UWR 034 What to do when you are running a business and have one of those off days

In today’s episode, I’m speaking about what to do when you are running a business, and you have one of those off days. This episode is the audio from a Facebook live that I previously did, but the content is incredibly useful, so I wanted to share it with you here on the podcast. So let’s dive in. Running a business can be a lot of things. It can be incredibly exciting. It can be incredibly rewarding. It can be incredibly uplifting, but there can also be days where it’s really hard. There can be days where you can feel quite low. There can be days where you don’t feel like getting on camera. You don’t feel like being on Zoom calls with clients. You don’t feel like doing all those things that you’ve time blocked into your calendar. You just don’t want to do it. And there can be times where you actually feel even lower than just not wanting to do it. You can get to that point. There can be times where you actually get to the point where you’re like, doesn’t matter anyway. Why am I bothering? I can’t be bothered with this. You know, you can feel that sort of three out of 10 rather, than… hopefully you’re above a give usually, but you can get to that point where you’re feeling that kind of two, that three out of 10. I get where I just almost can’t be bothered to just put makeup on and be a functioning member of society, and be a human and have conversations, even, let’s face it, with my husband and my kids because I’m just like, “Oh, Oh.” Sometimes it’s just too hard. We can have those days in our business, but the thing is that it would be lovely to be able to just switch the world off, and not take the 10 calls that you might have scheduled in your diary or whatever that is for you. Whatever that looks like. For me, that’s kind of what my days look, my busy days look like. It would be lovely just to shut that all down and not pay attention to any of it. But actually often we can’t do that when we’re running our business, particularly if most of the stuff still falls on us to drive the business forward. We often cannot just go, “Okay, game over, don’t want to play anymore. I’m just going to take my toys and curl up in my bed.” We often can’t do that. So what can we do in order to raise up that kind of two or three out of 10 to a little bit higher so that we feel like we can function in our day? I think also it’s worth saying here too, that remember that life is 50/50 okay? 50% is great and 50% is a bit crappy. Okay. And it’s okay, that life is 50/50, because that is just how the world works. So it’s not a problem that you have those two and three out of 10 days. As long as you’re having some eight and seven and eight days, then is okay because it’s about 50/50. But like I say, those two and three out of 10 days, we often can’t just switch everything off when we’re running a business, we need a way to cope with those and a way to deal with those so that we can actually move our day forward, and have a productive day. And at least get something out of the day. It might not be what we originally planned when we planned out our calendar or did time blocking, or whatever it is that you do to organise your day, it might not be that. You might have to adjust the plan a bit, but so that you can still feel like you are moving forward even if that is just the tiniest, tiniest shuffle forward, rather than perhaps the big leap that you had planned for the day. So here is what I do when I am having those two out of 10, those three out of 10, crappy feeling days. The very first thing that I do is acknowledge how I’m feeling and accept that that’s where I am. I try not to. I say I don’t, I try not to judge myself for it. I try not to beat myself up about it, and make...