Enablers for Success: Looking After Your Well-being When Your Life Is Busy

Monday 22 July 2013

Looking After Your Well-being When Your Life Is Busy

When you are either starting a business or already running a business its important that you take the time to look after your well-being. Remaining focused and having a clear mind is important especially when you are having to make decisions that impact you financially.

There has been research from across the world to consider how to improve one’e mental capital and mental well-being through life. Evidence suggests that a small improvement in your well-being will help you flourish as an individual. Here are the 5 ways to well-being and what I use in my life to get the best out of everyday to improve my well-being.

Looking After Your Well-being When Your Life Is Busy

Connect! Connect with people around you. With your family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, and take the time to meet new people. Think of these as cornerstones of your life and invest time in developing them. Building these connections will support and enrich your life every day.

Be Active! Go for a walk or a run. Step outside. Cycle. Play a game. Garden. Dance. Exercising makes you feel good about yourself. Most importantly discover a physical activity and enjoy and one that suits your level of mobility and fitness.

Take Notice! Be curious. Catch sight of the beautiful. Remark on the unusual. Notice the changing seasons. Savour the moment, whether you are walking to work, eating lunch or talking to friends. be aware of the world around you and what you are feeling. Reflecting on your experiences will help you appreciate what matters to you

Keep Learning! Try something new. Rediscover an old interest. Sign up for that course. Take a different responsibility that you have not done before. Fix a bike. Learn to play an instrument or how to cook your favourite food. Set a challenge you will enjoy achieving. Learning new things will make you more confident as well as being fun.

Give! Do something nice for a friend, or a stranger. Thank someone. Smile. Volunteer your time. Join a community group. Look out, as well as in. Seeing yourself, and your happiness linked to the wider community can be incredibly rewarding and creates connections with the people around you.

So: Connect…..Be Active…..Take Notice……Keep Learning…….Give…..