Blending Entrepreneurship With Lifelong 5 steps to make Health it easy www.jenniferpowter.com If you’re like most women I know, you’re busy. You have your work + deadlines, maybe you have kids and their activities, volunteer commitments and probably a million other things on the go. I often get asked, “Jen – how can I fit in fitness and be more healthy when I just don’t feel like I have any time for myself?” The hard truth is until you decide to make yourself and your health as important as everything else (or more so) it will always be the first thing to slip off your priority list. The real problem I see, is that high achieving and high capacity women are often running on empty because they’re treating their business (and sometimes other parts of their life) like a sprint, when in reality it’s a marathon. If you were to try to run a marathon by sprinting you’d burn out, hit the wall and literally be unable to keep going. The way you do this is by overcommitting, saying yes to a million things which ultimately leads to a massive collision of the expectations you have for yourself and what you can achieve and the reality of your life. How this looks or feels is:
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• All you ever do is work • At night when you are tired and want to relax you’re working • You feel guilty if you see your friends or if any waking, breathing moment is not being spent on your work • You constantly feel like you never have enough time therefore meal planning or exercising seems like a total indulgence as it takes way too much time.
HERE’S EXACTLY HOW YOU CAN CREATE THAT CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE: