“I can go 80% of the day now without checking my email.”
Imagine not feeling the urge to check your email and constantly make sure everything is okay at work, when you’re enjoying family time or out on vacation? I’ll let you in on a secret- It is possible.
When you’ve been trained that success = “go, go, go,” from childhood, that instinct carries into your adult life.
Nadya’s workaholism gave her a sense of control, but it also limited her growth. It took releasing that control and bringing in the right help, with the right systems, to lay the foundations for her next round of growth.
After being the sole reason your business got off the ground, how do you get out and gain freedom? Will you lead your team in the weeds, or allow yourself to release that feeling of control?
Key Takeaways
Constantly having your (fingers in all the pots) doesn’t help you grow after a certain point. It Keeps you from growing. Letting go of control is a process:
Key Moments
{03:35} “I was producing the show, I was building my client base and I was going to school part-time, so I was working 70 hours a week that year regularly. At that time it felt very much like, I gotta go balls to the wall if I wanna achieve this goal and be leading this company.”
{03:57} “I felt like if I wasn't doing something or I wasn't really putting all my energy almost all the time into work, it was like I wouldn't be successful.”
{04:13} “It's not about working hard or working long. It's about working smart. It's about working efficiently, and it's about kind of giving away the stuff that you don't wanna do and giving it to people who do wanna do that and can grow in that.”
{14:33} “If I feel like, ‘oh, I say I'm gonna work a little bit this weekend’, and then the weekend comes and my energy is not saying it wants to work, it wants to relax, it wants to just be like, you know what, nevermind, I'll just tackle this on Monday.”
{18:41} “Start with your life and what you want your life to look like in five or 10 years, and then back into what your business needs to do to make that happen. That’s where purpose and profit can come together.”
More about Nadya
Nadya Rousseau is a writer, producer, and the founder and CEO of purpose forward marketing, PR, and media company Alter New Media. In just five years, she has serviced over 600 mission-driven companies.
Get in touch with Nadya
Email: nadya@alternewmedia.com
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