Developing a CEO Mindset
Do you take the time to fill your cup as a business owner?
This is something many entrepreneurs don’t always do, take the time to intentionally recharge and reset, but it’s SO important to put into practice.
Let’s take a step back for a minute.
When you’re first starting your business, you are likely a solopreneur. A lot of your time is probably spent figuring things out on your own, but you might not really enjoy a lot of these things.
Things like doing your own marketing, sales, lead generation, being your own accountant, etc. But, as you start to grow your business, that’s when it’s really important to look at what you can outsource. Think about what you don’t enjoy doing, or what you’re not good at doing and start by outsourcing those tasks first. This allows you to make sure you’re spending most of your time in your zone of genius. That might mean getting an accountant, outsourcing some things to a VA or an OBM, finding someone to manage and optimize your website, anything that helps you to be able to focus on what you’re good at and the things only you can do as a business owner. As your business grows that’s likely going to involve managing your team, better serving your clients, getting new clients, being on sales calls, these are the revenue generating activities you’re going to want to stay focused on. And they’re totally different skills than the ones you probably had to spend most of your time and focus on as a solopreneur.
That’s why you might find that your energy is getting drained faster, or it’s getting drained in a different way because you are now doing these things where you’re having to operate on a much higher level energetically. Managing a team might take more out of you, being on more sales calls might take more out of you. But that’s where you need to be in order to grow and successfully run your business. So that is why having the CEO mindset and treating your time, even the time that you're taking to intentionally recharge and reset, is so important.
If you don’t take the time to recharge and rest, you’re not going to be able to effectively run your business.
When this happens, then YOU become a bottleneck and you can end up holding back your business from continuing to grow. Having and developing that CEO mindset, protecting your energy, and intentionally recharging that energy becomes more important than ever. If you’re not taking the time to intentionally recharge, that means that you’re not going to be able to serve those additional things as well.
The result? You’re going to have more and more things draining you.
What happens when I don’t protect and recharge my energy is that I put off the things that I can procrastinate on, or maybe feel like I don’t necessarily have to do because I’m just feeling so energetically drained. I just keep going and going, trying to get through everything, and that’s when I start to go through a period of being in a lull and just not feeling it. Just not feeling supported by my own business. That’s an indication to me that I haven’t been taking enough time to intentionally recharge and reset.
You’re probably thinking what should I be doing to recharge? How often should I be having this recharge time and for how long? That’s something that’s different for everyone so think about what would work for you. For me, I love just relaxing and watching t.v., but that doesn’t really recharge me, it’s more like I am turning my brain off, so there’s not really space to be creative or to think about things. I wouldn’t really count that as a recharge, but more of to relax. But painting watercolors, learning something new, or taking an online course, THAT recharges me and makes me feel more energized.
Think about and experiment with different activities that make you feel recharged and schedule those things into your day or week. Doing those recharging activities and taking that time is going to help you to be a better business owner, and better serve your customers as your business grows.
An exercise I found that helps is to sit down and make a list of things that you enjoy doing, or that you think you might enjoy doing. Then work through that list and pay attention to how you feel after you’ve done those activities.
Do you just feel relaxed? Or do you feel recharged?
Prioritize those activities that make you feel recharged, this is SO important, especially as you’re growing a business because you have not only clients and customers taking your time, taking your attention, taking your energy, but you might have team members taking those things from you as well.
That’s why it gets so important to intentionally recharge your energy so that as you have more things and more people that you have to give that energy to, you can make sure that you're recharging so you're not always hanging on at 20% (you know, when that low battery warning flashes on your phone). Take that time to recharge to 100%.
Have you developed a CEO mindset? If you need support on this, let’s hop on a call so I can help you become the CEO you want to be.
