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Some entrepreneurs and solo preneurs are successful in business not knowing what is your gift and consequently unhappy with themselves. This experience can cost you a bundle emotionally and financially.

Cecil: I think being the business is an extremely bad thing. If you own your own business, you work in a business or have a business that deserves your attention, the challenge here is if you become the business, then all you’re doing is you are working and making money.

What needs to happen is the business needs to run itself whether you are an entrepreneur, you own the business, or anything you do in the context of the business.

It is really important that you understand this because from a health perspective, you cannot go 24/7.

Let’s assume you get called away from your business. Do you have structures in place to look after the business? This is where the business can actually fold because you are all there is to it.

I believe all of us have all been born with a special gift. The really important business we should be in is the business of finding out what is unique about us, what we are good at. When we find out what we’re good at, we should focus on that.

There are a lot of things we don’t particularly want to do. For me, I don’t like to do bank reconciliation. I just don’t want to do it. I know it’s important, but I don’t want to do it. I hire someone to do it.

You need to take a break for yourself.

The whole business that we should be in is the business of finding out what is unique about us, our products and our services. Find out what that is and focus on it.

Whatever other services you need, you can bring the experts in.

That way, you have a stronger foundation. You are providing the uniqueness of your business to your clients and you’re hiring the other people to support you.

Then you have a phenomenal business, which you can take off and leave whenever you choose to.

The whole concept here is that stress causes you to be the business.

No. You don’t need to be the business.

Now that you understand that knowing what is your gift is one of the secret to health and happiness there is not only hope but a define course of action you can take to start to move beyond any question or concerns once and for all. Just imagine how much more energy, clarity and fun you can have in life.

Now I would suggest you get started by taking action and following the suggestions I outlined in heart of the article.

We appreciate you feedback. Comment below and tell what you think. Peace

Cecil McIntosh, guides solo-preneurs and entrepreneurs worldwide to learn to relax, stress less and overcome chronic symptoms so that you can quickly experience profound peace, power and work life balance. Get a jump start on your own relax and stress less system with 21 no-brainer shortcut to achieving health and happiness at http://eycfreebook.com  You can reach Cecil at http://www.cecilhelpdesk.com

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In my over 14 years of facilitating entrepreneurs and solopreneurs I am amazed at how many of them spend time helping others hoping somehow that they would find inner peace and happiness.

Wayne: Stress causes you to hate yourself.

Cecil: It does. I can use myself as an example. I am originally from Barbados. When I was much younger, my mom told me not to go outside and play. I decided to play in the house.

We were playing in the house and I was holding on to the rafters in the house. I fell and hit my lip on the bottom of the bed and it split my lip. I had to go to the hospital five days that week and they looked after me.

I had this whole myth that my lips were large. I had these big lips. My lips weren’t large. I just had this whole concept because of the experience I had. I went through life with this concept that my lips were large.

I was in sales and I was in the public. I was doing all these things and I had this idea in the back of my head that my lips were large. I didn’t hate myself, I hated my lips, but I blamed myself.

That created havoc in my life.

What’s fascinating is if you think about it, there is a whole industry that does facials. They do all kinds of body enhancements.

Let me go back to the situation with my lips. Where I solved mine was, at some point in time, I had a girlfriend who kissed my lips.

When she kissed my lips, I realized that my lips were beautiful. That’s how I learned my lesson. That was important for me.

Simply follow the story above to determine how you can feel like yourself without hating yourself. Now here’s my challenge to you: Think of three ways in which you can feel like yourself naturally?

Cecil McIntosh, guides solo-preneurs and entrepreneurs worldwide to learn to relax, stress less and overcome chronic symptoms so that you can quickly experience profound peace, power and work life balance. You can get the other 20 Tips of 21 no-brainer shortcuts to achieving health and happiness at http://eycfreebook.com You can reach Cecil at http://www.cecilhelpdesk.com

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If you are an entrepreneur, solopreneur or a baby boomer who do not know how to slow down, one of the questions that can drive you crazy is:

Cecil: When we’re stressed out, we may blame the stress for lack of exercising. But the reality is that we need to have a purpose in life.You need to decide what you want. This is the challenge that most of us have. It doesn’t matter where you are in life. You need to know what you want. The most important thing is to accept yourself at the moment where you are.

Let’s assume you’re overweight, for example. You need to accept that. The challenge is to accept that you’re overweight. “Stress causes you to avoid exercising,” is not really the issue here.

The issue is that you haven’t accepted where you are. You have to accept, “This is where I am right now.”

Let’s assume you are going on a holiday. You phone the travel agency and say, “I want to go on holiday.” The travel agent says, “Fine. Where do you want to go?”

Let’s say you want to go to Barbados. The travel agent needs to know where you are at the moment in order to book the flight. They can’t get you there if they don’t know where you are starting from.

It’s the same thing with avoiding exercise. You need to know where you are right now. If you’re overweight, you’re overweight.

So what?

Knowing where you are makes it easy for you to take the steps that are necessary to do what you want to do.

If you go into denial and decide, “I am not overweight. There’s nothing wrong with me,” that is where the problem is. Nobody can help you because you decided there is nothing wrong with you.

So take a deep breath. This is very important: Exercising or not, is not the solution to your purpose in life. Stress does not stop you from exercising. If having a purpose in life is not easy and productive why do it at all? Simply follow the step outlined above and you will soon discover that you are on your way to applying purpose of life to your daily schedule.

Cecil McIntosh, guides solo-preneurs and entrepreneurs worldwide to learn to relax, stress less and go with the flow so that you can quickly experience profound peace, power and work life balance. You can get the other 20 Tips of 21 no-brainer shortcuts to achieving health and happiness at http://eycfreebook.com You can reach Cecil at http://www.cecilhelpdesk.com

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