TN50#164_7 Blind Spots for Entrepreneurs AND Anyone Wanting to Improve Their Health and Wellness_14 May_2024

Hi Team,

As I prepare to launch The Better Basics Group Coaching Program (a personal performance focused group coaching opportunity for busy adults), I am consuming a lot of content from a guy named James Wedmore. He has a company called Business By Design and a podcast called, The MIND Your Business Podcast.  His paid course isn’t available for another month or so; in the meantime, I’m listening to his old podcasts, and I’m often floored by the similarities between Stuck Entrepreneurs who want to take their business to the next level and Stuck Adults who want to take their health and wellness to the next level. Currently, I align more with the Stuck Entrepreneur, which bucket are you more aligned with?

Happy Tuesday and welcome to The Next 50 #164. I like to think of personal performance in 3 components: physical, mental and emotional. My frameworks focus on 4 Buckets: Eat, Sleep, Move and Think. This blog is my sandbox for sharing information that you might find useful for your personal performance.

Today I want to share the 7 Blind Spot that are actually traps to improving your business, and I’ll make the case these can be the same traps to improving your health and wellness. This list is from Wedmore’s podcast, The 7 Most Common Business Blindspots and How To Overcome Them, from 20 November 2023.

Now before you get too focused on this list coming from a online business expert remember we are actually looking at the parallels to improving health and wellness (H&W). And finally, remember, where you place your attention is your choice.

  1. “I’m not ready.”

“I want to loss 20 lbs. of fat and gain 10 lbs. of muscle but I’m not ready because of these things: x, y, z…” You can start doing this right now, today by focusing on eating more protein and less carbs/fat/alcohol (the energy macros), by doing some pushups and air squats and by prioritizing better sleep. Look at you! You’re ready and you’re on your way!

  1. “I’m overwhelmed.”

Are you overwhelmed by all the options you can find to improve your H&W? Let’s face it there are hundreds of thousands of options. Who should you talk to? Do you start with a coach at the gym, a nutritionist, your doctor or your therapist? I say start with yourself, reread the bold portion of the 1st bullet.

  1. Timing

“Well, I really want to improve my H&W but now isn’t the right time.” There will never be a better time than right now to start working on your H&W even if it starts with only 10 minutes a day focused on better meal planning and movement opportunities.

  1. Busyness

I am guilty of being “busy” and I don’t mean anything good in admitting that. I’m working very hard on my busyness issues which aren’t related to H&W. If you have time for social media and tv, you aren’t too busy to improve your H&W.

  1. Perfection

Perfection is the enemy of done; or in this case starting to take better care of yourself. Your plan for self-improvement will never be perfect, start with things that are too easy to fail at. This is how we begin building better habits.

  1. Indecision

How long are you going to take to decide to eat a little less and better, sleep a little longer and better and move a little more and better? As long as you can’t decide you can’t move forward, and if you aren’t moving forward, you’re moving backward.

  1. Importance (as in, focusing on the unimportant)

Change the level of importance you put on things that aren’t important. You don’t need to spend the next 3 months planning your new diet and workout plan. Stop making a mountain out of a mole hill and get started! Forgot where to start? You can start doing this right now, today by focusing on eating more protein, and less carbs/fat/alcohol (the energy macros), by doing some pushups and air squats and by prioritizing better sleep. Look at you! You’re ready and you’re on your way!

There’s a lot more to the podcast than this hijacked list so if you want to listen to a business focused podcast that could easily be applied to the blind-spots you are challenged with regarding your H&W here’s the link.

Who do you know that could use this information? I bet you can think of a couple of folks before you click the next email, so please share the post with your team and anyone who might find it useful and let me know what you think!

Have a good one,

Alex

PS. Questions on your personal performance? Let me know at: alex@fpp.llc

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