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In episode 27 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we are giving you practical tools to cultivate mindfulness as an online entrepreneur. Studies have shown that mindfulness can help you be more productive, help you better manage your business and give you a more positive outlook on life overall. The tools to practice mindfulness are simple but powerful. In this episode, we’ll give you practical tools that you can implement in your daily life right away to practise mindfulness.
But before we dive right in, let us introduce ourselves in case this is your first visit. Welcome to The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. We’re your hosts, Jen and Elke Clarke. We are a mother and daughter team that started Zazzle e-commerce businesses over 10 years ago and has sold over 15 million dollars-worth and counting of products on Zazzle.
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Today we’re sharing our top tips for cultivating mindfulness as an entrepreneur. For all our tips, listen to the ENTIRE episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast on your preferred streaming platform.
We all deal with a variety of stressors, distractions, and responsibilities throughout our day. It can often feel like our minds are always running, and this can make it difficult to focus and relax. Meditation can help you center and ground yourself. It doesn’t have to last very long to be effective. Even just pausing what you’re doing to take a few deep breaths to recenter can be helpful.
When you’re starting to practice meditation, don’t beat yourself up when you get distracted. This is a normal part of the process. We encourage you to start with short periods of time and then work up from there. Eventually, you will find that focusing and doing effective meditation becomes easier. A few minutes of meditation can have a profound effect on the rest of your day.
Journaling is an excellent way of clearing your mind, unburdening yourself from negative thoughts, and reflecting on what matters most to you. Don’t think your journaling has to be done a certain way. There are many ways to go about journaling. You can write down some affirmations or things that you are grateful for. Another way would be to do a “data dump.” If you’re struggling with something, just allow your thoughts to flow onto the page. This will help you get clarity around the issue you are dealing with.
You’ll be surprised at what you discover when you journal. We carry a lot of unconscious burdens. When we feel stressed and overwhelmed, it’s hard to gain clarity because of the “noise” of thoughts in our heads. But when you put those thoughts down on paper, it helps you take a step back and look at what’s going on. You’ll gain valuable perspective. Remember that you don’t have to solve every problem at once! If you take a few minutes each day to journal, you will gain insight bit by bit.
We think we are 100% present in the present moment but our subconscious is carrying many messages which distract us. Much of the time, we worry about something that’s going to happen in the future, or we’re caught up in thoughts about something in the past. Technology also takes away our attention from the present. Each ding on our phone pulls us away from the task at hand.
It’s important to remember that the present moment is all we have. We can’t control the future or the past. It takes conscious effort, but you can work to stay in the present moment. You don’t have to let distractions sabotage you.
Unfortunately, bad things will happen to us. That’s part of life. We can’t control that, but we can control how we respond. What you have the power to do is take a negative experience and resolve to learn from it going forward. This is not to negate or dismiss your experience, but it is a way not to let its negativity continue to affect you.
We encourage you to reframe negative thoughts and experiences. For example, if you’re stuck thinking something like, “It’s such a cold, dreadful day outside. I hate this weather so much,” try to reframe it in a positive light. You can say to yourself, “I’m thankful that the sun is shining even though it’s cold. I’m grateful to hear the birds singing and that I have a nice view of the outdoors.” That’s a very simple example, but it shows you how you might begin to reframe your thoughts. When you focus on the positive, you’ll be in a more positive state of mind.
Practicing mindfulness daily will help you stay happy and healthy. This is important for you as an entrepreneur because YOU are your business’ biggest asset. If you are chronically stressed and distracted, your business will suffer and not reach its full potential. If you have regular practices that help you center and ground yourself every day, you will be able to show up for your business in a powerful and effective way!
The tips we share here are just a sample of what’s possible for you to continuously practise mindfulness. We dive deep into these and other mindfulness tools and practises in our Creative CEO Mastermind™. We’ve seen our mastermind participants go through complete transformations because we helped them implement the practice of mindfulness into their daily lives and business practises. This has resulted in our mastermind participants going from zero sales to millions of dollars in Zazzle sales in addition to being happier and more aligned with their flow.
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Jen and Elke Clarke are a mother-daughter duo that empowers women entrepreneurs to make money online. Through courses and coaching, Jen and Elke help women (and men) become successful creative entrepreneurs on Zazzle and e-commerce. Combined Jen and Elke have sold over 15 million dollars-worth of products, and earned over $1.5 million combined through their businesses on Zazzle. Jen and Elke have influenced and transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with their free content, paid and private coaching.
They are international, award-winning authors. Click the links to purchase their books through Amazon: Earn Around The World and Create Online and Grow Rich.
Jen and Elke Clarke have been featured in Yahoo Finance as TOP 5 e-commerce coaches.
