Every entrepreneur needs a mental health plan to succeed with Shulamit Ber Levtov

<h2>Entrepreneurs need to create a mental health plan, the same as you create a business plan. No matter how great your business plan is, you will not succeed without a healthy mind.</h2> <p>In order to succeed in life and business, every entrepreneur needs a mental health plan. Why, because your thoughts influence your emotions, which influence your behaviors, which in turn influence your outcomes.</p> <p>The healthier your mind, body, and soul connection, the better your business will develop and the better your relationships will be.</p> <p>It is difficult to manage your mental health and well-being while running your own business. There is an intersection between business and mental health.</p> <h3>Every entrepreneur needs a mental health plan to avoid burnout.</h3> <h4>Factors contributing to mental health challenges, hitting a wall, or becoming burnt out throughout entrepreneurial journeys include:</h4> <p>High achieving mindset</p> <p>Perfectionism</p> <p>Isolation and loneliness</p> <p>Don’t delegate soon enough resulting in burnout</p> <p>It is the cumulative impact of running a business without taking care of yourself. Self-care is a complex concept, especially for high-achieving, busy women.</p> <p><a href="https://therobyngraham.com/self-care/"><strong>Listen to Episode 126 with Sara Palmer.</strong></a></p> <p>There is a baseline level of activation in our nervous system that makes us who we are and to have the ability to handle the stresses we are faced with. We all have a baseline level of tolerance and if we are always at the top level of this tolerance when life gets overwhelming, we peak over our personal level of tolerance. This results in burnout.</p> <h3>Every entrepreneur needs a mental health plan that includes inexpensive and easy-to-accomplish and repeat self-care ideas:</h3> <p>It is important to be able to regulate our level of stress to keep it within our level of tolerance. An idea for self-care to keep you in a positive mental state and be able to handle stresses that arise is to set