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Happy Sunday, everyone, it's Remi here from the online business temple and the online business Temple is a platform for coaches and course creators who are looking to double their income whilst working less in their business. We teach you how to automate create systems and processes that mean, you spend a lot less time at your desk. And today, I'm here to talk about how I manage my stress as an entrepreneur.

And again, share some tips with you that might be helpful, and may give you some ideas about changing up some things in your world.

1. So the first thing I did to help me manage my stress as a solopreneur, as an entrepreneur, was I reduced my working hours, this was the first thing I did, and I stuck to it. Now admittedly, I had a bit of a health scare in August, which kind of forced me to, to slow down my hours. However, in slowing down, I actually changed my whole business model, I automated a lot of the processes in my business, and created offers that could run without me having to manage them, which meant I only show up at a few hours a week for vital things. And I've massively reduced my working hours. And I've stuck to it.

2. The second thing I did is I got better at delegating. I mean, if I can share anything with you today is delegate delegate and delegate some more.
As small business owners, we feel quite precious about our business. And we often don't want to hand things over. And sometimes we don't trust that other people are going to be able to do things as well as us, for me learning to delegate and to handover and to trust in other people. Also backing that up a little bit, making sure I'm hiring the right people so that they can do their job, right. Sometimes I found people can do things better than I thought I could do them, right. So I learned to delegate handed over a lot more work which reduce the stress and took that worry off of my plate.

3. The third thing was I learned to say, Say NO, more. How many of you out there say yes, a lot. And then kick yourself because you've taken on work that you don't enjoy or unnecessary things that are harder than they thought You thought they were going to be? Or you regret that you just didn't say no. So I now step into my nose zone. And I say no more often, because that protects my space and my energy and reduces my stress. And that was a hard one actually. Because I was always a people pleaser always wanting to say yes. And so learning to say no more to things that were encroaching onto my time and my space and my energy was a real struggle for me, but it's worked beautifully in reducing my stress.

What are some of the other things I did to reduce my stress as a solopreneur....

4. I walk more, got a little puppy so that helps.

5. I stand in the sunshine more I get up from my desk and I just go and stand in the sunshine. Get all that vitamins into your skin which is lovely.

6. And I drink more water I drink more fresh ginger tea. I love making fresh ginger tea.

7. And the final thing and one thing that puts the biggest smile on my face is I actually play Animal Crossing which is a Nintendo Switch game every day.
My daughter's laughing in the background. But it's very true. I play this because it reduces my stress. I want to be, you know, might be knocking back a coconut living my best life and that helps to reduce my stress. So share with me some of the ways that you are managing your stress in your business. I'd love to hear and I hope my little tips did they have been helpful and I will see you again soon. Meantime, there's a link above for my website. Go check it out. Lots of love. Take care

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