227: 9 Most Common Self-Care Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (and how to avoid them)

<p><strong>Nine  Most Common Self-Care Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (and how to avoid them)</strong></p><p>I want to talk about the nine most common self-care mistakes entrepreneurs make and how to avoid them. Self-care isn't just about getting manicures and facials, or even getting your hair colored, or hair done, or even just getting your Botox or your fillers. It's about giving yourself the time and space to live your life as a well-rounded person. It's about treating yourself the way you treat a best friend, your best friend. Entrepreneurship makes it way too easy to ignore self-care. If most of us are honest, we'll admit that we weren't super hot at self-care even before we started our businesses. </p><p>So self-care is really a mindset problem rather than a logistical one. Here are the nine most common self-care mistakes that entrepreneurs like you and I make.</p><p><strong>Number one: </strong>Skipping meals, eating way too much junk food, or constantly hitting the caffeine to get you through the day.<br><strong>Number two: </strong>Going short on sleep, working late into the night, or getting up way too early for clients.<br><strong>Number three:</strong> Ignoring your body's need to pee because you just need five more minutes to finish this job<br><strong>Number four:</strong> Discounting your inner alarm bells and taking on clients that you really don't want to work with. <br><strong>Number five:</strong> Regularly standing up to your friends or family to meet a business deadline. <br><strong>Number six: </strong>Giving up your hobbies and other non-work interest because you just don't have time. <br><strong>Number seven: </strong>Neglecting your meditation, journaling, or other spiritual practice. <br><strong>Number eight:</strong> Forgetting to take time out to connect with whatever form of spirit or source that takes for you. <br><strong>Number nine: </strong>Feeling as though you need to do everything yourself and refusing to allow the universe to help. </p><p><br><strong>In this episode, ke