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Running a business can take a toll on your health.

Here are some key factors to watch out for:

1. Lack of sleep: Difficulty sleeping can lead to fatigue and affect productivity.
2. Poor nutrition: Quick, unhealthy meals can lead to weight gain and other health problems.
3. Stress: Managing stress is crucial to avoid anxiety and depression.
4. Sedentary lifestyle: Sitting for long hours can cause weight gain and back pain. Exercise is important even when busy with work.

To cope with those health challenges faced by entrepreneurs, here are a couple of suggestions from my side.

Let’s dive in.

1/ Lack of sleep: prioritize sleep and create a bedtime routine to help you relax and wind down at night.

→ Try Yoga Nidra. This requires no movement, you are laying on your bed. It is also known as effortless relaxation. You enter a calming state for the mind and body through guided meditation. 

This practice involves altering brain waves, by releasing emotional tension, slowing the nervous system, and allowing muscles to relax, and so to fall and stay asleep.

2/ Poor nutrition: plan and prepare healthy meals in advance, and avoid relying on fast food or processed snacks.

→ Learn simple and quick cooking hacks that are a no-brainer

E.g. shape your plate, so that you have a source of complex carbohydrates, a portion of protein, and some vegetables. There are plenty of ideas of food you can combine and prepare in a max of 10 to 15 minutes.

→ When eating out, try to choose restaurants that offer simple meals. Avoid sauces, which can add extra fat and sugar, and also avoid fried food.

3/ Stress: practice stress-reducing techniques like mindfulness, meditation, or exercise, and regularly take breaks throughout the day.

→ Think of your preferred ways to reduce stress, and schedule time for it. Often what’s not on our calendars, is not going to happen.

! Think of how to avoid the “always on” approach. Unless your life and the life of somebody else really depends on it (see doctors, surgeons, etc), you don’t need to be always on.

4/ Sedentary lifestyle: prioritize physical activity by scheduling breaks to stand up and move around, or by incorporating exercise into your daily routine.

→ Try to think of which daily activities you can switch from sitting to moving. Phone calls? Messaging with voice recognition (as Curt has taught me), or brainstorming ideas.