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MENTAL HEALTH
Wellbeing boost Running a small firm in the current climate is a stressful business, so staying on top of your own mental health is essential. Karen Warren outlines a few tips to help you cope HE BUSINESS WORLD is not where many of us, as FSB members, want it to be. It can be low, cumbersome and frustrating in some instances, and hectic, all-consuming and relentless in others. Thank goodness we can wake up when we want to, take long lunches and finish early! But that’s not the reality of running your own business, is it? It’s harder work than the corporate world but it’s all yours, which can be fabulous and exhausting in equal measure at times. The independence to make decisions can feel lonely,
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KAREN WARREN is a personal development specialist, owner of KW Inner Strength and author of Workforce Wellbeing – How to Build Organisational Strength and Resilience
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and the responsibility of leadership can weigh heavy. Can you honestly say you’re looking after yourself in your own business, now that you don’t have a health and safety officer and a human resources team to turn to for help, or a line manager who could sometimes be a bit useful and lend a sympathetic ear? The following tips will help you to look after yourself, and ensure you’re in the best possible shape – physically and mentally – for the challenges that inevitably lie ahead.
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