How to Manage Illness While Creating a Successful Business

While there are a lot of reasons we may want to work less, one important reason is one we don’t always talk about: Illness. Chronic illness is something that affects a lot more of us than we realize. Whether it’s physical or mental, chronic illness has the potential to seriously impact our personal and professional lives; and when we are entrepreneurs trying to build a business, a chronic illness can feel like an impossible obstacle to overcome. But it’s not. I brought founder of the Solopreneur Academy, Sue Allen Clayton, back on The Stress Less Show, to give us some tips for managing illness and a successful business!

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How to Cope with the Stress of Caregiving

I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that getting older is filled with a lot of stress. When we are kids, our parents and parental figures often act as our protectors from the day to day stresses and responsibilities that are now commonplace in our lives - bills, work, insurance, you name it. Our parents take care of us, so we can feel free to explore and learn about the world. However, one thing that we don’t always like to talk about getting older is the stress that comes from having to become caregivers in life, for our aging parents, chronically ill loved ones, and more. It can be overwhelming to manage caregiving responsibilities with our own daily lives, and it inevitably affects everyone at some point as time goes on. That is why this week on The Stress Less Show, we are talking about how to manage the stress that comes with caregiving…