How are we caring for ourselves?
How are you caring for yourself?
Self-care has been one of the most important things for me to learn as I've grown my business.
And it's been one of the most important things that keeps me in alignment, that keeps me
drawing things to me, that keeps me being successful and happy at the same time instead
of pushing things away, instead of forcing things, and feeling stressed out, overwhelmed,
and anxious, especially as an entrepreneur.
So today I want to talk to you about self-care and how to keep yourself in an energy of happiness,
power, and inspiration so that you can go out there and inspire people to work with
you and inspire people to listen to you, come to you, follow you, without burning yourself
out.
It's not going to be boring.
I'm not going to be talking about taking a bath and listening to music and candles and
meditating.
I'm going to give you the real stuff, so today it's all about what's happening up here in
your mind, what's happening in your heart, and in your soul.
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Hey there, coach.
It's Carolin in here, and today I want to help you design a self-care routine that's
very easy to implement, yet very effective to keep you in the receiving mode in your
business.
As an entrepreneur, I'm sure you've experienced times where you felt really stressed out.
Maybe you have felt anxious.
Maybe you have felt overwhelmed.
Maybe your body was even giving you symptoms of stress and anxiety too.
For me, my skin is always the first sign of stress.
When I get stressed out my skin says, "Hold on a minute.
I'm going to break out and I'm going to tell you that you had enough."
But seriously, you know these times when your thoughts sort of spiral out of control and
you're thinking, "I can do this no more.
This is enough.
The world is against me.
I have no support"?
And all you can think about it negative stuff, negative things that are happening to you,
and you're absolutely in a mode where you're pushing against everything and you just can't
do anything.
When you're feeling like that, you can't inspire your clients.
You can't inspire people around you.
You can't even inspire yourself, and it's really hard to get out of this funk.
I've ran my business for the last three years as a business coach and five years as a health
coach, so I know a thing or two about stress when it comes to running a business.
I also work with hundreds of clients all around the world who come to me frequently saying,
"Carolin, I'm stressed out.
I feel negative.
I can't get my head in the right space.
I just don't feel good.
What can I do?"
And it's been my role giving me my tips, holding space for them, and helping them get themselves
back on track, feeling good, being back in their power, and moving towards their goals,
and today I want to help you get out of your funk and back on the road to success.
To design your self-care routine, I want you to think about three things, your mind, your
body, and your soul.
Let's start with your mind.
A powerful mind is full of positive thoughts, and positive thoughts lead to powerful actions
that will lead you to results.
Now, when you're stuck in this funk and all you're thinking about is negative stuff, how
do you get yourself out?
Well, there's a sequence of things that I do that you can do right away too in the beginning
of your day, throughout your day, and to close out your day that will help you get yourself
back on track with your mind and back into positive thoughts, power, love, and happiness.
The first thing I want you to do is think about gratitude.
When you're starting a day off with gratitude, you're feeling better instantly, and that's
actually a trait of a giver anyway, so if you're out there to give things to people,
to serve people, and love people, gratitude is your number one go-to emotion.
I start my day with a gratitude journal, and I literally find things I can feel grateful
for every single day.
Some days they are big things like big wins that I experienced in my business.
Some days it's my family and my boys.
Some days it's our health, our house, our home.
It might be my dog.
It might be my team, the amazing clients coming to us, the abundance coming to us, this beautiful
city I live in, this beautiful universe we live in, knowing that this universe has my
back, and that all I need to do is go forward powerfully with my intention to do good in
the world and I will be supported no matter what.
So your gratitude could be for small things or big things.
I doesn't matter, and it's going to change every single day.
Just let it flow.
Take five to 10 minutes to think about what you're thankful for, what you're so grateful
for, and see how amazingly beautiful and powerful you will feel.
Do you hear my boys singing?
I can feel grateful for my boys singing during my YouTube video.
The next thing I want you to do is pick an emotion of the day.
Now, again there tips are not that hard just yet, but they're very, very powerful.
For me, my go to emotion has been love and joy.
Love and joy.
Love is great because I can give love and I can receive love, and joy to me is an emotion
that is high vibe.
It's high energy.
It gets me excited.
