Episode 49: The Importance of Integrating Business, Career and Life
In Episode 49, Sam shares candidly from her story of the significant changes she’s been through going from being an accountant in a firm to starting and growing BlueprintHQ. Plus, Sam covers why we need to take some time to reflect individually and as an industry on what 2020 has taught us.
Sam explores the problem of looking at our business and personal lives separates, and the power of integrating business and personal into a whole person, as well as the very real challenges we are facing with physical and mental health right now.
Sam shares how we can leverage the time we take for ourselves to benefit those around us, including clients, and the importance of looking after ourselves first so we can go on helping others.
Listen to an excerpt
What we cover in this episode
A bit about Sam’s personal story and how change has been a feature
Why we need to take some time to reflect individually and as an industry on what 2020 has taught us
The problem with looking at our business and our personal lives separately
The power of integrating business and personal into a whole person
The very real challenges we are facing with physical and mental health right now
How we can leverage the time we take for ourselves to benefit those around us, including clients
Why the BlueprintHQ team is so dedicated to helping those who want to change in our industry
The importance of looking after ourselves first so we can go on helping others
A simple step-by-step approach to habit change
Quotes
“It has been a very interesting year, to say the least, and…we need to really take some time and space to see what it's taught us, both from a personal and business and careers point of view as well.”
“[I’m] a person who's undergone significant change in my life. Six years ago I was in a very big accounting firm, I was basically burnt out, I was extremely overweight, and really addicted to alcohol, there was a dependency issue there. And it's very hard for me to say that, but it's true.”
“I think that a lot of people—and I certainly was the same—we look at our business and our personal life separately, and our passions outside of business and our passions within business, too…But it all integrates into this one beautiful person that is ourselves.”
“I really love and am passionate about this industry and I think that we need to go through some significant change. Here at BlueprintHQ, the team and I are very dedicated to supporting that, we're very passionate about helping those who want to change and give them options, both changing in their business and how they deliver to their clients in their everyday. So their End of Year and then growing that. But then also the underlying for that, because if you're not healthy inside and outside of work, it really does reflect in your business.”
“We have to create some time and space in our days and really start looking after ourselves. And by looking after ourselves, we look after everybody else, because we are the most important player in our lives. Everybody around us depends on us.”
“We have to start looking after ourselves. We really need to start doing this. There's lots of ways to do that. Just start small. Just spend five minutes a day, walk up and down the stairs or take a lunch break…Go outside and sit on the ground. Just pick one thing.”
“We're also here to help you to get small habits into your day to really start freshening up because honestly, the economy and the businesses in this economy in Australia and around the world, depend on us and they need us healthy.”
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