How To Switch Off As An Entrepreneur
Updated: Mar 13, 2024
Written by: Brooke Summer Adams, Senior Level Executive Contributor
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Being an entrepreneur has many ups. It is incredibly rewarding to spend your time pursuing the vision that you hold and creating the life you dream of. However, it also has its down. When your life becomes all about creating this vision, paired up with the vision being incredibly important and meaningful to you ‒ it can become near impossible to switch off.
Brooke Summer Adams - an Internationally Accredited Transformation Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, International Speaker, Trainer and Writer and Yahoo Finances’ Top 10 Female Life Coach of 2021, is here today to share the top-tips she uses with her 1-2-1 clients to help them switch off as entrepreneurs.
1. Understand that sometimes, not being productive is the most productive thing you can do
More often than not the inability to switch off comes from the guilt we experience when doing so.
But here’s the thing, switching off is not something to feel guilty for…
The better you feel. The better you can do. Understand that as an entrepreneur, your energy is your money maker. It’s your energy that will build the business. If you’re a service provider (eg, coach, consultant, mentor) it’s literally your energy that you sell.
Being an entrepreneur and not protecting or managing your energy is the equivalent of opening up a shop and never restocking the shelves. It’s just not going to work.
You need to recharge in order to keep going. Success comes from consistent action. This requires sustainability. In order to sustain consistent action, you need consistent energy ‒ this is where switching off and resting comes in.
You cannot build your vision from a place of burnout. You may be managing right now, but you will not be able to sustain it. Not taking time to switch off will inevitably lead to you either quitting or your body forcing you to stop from exhaustion. Switching off isn’t a luxury ‒ it’s a priority. If you don’t take the time to regularly switch off, chances are you won’t be able to see it through. Therefore, switching off is an essential part of business maintenance ‒ not something to feel guilty for.
2. Schedule in time for switching off
Sometimes we run out of time to be able to properly take care of ourselves, rest and fully switch off.
Scheduling it in ahead of time prevents this from happening.
If you schedule in regular time to simply live life and switch off from business, you’ll make everything else fit around it ‒ and not the other way round.
Time management is your friend here. Get on top of what needs to be done and when and you’ll make space for resting without feeling like there’s other stuff you should be doing.
3. Remember why you started
Did you become an entrepreneur to work every hour of every day? Or did you do it to enjoy life on your terms, leave a legacy and make impact?
Remember why you started.
If time freedom was why you did this, align yourself with this intention by freeing up some time to take care of yourself. You have that choice.
When you align yourself with the kind of life you want to create, you move towards it faster. You may think that hustling is the fastest way to freedom, but it’s not ‒ freedom is.
4. Get a coach
Sometimes, our inability to switch off and rest comes from deep underlying beliefs rooted within childhood and past experience. In these instances, a coach will be able to help you re-write this narrative and begin to identify as someone who is capable of, and does, switch off regularly.
Brooke specifically works with first-time coaches on their journeys of becoming the coach they want to be and creating the vision they hold. You can connect with Brooke using any of the links below.
People can connect with me via Email, Facebook, Instagram, or my Website. Wherever you go, you’ll find helpful training and info on all things transformation. Read more from Brooke!
Brooke Summer Adams, Senior Level Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Brooke Summer Adams is internationally accredited in Transformational Coaching, certified to a master-level in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a graduate of Psychology with a 1st Class Honors Degree (BS.c), a Yahoo Finance Top 10 Female Life-Coach of 2021, a Brainz 500 Global Award Winner of 2021, a Workshop Facilitator at the worlds 1 Coaching Academy and an international Speaker, Trainer, and Writer.
After overcoming chronic stress, low self-esteem and body dysmorphia, Brooke was inspired to take to University to study Psychology, become an Internationally Accredited Transformation Coach and NLP Master Practitioner and set up her own online coaching business.
After several successful years in business transforming over 100 women into the best versions of themselves, being recognised as a Yahoo Finance Top 10 Female Life Coach and becoming an International Speaker and Trainer, Brooke then moved into the field of transforming first time coaches ‒ so they feel ready to transform others.
This experience, on top her qualifications, allows her to transform first time coaches into the version of them who has what it takes to create their vision, by helping them build unshakeable self belief and confidence, overcome fear and take aligned action.