It kind of gives me goosebumps even talking about right now.
So write down this energy, love and joy, right?
And think about this energy all day long and consciously remind yourself of how you want
to feel as you move throughout your day.
Think love.
Where can I see love?
How can I receive more love?
How can I give more love?
And how can I feel joyful right now?
Look for signs in your environment that you're receiving love, that you're giving love, and
that you are ready right now to feel joyful in this very moment.
The next thing I want you to do while you're still in your journal is literally write your
reality into existence, so once you're done with gratitude and you're clear on the emotion
you want to feel right now today, I want you to write about things as if they're already
true.
I have an abundance of clients.
My home is paid off.
I am debt-free.
I'm with the love of my life.
My clients are amazing.
They're having results every single day.
My bank account is full.
My body is healthy.
My body is energetic.
I am free.
I'm living in this world and I can do anything I want to do.
Nobody is holding me back.
Whatever thoughts come to you, there's no right or wrong.
Let those thoughts flow on paper, and don't limit yourself and literally write your desires,
your emotions into existence right now, and feel yourself into this powerful state.
It's an amazing thing to do.
It doesn't take a lot of time.
Give it five minutes, and you feel completely different.
It'll help you start off your day in a completely different way.
The last thing you should do every single morning after your journaling practice is
meditation.
Now, whether you believe in meditation or you don't really doesn't matter.
Meditation is a way for you to relax and calm your mind.
Especially when you're in a state of fear and anxiety right now, it's very hard to stop
your thoughts from coming back and telling you that you can't do something and you're
afraid of something and, oh my god, what if something happens today?
So the best thing you can do even throughout your day is take 10 to 15 minutes to meditate
and calm your mind and calm your body as well, and all it takes is silence.
You can listen to a meditation music.
You can listen to a recording.
There's tool out there that you can purchase, or you can simply be quiet and relax your
mind.
An amazing bonus.
One last thing I think everybody out there should do, especially entrepreneurs and people
who are looking to grow themselves and attract more goodness and happiness into their lives
is read.
Fill your mind with things that will serve you.
Read books.
Read about personal development.
Read about spirituality.
Read the bible.
Read a business book.
It doesn't matter what it is.
Pick something that you feel will serve you and your goal.
So any given moment, every single day, even if it's just for 10, 15 minutes read a couple
of pages in a book or listen to an audiobook, that's okay too, so that you can continue
to nourish your mind, feed your mind with new thoughts and new ideas that will help
you get ahead and help you do things you always wanted to do.
Let's talk a little bit about your body and being active.
One big mistake I made in the beginning of my career is stop working out.
I thought that working out was a waste of my time, and instead of working out and going
for a run or doing a workout I would sit on my computer.
I thought the 30 minutes spent on a workout should be spent on writing another sales page,
going on social media, talking to a client, or doing something else for my business.
What happened is that I gained a lot of weight, I got really out of shape, and I got even
more stressed, so I have five tips for you to help you look after your body and look
and feel your best.
Tip number one is very simple, and that is a 30 to 45-minute daily workout.
Starting today, I want you to think about your workouts as rejuvenating and energizing
instead of a big beat down.
I used to look at my workouts as punishment, and I would work out as hard as possible.
I would sweat.
I would lift weights, and I would tell myself, "You go faster.
You go harder," and you would dread my workouts because it was almost like a punishment for
my body.
Nowadays I look at my workouts as wellness, as stress relief, as almost relaxation because
my workouts, they're getting the energy out.
They actually help me relax, so what I do is a 30 to 45-minute bike ride in the morning,
and I love my Peloton bike.
I have a link for you in the description below to the Peloton bikes in a company.
I'm not associated with them, but you can go check out those bikes and maybe you'll
love them just as much as I do.
Step number two is to go for a walk.
In addition to your workout, I think you should go for a walk for at least 20 minutes a day.
Don't run.
Just walk, because walking is calming.
Walking gets you out there, gets you to breathe in that fresh air, gets you some sunlight,
and it allows you to look around the world, calm your mind, and maybe even process some
things you need to be processing and have no ideas on your daily morning walk.
Step number time is to get more sun.
