Tweak Your Week: Smell a Rose
Tips, tricks and tweaks to help founders each week. Commit to trying one tweak each day for a week. Be your own guinea pig. You’ll be surprised what a difference these tiny experiments can make.
Startup life can feel relentless, if you let it. You’re never done so you never stop. Except that there are always moments you can pause and appreciate - milestones, releases, bite-sized morsels of progress, a blade of grass between your toes.
Good morning Upsiders!
Racing through life and dealing with the million fires we need to put out often means we forget to take a moment to appreciate how much beauty and positivity is around us.
This week’s tweak is all about stopping and recognising one wonderful thing in your life each day. Gratitude is the simplest way for founders to practise a little self-compassion.
It can be something huge or something tiny, but make a daily point this week of stopping for a generous few seconds and taking a deep, expansive breath in as you consciously recognise something that is great in your life. A tree, a friend, a spark of imagination, a song, a smile, a little job very well done - you get the idea.
As you breathe out, do so with a sense of gratitude for that one lovely thing, it will lift your spirits and give you an instant surge of energy.
Notice a difference?
Tell us how you go. Share your experiences - ‘mazing or meh - with the Upside community.
We’re all a work in progress.
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