Self Management Skills and Why You Need Them
Want to boost your productivity and performance? Self management is critical to achieving your goals and increasing your joy at work. These skills are essential to your well-being as a human, too! Remember, you are your business’s greatest resource. You’ve got to make sure you’re taking care of yourself.
What is Self Management?
Self management is often referred to as self-regulation. Perhaps you’ve heard this term before? It’s all about managing your emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and energy levels in different situations. These skills include:
Managing stress
Time management
Organization
Accountability
Adaptability
Decision making
However, how you define self management is really up to your unique strengths and personality. We all experience stress. It affects our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual states. And the workplace is a considerable cause of stress - even if you’re a solo entrepreneur doing it all on your own. By expanding your ability to self manage your stress, you’ll find that those stressors at work will burden your spirit less.
Be sure to surround yourself with high-vibe folks, take space and time for your own self-care, drink plenty of water, and get some rest. These sound like cliche bits of advice, but they’re foundational to creating a physical environment in which your spirit and mental health can thrive.
How to Improve Self Management Skills
If you wonder how to improve self management skills in the workplace, the number one tip I can give you is to get organized. If you’re cringing right now, stay with me! I’ve got you.
Understanding your time management style is essential to self management. And that involves getting organized. The good news is, once it’s done, it’s done! This is exactly what Energetic Containers are all about.
As a spiritual business owner myself, “time blocking” has never done anything for me. It feels too rigid and too structured. Instead, deciding on these containers of time in which I’ll focus my attention on a particular task has revolutionized how I work.
To implement Energetic Containers into your business and life, we create a time management plan, leading to improved self management. We’ll also create flexible routines in your days for both work and real life, identify where you can delegate some responsibilities, and get you a “routine” that you’ll actually stick to - because it’s created specifically for you. Developing self management skills can take a few weeks to integrate into your life fully, but it’s so worth it!
The basis for developing self management skills lies in self-awareness. Part of self management includes a conscious choice between a habit or preferred way of doing things and a more productive task. Here’s an example: You may find yourself procrastinating on a task that you really don’t like - say, setting up discovery calls with folks on your email list - by doing something else you prefer to do, like scrolling social media.
Becoming aware of what you’re doing and why you’re doing it increases your ability to self manage.
You can cultivate self-awareness, and as you work on your self management, you’ll also find yourself becoming even more self-aware!
Benefits of Self Management
Good self management skills mean that as a business owner, you’ll experience better job satisfaction for yourself and your team members. Your team members or employees will also be more productive and more communicative.
Your increased self management skills also help build trust between your clients and customers and your business. And people prefer to work with folks they like and trust. That’s a win/win.
Some other advantages of self management include:
Increased mental health: Our brains tend to focus on the negative, aka the things we haven’t accomplished, so giving up the habit of procrastination means you can get things done and feel better about the tasks in front of you. Talk about stress relief!
Better physical health: When you improve your self management skills, you’re likely to sleep better, eat better, and exercise as needed. This means your immune system is likely to improve, and you’ll be able to fight off illnesses much easier.
Improved joy: When you can maintain better boundaries at work and in non-work environments, you’ll have more time for fun activities, hanging with friends, or spending quality time with your family. What’s not to love?
What are some of your biggest challenges with self management? Hopefully, this post has helped you see things in a different light.
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