Entrepreneurship will Change You

Institute Editorial Team 08/16/2021

by Carol Strazinsky Starting your own business can be a challenge. Entrepreneurship will test your talents, your mental toughness, and your ability to adapt. And those tests—if you pass them—can spark extraordinary growth. Becoming an entrepreneur strengthens self-awareness and will allow insight you likely didn’t notice before. If you are thinking about pursing the gig economy, here are three ways entrepreneurship will change you. You’ll develop self reliance. Entrepreneurs need to learn to solve their own problems, or fail. They don’t have a team to handle the daily grind of running a business. Instead, new entrepreneurs handle everything from product development to accounting. It’s a stressful and high stakes juggling game. But it can teach you a critical lesson: You’re far more resourceful than you thought.…

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Categories: Gig Economy, Leadership & Career Advancement, Wellness & Personal Growth

Tags: entrepreneurship, financial wellness

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This post is based on a webinar hosted by Dr. Denise Reading. It’s the first in an ongoing series of workshops, webinars, and for-credit courses offered by the Institute for Women, Wellness and Work to help women explore freelancing, consulting, and solopreneur opportunities as a path to a satisfying and successful professional experience. “Gig economy” is a phrase you’ve probably heard a lot, especially in the last couple of years. It refers to the part of the workforce (more than half!) that doesn’t work full-time for one employer, but instead takes on multiple opportunities from different sources. The term got its start in the music industry. Musicians generally refer to a performance they’re hired for as a gig. That terminology has spread to other industries,…

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Institute Editorial Team 06/07/2021

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Institute Editorial Team 08/02/2021

How to Start Running Regularly Even as a Beginner

Running is a great workout that strengthens your heart and lungs and improves your fitness. It also has mental health benefits. Here are nine tips for running regularly even if you are a beginner. 1. Start Slow It’s tempting to want to push yourself at the beginning of your running journey to achieve your goal as quickly as possible. You want to run long distances and know it takes work, so why not try to get there soon as possible? You could injure yourself if you try going too far or too fast. At the very least, your muscles will be extremely sore, and you might feel sick. This will set you back and could dissuade you from continuing to run. 2. Follow a Program…

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Caregivers, this is for you. Even before the pandemic, more than 16% of the US population was providing unpaid care to an adult 18 years or older, including family members with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Women make up about 75% of those caregivers, and they put in the work while juggling jobs, children, and ongoing domestic-task overload. With COVID back on the rise, caregivers are under additional pressure to care for and protect their loved ones. If you’re a caregiver, the stress may seem relentless, and you may be: having trouble sleeping under/over-eating self-medicating with alcohol or drugs canceling (or not even booking) your own doctors’ appointments That’s because when you’re a caregiver, caring for yourself tends to happen only after everyone else’s needs have been…

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Institute Editorial Team 09/26/2023

5 Exercises for Practicing Self-Compassion

Have you ever beat yourself up or said unkind words to yourself? If you’re like most of us, your answer is probably “yes.” Especially as women, we tend to be our own worst critics, and we usually treat ourselves in cruel ways that we’d never treat other people!But there’s a different way. Self-compassion is the practice of being kind and understanding with ourselves — not only when we succeed, but when we fail, too. Here, we’ve compiled 5 exercises you can use to start practicing self-compassion. These practices are based on extensive research by Dr. Kristin Neff, a psychologist who specializes in self-compassion. Try to incorporate them into your daily schedule as much as possible. You can use these 5 exercises at any time, day…

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