Episode 101: Treating Yourself As Your Best Asset
In this Episode 101 of The Business Habitat Podcast, Sam pauses for a moment to reflect on how we should be treating ourselves as our biggest asset. Using the metaphor of our material assets to demonstrate the priorities we place on external factors, Sam illustrates how our attention is sometimes misplaced, often to the detriment of our values and boundaries.
In the current climate of volatility at both a domestic and international level, now more than ever it is important to be looking after ourselves and managing our time and energy to best serve our own needs and those around us. As leaders in business, whether as an employee or as business owners, the demands on our time can seem endless, and it is up to us to best manage our own resources and output.
Sam compares our management of self to the task of looking after our biggest material asset, whether that be our own home, an investment property, or some other financial investment. We research the purchase, we guard it closely, cognisant of who and what we let into the premises. Sam questions whether we are as vigilant when it comes to safeguarding own well-being, often letting ourselves be spread too thin and not doing enough to re-energise.
Now in the era of “The Great Resignation”, experienced and senior people are succumbing to Leadership Fatigue Syndrome. One of the reasons for this is the lack of education around how to better manage and replenish our own energy. If our physical self is the only asset we can truly control, then isn’t it time to start to rethink how we approach our daily work and consider the return on your biggest investment – the asset of you?
What we cover in this episode
We are the biggest assets in our lives
Looking after ourselves in the context of how we might look after our material assets
Do we take better care of our material assets than ourselves?
Building up or depleting our energy
The Great Resignation – why people are leaving toxic workplaces
The ROI on your time and energy
Quotes
“The definition of an asset is ‘a useful and valuable thing or person, it is an item of property owned by a person or company, regarded as having high value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies’ and if you think about our lives, we are the key to that.“
“One of the reasons I think we are suffering from Leadership Fatigue Syndrome is this lack of education for leaders, particularly for business owners in the professional services area, around leading ourselves.“
“The fuel that really drives us, and the fuel that we need to be very conscious of, is our energy to grow ourselves, and to become very aware of how we can actually build up or deplete that energy.“
“(Of) the five things that lead to the prediction if people will leave an environment, or that they will become disengaged from an environment, the top one is toxic culture, and by toxic it means disrespect, not heard, lack of diversification, no rewards, no performance etc.“
Links mentioned
Episode 81: Addressing Leadership Fatigue Syndrome is an Internal Process
Episode 82: Alignment is the Key to Resolving Leadership Fatigue
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