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Entrepreneurs Immediate Anxiety Cheat Sheet – “I am feeling deeply overwhelmed, a headache is knocking, and I am getting flushes of anxiety. I know I should do the following below but I try to reason that I have important things to get done…”
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[My] 7 Top Articles Helpful to Entrepreneurs in Admitting and Dealing With Anxiety and Depression – From all levels of start-up to big success in entrepreneurship, there exists a dark cloud often not talked about. It is anxiety and depression.
At worst, I’ve read stories of very successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs committing suicide.
Entrepreneurship can be gruesome. Read more
Are you scared of the implications of the corona virus on your financial wellbeing?
I am shit scared too. But panic does not help. I thought I share some old basic steps that have been relevant in many cases before.
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You want the entrepreneurs in your organisation to succeed. You go out of your way to provide resources and people to help them.
I encourage you to purchase any or all of my four books for them.
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Where to Get Help for Anxiety – Since publishing ‘The Anxious Entrepreneur’, I’ve been making interesting contacts with people.
I am not a professional anxiety, depression and suicide expert.
If you believe you suffer from anxiety, depression and are having suicidal thoughts, I humbly request that you get help from a trained professional. These are serious conditions you need to attend urgently.
So below follows places to find such help:
The organisations below have support groups and/or programmes in various parts of the country. Find out if they do not have support closer to your area.
LifeLine Southern Africa
This is a 24 hour emotional crisis intervention service. It’s free and confidential.
In each country, there are organisations and support groups that assist people experiencing these conditions. Search and approach them for help. And the prominent ones are mostly free.
If you are in a crisis, I suggest you contact a depression, suicide or emergency helpline in your country.
In any case, here are some online resources you can use (some are free, some are free for the first session and others charge throughout):
Free, anonymous and confidential online text chat with trained listeners, online therapists & counsellors.
Website https://www.7cups.com
Assists with depression, sadness and burned out.
Website www.counselo.com
Helps people find great mental health resources like therapists, support groups, wellness tools, as well as an overall sense of community.
Offers a combination of a professional therapist directory as well as self-help wellness resources – all free of charge to the community in need.
Website www.therapytribe.com
Convenient, affordable, private online counselling – anytime and anywhere.
Website www.betterhelp.com
I have always been entrepreneurial. On two separate occasions as a kid I had vegetable gardens. On each, my grandmother, and later her daughter (my mother), gave away almost all my produce and thus succeeded in liquidating my intended businesses. I guess my mother got it from her mother – my grandmother gave it to her daughter.
Among the other things I aspired to be was Jean Claude Van Damme. I didn’t want to be Chuck Norris because he had bushy chest hair. I am 30 today, with medium chest hair. It is even turning white.
How my story should be is: he grew up poor, went to university; he then ventured into business, struggled for a bit of time and then became very successful. “He Read more
I was a guest on the Creative Warriors Podcast hosted by American entrepreneur and business coach, Jeffrey Shaw.
We had an engaging chat about defeating ‘entrepreneur anxiety’ and the book – ‘The Anxious Entrepreneur.’
Do check out and download the episode here http://ow.ly/whdd307Tc1U. It is episode 255.
Hello.
I got interviewed on the Baby Got Booked Podcast, hosted by Canadian entrepreneur and PR expert – Geeta Nadkarni.
I had much fun talking about themes for reducing anxiety in one’s entrepreneurship hustle, and my book – The Anxious Entrepreneur. Geeta is just awesome.
Click here to download the podcast.
N.B. It was before the book came out.
This post inspired my compilation book, ‘Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety.’ It’s on Amazon. Order here if in South Africa – or visit your nearest bookstore.
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This is an extract from my latest and fourth book, The Anxious Entrepreneur. This piece of content is related to 14 Stoicism Quotes that Help Heal Anxiety.
Entrepreneurship is a nerve wracking business. Entrepreneurs are always anxious about multiple things. They have goals and therefore expectations, but it is known that things cannot go according to one’s wishes, plans, desires, needs or desperation all the time.
Expectations are rarely met and subconsciously, when they aren’t, we are shaken. It is an opportune window for anxiety or even depression to set in, depending on the severity or extent of the misfortune. Read more
This is an extract from my latest and fourth book, The Anxious Entrepreneur. Here are 10 Quotes to Help You Deal with Worry and Anxiety or Quotes For Anxiety.
The following are some of my favourite quotes which, I believe, more or less speak to that anxiety defeats creativity and also that creativity can defeat anxiety.
To have peace today, you have to do the things that have meaning to you and help you to fulfil a part of you.
If your passion is to sing, but you work at a call centre, sing in the morning or after work – everyday or any number of days in the week.
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It was at about 3:35 pm. I felt I was about to faint or have a panic attack. The day was not going well. Over and above, I was overly tired. Read more
No, it wasn’t The Joker. Read more