189. How to Run Your Business When Life Happens

What do we do as business owners when personal life gets challenging? From CEO fatigue and burnout, helping aging parents, diagnoses, and relationship challenges you didn't see coming to people struggling to get off the couch… how do you get through those moments? If you have started a business at this time on the planet, you're probably pretty sensitive. You're sensitive to the needs of others. You understand there are problems this world needs to solve. You are out to help solve them in your own way, using your talents, experience, and expertise.  If you're doing that, and you're giving and giving and giving, and you get hit with personal life things… what do you do?  No one can do this life thing on their own. We were talking about this in the Abundance Academy. I love this analogy: it's like trying to shove a beach ball underwater. Can't do that. It just smacks you in the face, try to push it down, and it'll hit you in the face again. When you're trying to run your business and get hit with a powerful human emotion, the most powerful thing you can do with the emotion is acknowledge that it's there. Feelings are cyclical. We don't get mad if we have to pee more than once a day, but we get upset if we're sad more than once a day. We need to recognize we don't have to be afraid of our feelings. We can be with them; the more we're with them, the faster they can move. If you try to not pee, it gets painful. Just deal with the fact that you're sad, deal with the fact that you're angry. Express it in a way that is positive and can move things forward. This might look like, "I've got something going on. I'm going to be handling it. It's really challenging me. I'm going to need extra support from you and the business." That is a five-second conversation, and it can change your life. When we show that level of vulnerability, we give everyone in our orbit permission to do the same, and then they're not slamming doors. Now let's talk about you. We've dealt with the tactical stuff. Emotions were acknowledged. You've turned to the team. You've got support. And then there's the creative, incredible part of you that might get stuck when personal issues happen. If your creativity gets shut down for a hot second, it's okay; it will come back.  What I would love for you to do -- and I promise this takes 10 minutes -- I would love for you to remember one thing that brings you joy. It can be your favorite cup of coffee or eating a piece of that dark chocolate you keep hidden. It could be a song that makes you so happy. Do something that brings you that level of joy for 10 minutes. You can honor your humanity, love yourself through this, find the support you need, and share with your team. Then, very gently and with much love and joy, move forward on the projects that need your attention. Let's remove the hustle, connect back to your heart, and remember that you are human on this journey and deserve all the love and support you need.   Other Game On Girlfriend podcast episodes you might want to check out:  Healing the Hustle (You Don’t Have to Keep Up): https://sarahwalton.com/jessica-butts/  How ‘The Walking Dead’ Saved My Business (No Really!): https://sarahwalton.com/walking-dead/  How to Coach Yourself Through Hard Times: https://sarahwalton.com/coach-yourself/  Why Your Emotions Are the Key to Your Success: https://sarahwalton.com/emotions-success/  You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton   Thank you so much for listening. I'm so honored that you're here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking "Write a review." Then we'll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.)    #LifeHappens #SurviveTheBreakingPoint #MentalHealth #WorkplaceWellness #YouAreNotAlone #StressManagement #WorkplaceWellBeing #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #EntrepreneurLifestyle #WomenInBusiness