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Happy Friday! Anyone have fun plans this weekend? I think I'm working tomorrow, but taking Sunday off. Nobody email me. Just kidding - you can email me this weekend, but I'm not responding until Monday. So, you have been warned.
Yesterday, I told you about Tiffany's new Total Self-Care PLR Package, along with my bonuses. What I didn't know is that my site's server was going to go down minutes after I sent the email.
That was.. convenient. But it was only down for about an hour, and everything seems to be working fine now.
To recap, here is the link to her special, and a summary of my bonuses:
My Bonuses:
1. Buy the main Self-Care offer, and get the Autumn Anxiety bundle for free.
2. Buy the first one-time offer, and get a bundle of 10 self-care and self help products from my store for free ($200+ value)
3. Buy the second one-time offer (Tiff's lifetime membership) and get access to my lifetime membership for free.
All the bonuses are attached to the products in WarriorPlus. But let me know if you can't find them!
My Self-Care Routine as Someone Who Works Too Damn Much
Okay, let's talk about self-care as entrepreneurs, and why so many of us struggle with it. I really think it all comes down to freelancer guilt. We work for ourselves and most of us work from home, so we think we always need to be working. If you're home, your computer is there, so why aren't you working?! That's my jerk of a brain on the daily.
That mentality is also what has caused a lot of unnecessary stress in my life.
The more I become aware of my anxiety and stress triggers, the more I realize how downtime and self-care is essential. I am not going to bore you with the constantly growing list of daily self-care activities, but here are some that are related to my life as an entrepreneur.
Scheduled Time Off - I think this is one of the best things you can do for yourself, and also one of the most difficult. I have been an entrepreneur/freelancer for about 10 years, and I remember the first several years, NEVER taking time off. And I mean never. Weekends, birthdays, Christmas, I worked it all.
had it in my head that the harder I worked, the more successful I would be. And while in general that is true, burnout is NOT going to help you. Human beings need rest and time off.
I not only have "work hours" where I force myself to stop working at a certain point, but I plan entire days where I am able to take time off. It is usually on the weekend, but I am also prone to a random Day Off Wednesday.
Unplugging - For entrepreneurs like me who work from home, you feel like your entire home is your office. This makes it really hard to not work when a computer is in front of you. Our entire work life is on a computer, we answer emails from our phones, we take our work with us no matter where we are and what we are doing. At least I know I do.
You know what this leads to? Stress. And burnout. And more stress. So, during the times when I am practicing self-care, taking time off from work, or just trying to spend time with other people, I completely unplug. No laptop and no phone.
Using a Digital Clock - Speaking of unplugging, this is seriously the best decision I have made for myself in a long time. I have always been someone who wakes up multiple times a night. I never sleep more than 2-3 hours at a time before having to find a new sleeping position. The problem is that I would check my phone every time. I convinced myself it was just to see what time it was, but really I always looked at my notifications.
MANY times while doing this, I would have some work email that stressed me out and completely woke me up, so I would be opening my laptop at 2am to solve some random problem, or laying there for hours just stressing over whatever notification I got.
Finally, I decided to keep my phone shut off and nowhere near my bed when I go to sleep. Instead, I got a digital alarm clock for my bedside table. Now, when I wake up in the middle of the night, I can quickly see the time, then roll over and not worry about notifications that could definitely wait until morning.
Writing for Fun, Not Work - Like many PLR providers, I started writing for fun. I was one of those dorky kids who had stacks of diaries, journals, poems, short stories, and novel ideas in my bedroom. If I wasn't drawing, I was writing.
I am very fortunate that I am able to do what I love for a living, I realize that. But writing for work is nowhere near the same thing as writing for fun. So, I give myself time at least a few days a week to sit down and write a short story or outline some novel I will probably never finish. I make sure it is not at all tied to making money or using it for my business - it has to be detached from my life as an entrepreneur.
Otherwise, it's not self-care, it's just a side hustle.
Okay that's all I have for you today. Go take a nap or play with your kids (or dogs), find a hobby, or read a book. Do something that has nothing to do with your job, and your overwhelmed brain will thank you.
P.S. Wouldn't it be funny if my site stopped working again, after sending this email? It wouldn't be funny at all.
