workout and I had heard about it before and I was like, okay, that's super scary because, first off, I was not the type of person that enjoyed exercise and then throwing in an intense workout routine was not something I was looking forward to, but something just compelled me to say yes, okay, let's do it, because he wanted to do it together.

7:36 That completely changed my life, and I'm not exaggerating, I mean, obviously it didn't happen overnight, but that was the catalyst to the insane changes that happened in my life and every aspect of my life. But it was still hard. I you know, I'm not going to tell you that I jumped right in and it was all great, and you know, I completely changed my life in. You know, I'm not going to tell you that I jumped right in and it was all great, and you know, I completely changed my life in. You know, a few weeks Like that didn't happen it. It took a while, but it was the, the little steps that I was taking each and every day that compounded into the major changes that happened in my life. And you know, the least of it was the weight change.

8:20 That was, you know, the one thing that I was focusing on at the beginning was oh, I just I want to lose weight, I want to feel good, but that that was just the tip of the iceberg. That happened eventually. But what happened in the middle was, you know, the greatest thing because, first off, I proved to myself that I could do hard things and that I didn't die, and it also I also kind of showed myself that I could commit to myself and that I could stay consistent. Because that was one thing that I was not confident about. I was like, well, I don't know how much this is going to last, because I've done the gym thing and I've done it for a couple of weeks and then I fall off and it was like this constant starting and stopping.

9:11 But this time it was different and I can tell you really quickly why. There were three things. One I did something way, way out of my comfort zone that pretty much put my body into shock. It was something like intense. That was, you know, that I could still do, and maybe I wasn't, you know, 100%, maybe I did 50%, but it was still intense and I put my body into like this different change. The other thing was I was doing it with my husband, so I had accountability, and that kind of that was like audio books, because I could do it like when I was in, like en route to work, and I will listen to these books.

10:23 That were like really inspirational but also practical, like I had like some to do's and I just slowly started making changes. Now I've had success along the way. Like this has, little by little, changed our lives, but every single thing that I would add on and make changes in my personal, mental and emotional health have gotten us to where we are today. And you know, I'm not just talking about like business success, but just our life in general. And for us it all just started with focusing on our physical health and then that just blossomed into something really, really amazing.

11:09 So before I end the episode, I do want to give you a few steps that you can take today that can start that progression for you, that can help you start focusing on any aspect that you want to focus on. So, whether it's your physical, mental or emotional health, now I'll give you one for each one of those aspects. So the physical health, of course I'm going to say do some type of physical activity, and it doesn't have to be something intense, but the focus should be more on the consistency. So if you can think about an activity for yourself that you know you can do on a consistent basis, that's what you start with.

11:57 So, for example, if you know you can go out for a walk on a consistent basis, even if it's five minutes, it could be anything like that. So think about a particular activity that you can do on a consistent basis and start with that. So my next tip has to do with mental health. Now, this is something really simple, but it can be a little hard. So it's going to take some time, and that is putting away your phone 30 minutes before bed. Now, this has a lot to do with the way our brain works and how you know. The phone and just that type of media before bed is not good, because it gets your brain going, it gets you hyped up, and when we're trying to go to bed, we want to calm down and relax and focus on other things.

12:51 So putting your phone away 30 minutes before bed is one thing you can do. It's not going to be easy, but it's something that's going to help you not just be able to go to sleep, but it's also going to help you stay asleep and eventually you'll get better quality sleep. And now the next one is your emotional health. Now, this is something that has really helped me and it's a practice that is very, very simple. Another thing it's not going to be easy but it is simple and that is, you know, doing breathing exercises. So I have used this when I'm in the thick of it and like, let's say, for example, my kids have just gotten on my last nerve or I just, you know, I need to do something to kind of calm my energy down because I'm about to do something kind of scary, like maybe be on a call or something.

13:47 So breathing and doing some type of I mean it could be any type of breathing, but this in particular has really helped me and it's box breathing. So this is where you would breathe in for four seconds, you hold it in for another four seconds and then you breathe out for four seconds again, and then you do this maybe four or five times and that is going to physically calm you down. And that is going to physically calm you down, but it's also going to take you away from whatever was taking your focus. So if, let's say, your stress level was high and the fact that you were counting in your mind and trying to slow down your breathing, that's going to take that mental focus away from that other stress.

14:36 All right, so that's all I have for you today. I hope that was helpful and you can put some of these into practice, but I hope I was able to convince you that focusing on your health is super important and, of course, it will actually help you with your success. And, trust me, this is something that you can start implementing and it's not going to be a waste of time. Any little thing is going to help. Okay, so I hope you have an amazing rest of your day and I will see you next week. Hey, if you love listening to the podcast, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts On iTunes.

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