Use Gratitude Journaling to Practice Self-Compassion as Entrepreneurs
We’re here at the very beginning of a new year where we need to start working towards new goals and find the energy to work towards the future. This week, we’d like to challenge you to find an opportunity for some self-compassion.
We recently had a great conversation with Dr. Chloe Carmichael about harnessing the power of your anxiety in order to turn it into a super power. The big thing she mentioned was around self-awareness, and in the Founders First app, we do a good job of making sure we’re tracking our mood and anxiety every single day.
But she also mentioned this idea of self-compassion around that awareness. So, first we’re aware of how we feel, and second, we’re compassionate to ourselves and we don’t beat ourselves up when things don’t go the way that we want them to go. We often do that as a default pattern but the goal here is not to.
So, if you’re using the Founders First app and you notice you’re not tending in a positive direction in your Journal, what is a way that we can have a little bit of self-compassion around where we are to not beat ourselves up for how we got there? Maybe a client deal didn’t close, a project fell through, a deadline got missed, or we just can’t get done what we want to get done in the craziness after the holidays.
This week, we’re sharing a video on the gratitude journaling practice, but we want you to do it a little bit differently. We want you to do it while focused on self-compassion.
As you go through the gratitude journaling process, instead of the structure that we typically share, we want you to instead think about the ways that we can forgive ourselves for the ways that we hold ourselves accountable, the ways that we’re really critical with ourselves.
Take a moment as part of a gratitude journaling practice this week, see if you can do it every morning as part of your morning routine, or once a day, maybe in the evenings as part of your evening routine. Think about the ways that we are tough on ourselves, and then we want you to just write down a couple of things that we’re grateful for around that. We can be a little more kind to ourselves as we’re in this pressure cooker, starting the year, trying to get things done in our businesses as entrepreneurs.
The gratitude journaling tool is one of many tools available in the Founders First mindstate tracking app for entrepreneurs. See all the tools and get personalized recommendations on how to best invest your time each day based on your current mindstate by trying the app free for 7 days.
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