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Everyone wants to be healthy and for entrepreneurs, it can make a significant impact on success.
I admire Richard Branson’s spirit and his writing in general, but when I came across his piece today on The Healthy Entrepreneur, it really resonated with me. Of course, it is not the case that only entrepreneurs need to be healthy – everyone wants and needs to be healthy, whether one is a homemaker, a cubicle-dweller or a business owner. But, as an entrepreneur who has been down with a severe cold and feverishness for the last 2 weeks, (not to mention 3 such bouts in the last 6 months), Richard Branson’s words held special meaning for me. The thing about being the founder of a small business is that there are so few resources at hand – at the moment, we are a 2-member core team, and any illness leaves us seriously understaffed.
The curious bit about ill-health is that although we think of it largely as concerning the body, it has such an intimate relationship with our minds – both in where it stems from, and what it leads to. Even where ill-health has direct, specific physical causes, there is still much that we don’t know about how our mental state affects the body. In terms of its results, anyone who’s woken up feeling sick yet forced by a looming deadline to head to work, will attest to the impact it has on the quality as well as quantity of work that we do.
In my own case, as an entrepreneur struggling to build an online community here – I know that the exact same questions, on how to grow this magazine and ensure its viability, bring forth very different answers when I am well and when I am unwell. When I am unwell, everything looks like an uphill task and the outcome looks dodgy. This week, I’ve been feeling revitalized, and things look so positive. Our readership is growing, many of the tech issues we’ve had have been resolved, we’re starting a lovely new travel series that is coming together beautifully (look out for it!), we have wonderful people supporting us in so many ways and I’m getting all these ideas on monetizing the business. Surely, things weren’t very different last week, and yet, all I could feel was that 18 months post launch, I haven’t progressed as well as I wanted to. Like they say, it’s how you look at it.
Of course, not all of us have personal coaches like Branson does, and not even perhaps, the enthusiasm for fitness that he has. I am certainly happier being a couch potato than exercising in any form. Yet, there is no denying that fitness can have a significant impact on the enthusiasm I bring to my business – and the quality of my work. We do hear about health and fitness all the time, but Branson’s piece has come as a wake-up call for me, that health can make a big difference to how a venture shapes up – or not.
Apart from that, the one other thing I’ve learnt is not to take depression seriously, when one is unwell. Yes, everything looks gloomy when you’re ill, but if there is one thing past experience has shown me – it is that, “this too shall pass”.
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Before expecting the daughter in law to love, respect and accept the new family, it is only fair that the family demonstrates all of these first.
If you are a married Indian woman, one of the first words you hear from your in laws is that you are now a daughter of the house. How true is that statement though? Are daughters in law really treated as daughters or is this only lip service?
A friend recently confided how hurt she felt when she wanted to visit her in-laws along with her husband but was told not to, because the in-laws wanted time alone with their son. Naturally, she was taken aback since she had always been fed this trope – that she was the daughter, not the daughter in law. Why then this sudden keeping at arm’s distance? Would a son in law ever be told not to accompany his wife on her visit to her parents because they wanted quality time with their daughter? That is unimaginable in a patriarchal society.
It is ok to want time alone with the married offspring but how does that meld into the Indian family system, where independent choices are less important than the whole family coming together?
My husband returns home tired after working & travelling. I, like other working women, return home refreshed after enjoying full day at office!
I am a working woman and mother of a 2 year old daughter. People say I am irresponsible and lazy because I have a house-help.
Yes, I’m irresponsible and don’t have any work. Except checking what groceries needs to be refilled and ordering them for home delivery, washing my and my husband’s clothes, drying and folding them, getting the work-wear clothes ironed, keeping clothes in place, cleaning bathrooms and toilets, changing bedsheets, dusting windows occasionally, hand washing my daughter’s soiled clothes in hot water, bathing my daughter twice, feeding my daughter breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Rest other work like cooking and house cleaning done by the house-help and my husband takes care of getting fruits and vegetables from the market every week. So I don’t have any work except those few mentioned earlier.
Day in the Life of an Entrepreneur: Rashi Goel, founder of The Bright Side, a brand that designs and manufactures cool car signs, shares her day.
In this edition of Day in the Life of an Entrepreneur, Rashi Goel, the founder of The Bright Side, a brand that designs and manufactures cool car signs, shares her day with us.
Mine is not a story of passion and grit to start with. Yes, those did come later but not when I started my business. I consider myself one of those extremely lucky people because my business just happened to me. No, not served on a silver platter, but almost by default.
After five years of working in advertising in Mumbai and Bangalore, in August 2011, I decided to make the move back to Pune. I had no clue what I was going to do there but it had been home all my life so I was sure I’d figure something out. Not long (read two weeks) into this sabbatical, during a casual chat with my cousin, an idea sprung to life, an idea called The Bright Side. And life would never be the same.
Did you ever dream of being an entrepreneur? That task may have been a little difficult for you as a woman. But fret not, here are three steps to help you taste success!
Almost every woman dreams of it. Of being able to balance it all and fulfil her purpose. And with the waves of women empowerment reaching its peak in the last couple of years, women’s desires of creating an impact on the world are just getting stronger.
It’s no longer just about celebrating women on Women’s Day. In fact, it is celebration women all 365 days! And yet most struggle with even the basic to-do list- waking up on time, sticking to a proper fitness regime, having a good nutritional plan, finishing errands. They also struggle with taking care of children (if they have them), being there for family and friends and the list goes on.