Mindset Entrepreneur Life

You May Benefit from a Shorter Work Week

jane gardner — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 06:02:00 +0000

Getting overwhelmed by the demands on your time?

Working too long hours?

Even if you enjoy your work, eventually you’re going to feel exhausted from what you’re doing without enough down time.

Everyone works well under different circumstances, so while you may be able to work long days, another person may not without getting severely worn out.

In order to avoid getting burnt out, you should adjust your work schedule.

Accordingly. If you’re the type of person that can’t stand working long hours each day, then you should adjust your schedule to work 3-4 hours each day, but work more days each week.

Then, while you work, you’re going to be at your most efficient, but you’re also going to have tons of downtime for the rest of the day once you’re done with work.

To those who are accustomed to working 8 hour shifts, this seems absurd.

However, if you’re the type that tends to fall off in productivity in the latter half of their shift, it makes sense.

While you’re working fewer hours overall, you should be much more productive during the few hours that you are working allowing you to get roughly the same amount of work done.

This same strategy also applies to those who are fine working longer shifts, but need time off. Instead of changing the hours you’re working, you can change your schedule to only work 3-4 days per week.

This gives you much more time off than just the weekend, so you’ll be able to enjoy a lot more time.

Obviously, not everyone can manage to change their work weeks around like this, either because the nature of your business requires you to be operating 7 days a week, or because you really need a certain amount of time each week to keep things working.

In cases like this, this might just not be a feasible option at the moment. For the time being, you might have to work a full work schedule, and it might be a bit grueling for you.

You just have to remember that there will come a time after your work has paid off that you can take much more time to yourself. Try experimenting with different schedules when you have the chance.

You may find that a rather unconventional schedule can lead to fantastic results for you and your business. Some people focus much better knowing they have a limited amount of time to work.

So while five, 8-hour shifts mean they allow a lot of distractions, if they only have five 4-hour shifts, they hunker down and concentrate on achieving whatever goals need to be met.

A shorter work week is possible is you are focused, efficient and make your time management a priority.

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Mindset Traits of the Entrepreneur

qo4kv — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:26:58 +0000

The Mindset Traits of an Entrepreneur are traits for success that you can learn to develop for your entrepreneurial business!

How Do You Overcome Limiting Beliefs?

jane gardner — Fri, 17 May 2019 14:05:00 +0000

Once you have established that you have limiting beliefs which are stopping you from achieving what you want, you can start to take steps to overcome them. It’s not easy and quick to overcome limiting beliefs, particularly if it’s something you’ve been believing for as long as you can remember. Changing something around so drastically requires time and effort, but with the right mindset and support, there’s nothing to stop you.

Try to decide why you believe it

People have limiting beliefs without even realizing why or where they have come from. A lot of the time, limiting beliefs have been created as a person has been growing up and their parents have reinforced an idea enough times that it has remained in the person’s mind for their entire life without question. If you can try to understand why you believe something, tha’s a good first step. You might then realize that you have no idea why you believe it and you shouldn’t believe it at all!

Realize that your beliefs are not you

Just because you’ve ended up believing something doesn’t mean that this is it forever now. You can change your beliefs at any point, so if you’re worried about backtracking, you have every right to do so. Developing as a person is just as much about growing and learning as it is about developing your beliefs and opinions, and if these change over time, that can be a good thing.

Differentiate between your beliefs and how you identify

Just because you don’t want to be something doesn’t mean that you can’t do it. It also doesn’t mean that you have to do it, but if you find yourself making excuse based on the fact that you just don’t think you can do something, this can be an example of a limiting belief.

It’s much more honest and upfront with yourself and others to say that you don’t want to do something, rather than that you can’t do it. Believing and saying that you can’t do something is constantly reinforcing to yourself that there are plenty of things you can’t do and you’re not as good as somebody else who can do it.

Do something different

To break out of the cycle of your limiting beliefs, do something different one day. Push yourself past the boundaries and out of your comfort zone. You never know what might happen.