BEING THE BOSS
WORKOUT
Being your own boss in
today’s society...
Katie Hardwicke from Burlexercise asks:
do we ever really stop working?
T
he way technology has
developed over the
last 10 years means we
have everything at our
fingertips rom the mobile alone
I can answer emails, transfer
money, attend to my social media,
make videos, take pictures,
monitor my exercise, oh and
ma e phone calls and te t
On one hand this is fantastic!
I can tweet whilst on the train,
I can upload pictures to our
urle ercise aceboo page whilst
in the bath after class have
apps that allow me to monitor my
exercise, showing exactly what
happens during a Burlexercise
class; through other apps I can
share with the whole world
Overall it means I can reach
audiences couldn’t before and
s uee e in e tra hours of wor
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So, what’s the problem
with that?
As great as it is being able to
work in moments where time
would have been lost, such as
being on a train, we need to be
aware that it isn’t becoming so
all consuming that we never
actually switch off
n occasion
I have found my partner and me
in complete silence at 10pm, the
on, both of us starring into
our i hones ather than tal to
each other during adverts, we’d
pick up our phones and start on
social media for our businesses
this is when alarm bells rang
I’d already scheduled posts on
the urle ercise aceboo page
that day and had tweeted a few
hours ago what was gaining by
scrawling through my pictures at
10pm, trying desperately to think
of something to weet A A
So it’s at this point I decided, for
my own sanity and for the sake
of all my relationships, I have to
ensure that during certain parts
of the day and evening, work
can wait
We must not lose out on quality
time with our loved ones because
the urge and the ease to work is
there
or our wor to be
successful, we should certainly
allow ourselves moments of
rela ation and downtime ven
those of us where the 9-5 just
doesn’t exist, we still need to give
our minds times of rest
Give your mind the chance to
recover from the day’s events,
ta e the opportunity to re ect,
as it’s these moments that
help us grow both creatively
and emotionally
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