Ep 40: How to get your motivation back if you’ve fallen out of love with your business?

Inspiring Women in Business

Feeling sad and unmotivated about your business is a real thing. The many toxic positivities out there do not help business owners normalise the ups and downs of having a business. What we need to do is to accept these feelings, face them, and plan our next step.

In this episode, Ruth Gilbey shares 5 practical steps to help you reflect and get your motivation back if you’ve fallen out of love with your business.

Listen and Enjoy!

Key takeaways from this episode:

5 Practical Steps to Do if You’re Feeling Unmotivated:

1. Don’t make rash decisions based on temporary emotions but equally, don’t stay stuck. Make sure there's nothing else going on, like literally being tired! Overwhelming and burnout is s the real thing.
2. Take a break or get a change of scenery and have a good night’s sleep. Take some time out and revisit the problem. This works for all issues, not just falling out of love with your business!
3. Get curious. Dig deeper into why you might have fallen out of love with what you’re doing.
4. Give yourself permission to change your mind or evolve your business. Know that it's ok to change what you're doing but do it on your terms and your time frame.
5. Find the right person to talk things through. This isn't always a family member but someone who will understand you and what you’re doing.

Episode Timeline:

00:00 Podcast Intro

01:08 Episode Intro

01:50 Toxic positivity in the world of business

02:17 Not loving every single thing about your business

03:36 Temporary emotions

04:57 Flexing your time to make it work for you and your energy

04:57 Taking a break

05:35 Getting curious

06:06 Giving yourself permission to change your mind

06:53 Finding the right person to talk to

08:22 Episode recap

09:50 Outro

More about Ruth:

Hi, I’m Ruth, a business coach specializing in helping freelancers and business owners adjust their mindset and their marketing so they can get fully booked with clients they LOVE to work with. I’ve helped hundreds of self-employed women achieve the time and money freedom they craved.

I’ve started this podcast because when I first went all in and left the corporate world to be a freelancer, I was grateful for any work that came my way. After over 20 years of freelancing and working for other people, I started to realize I’d created a glass ceiling for myself.

In 2017, I finally started listening to that voice that had been telling me for a long time that I wasn’t doing what I loved and fulfilling my true potential. It took a critical illness to give me that wake-up call. I don’t want the same to happen to you.

You can expect practical advice, inspiring stories, and a lot of aha moments as we uncover and kick to the curb all the obstacles you have been putting in your way.

I’m on a mission to inspire women to start and play bigger in business.

Connect and know more about Ruth Gilbey here:

Coaching: https://www.ruthgilbey.com/coaching

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