Most of you reading this post are successful business/practice owners. You’ve long known that long hours, unpredictability, high stress and marital strain are part of the entrepreneurial lifestyle. And while that may sound like a recipe for poor health, you might be surprised to learn that entrepreneurs WAY FEWER sick days than their corporate paycheck cashing neighbors. How can that be?
According to the entrepreneurs
have what workologists call “active jobs” and may benefit from positive health
consequences. The research compared entrepreneurs' health with employees'
health in a national representative sample studying mental disorders, blood
pressure, well-being (life-satisfaction) and behavioral health indicators such
as sick days, physician visits, etc. Researchers found that entrepreneurs
showed significantly lower overall somatic and mental morbidity, lower blood
pressure, lower prevalence rates of hypertension, and somatoform disorders, as
well as higher well-being and more favorable behavioral health indicators.
Entrepreneurship
is not easy, but we control our own destiny. “Being one’s own boss means almost
unlimited decision autonomy, freedom of choice in the tasks we take on, schedule
flexibility, and the utilization and development of skills,” researchers
concluded. And in today’s corporate world, you have almost the same amount of
stress, uncertainty and anxiety as you do in the entrepreneurial world, without
the autonomy, pride and sense of fulfillment. Consider these stats:- 41 percent of American employees didn’t take a
single vacation day in 2015, according to a Skift
survey.
- 55 percent of American employees didn’t use all of
their vacation days in 2015, according to a recent Project
Time Off study.
- More than one-third of employers require employees
to work on Thanksgiving, according to a 2015
Bloomberg BNA survey.
- Nearly two in five organizations (39%) will require
some employees to work Christmas or New Year's, BNA reports.
- 41 percent of employers will have some staff working on Labor
Day.
- About a quarter of Americans feel that corporate budget cuts/corporate
restructuring will limit their job growth potential over the next five
years, according to a Labor Day
Job Growth Survey published this year.
All this for the “security” of a steady paycheck in a
world in which the vast majority of American workers are “at will” employees
who can be terminated with or without cause (i.e. for just about any damn
reason your employer stats) on two-weeks’ notice? Now that’s a risky career path!
Conclusion
You may have been toiling at your desk on Labor Day, but at the end of the day you chose to do so—you weren’t been forced to do so. BIG DIFFERENCE! It wasn’t so much work as it was growing or maintaining the enterprise you’ve built. Our advice: don’t work for the man—be the man! And never forget to show your grit.
Conclusion
You may have been toiling at your desk on Labor Day, but at the end of the day you chose to do so—you weren’t been forced to do so. BIG DIFFERENCE! It wasn’t so much work as it was growing or maintaining the enterprise you’ve built. Our advice: don’t work for the man—be the man! And never forget to show your grit.
If you’re energy’s sagging a little bit today, that’s to be expected. Don’t reach
for another can of RedBull or coffee. Check out Lolly Daskal’s insightful piece
for Inc. Magazine recently 10
Things That Mentally Tough People Do.
Our blog and website has more.
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