Believe it or not, the sun is really important for you and your body, and I have found that
getting more sun actually energizes me.
Maybe it's got something to do with vitamin D. I'm not a doctor, but getting sunlight
every single morning is so important, and it makes me feel like I'm with the planet,
I'm with this Earth, and I'm soaking in this amazing energy that the sun can give us.
Step number four is sauna time.
I recently purchased a sauna for my house, and all it takes is 10, maybe 15 minute max
in your sauna to really detox your body and relax even more.
Some people like to do hot yoga in a sauna.
I literally just sit there.
Sometimes I listen to an audiobook.
Sometimes I meditate in my sauna, but I literally just relax, and I let my body detox and calm
in this super hot, comfortable, cozy environment, so to me a sauna is essential for your self-care,
your relaxation, and it might be something you want to invest for your home gym or your
house so you can do it any time of the day and any time you want.
And step number five is yoga.
You may not be a proponent of yoga, you may not like yoga, but trust me, give it a try
and you might actually enjoy it.
Yoga, again, doesn't have to take much time.
There are so many yoga classes available all around you, you could even do yoga from your
house.
Look up a yoga class on YouTube.
Look up yoga class online.
There are so many different sources available, and do yoga for 15 minutes, 20 minutes.
Stretch and move your body.
Move it slowly.
Feel the muscles in your body.
Feel them work.
Feel them stretch.
Feel them lengthen, and relax into that workout.
I love yoga because it actually relaxes me while working out different muscles in my
body and keeping me in good shape.
Again, it's something that energizes you instead of beating you down and stressing you out
even more.
Now that you're feeling good about your mind, you're feeling great about your body, let's
talk about your soul.
Your soul has to do with connection.
I believe that we can fuel our soul and feel great and feel happy when we have powerful
connections in our lives, but sometimes as an entrepreneur we are so time-starved and
we tend to spend more time in our businesses, with our clients and with our teams, and we
may neglect our family and our friends and maybe even our pets.
So in order for you to refuel and fill your soul with this happiness and that connection
that you're really desiring and seeking and craving, what I want you to do is go back
to your family, your friends, and the people that mean the most to you and spend more time
with them.
This is a really simple step, but because so hard for many people to do because they
feel so guilty about spending time away from their business, but trust, it's important
and you need to do it for long-term growth and feeling great in your business, which
you deserve, every single day.
Let's have a conversation.
I'm curious what you've thought about this episode and I'm curious about your self-care
routine.
In the comments below let me know what you're thinking, what you will do for your own self-care,
and let's have a conversation.
Today I also have something really special for you.
You know at the end of every episode I going to give you something really special, something
that can serve your business, something that can really get you ahead, something that adds
tremendous value, so today I've thought about what I can give you, but I don't want to give
you a download.
I don't want to give you a template.
I don't even want to give you another class because this about self-care and really serving
you to the fullest, so I want to give you a conversation because really it's about that
connection that we have, that relationship that we can build, that you can have with
me, that you can have with my team.
One thing that really sets me and my team apart is that we care more than anybody else
out there, and we don't just care about your money and your clients and your business.
We care about you as a person.
We care about your happiness and your joy in the world, and building a business for
the income but also building a business so that you can have freedom, you can feel fulfilled,
you can feel satisfied, and you can feel happy, right?
And that's really what it's all about, so what I want to offer you today is the chance
to speak with me and my team about your business, about what's going on right now, about what's
bugging you, what's going well, what's not going so well.
And if we can serve you, we may even work together.
I've never done this before in any YouTube episode, but today I felt so compelled to
speak with you because giving you templates, giving you trainings, and giving you more
of this stuff may not be enough right now.
So if you want to book a call with me and my team, there's a link below in the description.
It's carolinsoldo.com/apply.
Go there.
That's our booking calendar.
You can select the time, and then you and I can talk about your business right now and
your situation, and see how we can serve you to your highest.
Now stay focused on your goals and go out there and bring your passions to the world.
Thank you so much for watching.
I truly hope this served you.
I can't wait to see your self-care routine down below in the comments, and I can't wait
to see you next week.
Until then, take care, have fun, create more happiness in your life, and I'll see you soon.
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