My daughter is the mother of a two-year-old! As I watch her, I’m reminded of the exhaustion I experienced while juggling the demands of parenting and building my business! It seemed like a never-ending struggle to get enough sleep AND grow my business.
And yet, parents everywhere seem to do it. We keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep going! It’s that love of our children that keeps us going.
As entrepreneurs, we tend to do the very same thing with our businesses.
You’ve probably heard more than one business owner refer to their business as their baby! It’s because entrepreneurs really do love their companies. Even though we might be exhausted, we keep going. We keep working long hours, including weekends, so we can keep growing our businesses.
In a small study of functional MRI scans from both fathers and business founders, researchers found “strong similarities in the neural responses associated with parenting and entrepreneurial bonding.” In the same way, new parents can function with extreme exhaustion (they love their kid), and entrepreneurs might handle hard things because they love the business.
Due to the high rate of entrepreneurial burnout, there have been numerous studies that give clearer insights to the true causes of entrepreneurial burnout. And even more encouraging are the recent insights into knowing how our own personality TYPE can help prevent burn out and other mental health crisis.
In this week’s episode of Work Less PROFIT More business podcast, I have a candid conversation with Kareen Aristide about how knowing your own DISC personality type can help entrepreneurs prevent burn out and other crisis.
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You can love your business AND have the life you want!
YOU CAN DO THIS!
Diana
