The 1 Thing I Do Every Day to Help with Growing My Business and Life with Angela Henderson – Episode 410

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You’re listening to the Angela Henderson Online business show, episode 410.

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Hey there you amazing human, and welcome to the Angela Henderson Online Business show, the podcast that is designed for female entrepreneurs who want to make more money in a way that is in alignment for them. If you’re looking for practical advice, proven strategies and expert insights to help you navigate the challenges of growing your business, then you’ve come to the right place. Welcome, my friend. I am your host, Angela Henderson, a proud Canadian living in beautiful Australia. And I’m a business coach, consultant and strategist who has helped thousands of women around the world build successful businesses. Through solo episodes and interviews with successful business owners, industry experts and thought leaders, you’ll get insider insights into what it takes to succeed in today’s digital age.

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Hey there. Hey there, you amazing human. Welcome back to another awesome podcast episode with me, your host, Ange from Angela Henderson Consulting. Today I want to share with you one thing that I do every single day, no matter what. That helps me to grow my business, but also helps me to ensure that my life is on the right track. Now, what I’m about to share with you is not rocket science. This is not hard. This is not difficult. To the outside that is. But actually doing it every day, repetitively and putting it into practice is where it becomes hard. And the reason why it becomes hard is that our life starts to improve. Our life and business start to improve. Things get better.

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And normally when things get better, we then want to self protect ourselves, AKA self sabotage because of fear I’m not good enough or whatever narrative we are telling ourselves. But I’m here to tell you this one simple thing I do. There’s multiple things that I do, but not necessarily consistently. This is one thing I do consistently every single day. And this one thing has helped improve my business in my life dramatically. So the one thing that I do is I ask myself this simple question. What’s one thing you can do today, Angela, that your future self will thank you for?

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Now, the reason why this question is so powerful and again so simple is because I used to try to do everything because that’s what I was reading you must journal, you must work out, you must do your email list, you must do this, you must do that. And I became quite overwhelmed because some days, as you know, if you’re a mother and kids in extracurricular activities and if you have a partner and if you have animals or if you have aging parents, you can’t always get to everything that you feel you quote, unquote, have been told you should be doing. And so what I did is I was like, ang, you got to cut yourself a little bit of a break. You’ve got to be kind to yourself. You got to show yourself a little bit of self compassion.

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But what’s one thing you could do that your future self would thank you for? And then I have a list of different things that I could pick from. Sometimes it might be that it’s more business focused, you know, I mean, the one thing that my future self would thank me for is to finally get those three day Women in Business conference tickets for, you know, our event in October, live in selling. It could be the one thing that my future self that I need to do today that will thank me for is I need to again pull my figure out and I need to email the council to see what grants are available, etc. Because what’s the one thing that your future self will thank you for? Is you’re gaining momentum, but you’re also doing action. An imperfect action always leads to momentum.

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Other days though, what’s the one thing you can do today, Angela, that your future self will thank you for? It could be a 30 minute walk, it could be the meditation, it could be journaling. And now some days I might do a combination. I might do the walk, I might do the journal, I might do the meditation, but instead that’s when I get to choose to do that. Does that make sense? I have got time to do that. It feels light, it feels easy, and I can embrace it versus, oh God, there’s like my list of things to do discontinues. And so by stripping it down to one thing that my future self will thank me for, it feels light, it feels easy, it feels achievable.

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And when things are achievable and you start to do them consistently, you start to build this confidence muscle inside of you that you know, I can do this, it’s all right, I’ve got this. And that’s exactly what’s happened with me. So I encourage you to write your list of different things that you’ve been wanting to do or you try to do and then choose One of those things on any given day that your future self will thank you for. It could be reconnecting with your partner and going on a date night because your marriage or your relationship is really important and things have been off and, you know, you love that human and you want to, you know, do something different. It might be that.

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It might be that your future self would thank you for picking up the phone and reaching out to your best friend and asking her how she was. It could be that your future self would thank you for sitting in the sunshine. There is a variety of variables and things that could go on that list, but only you will know what you need. And that’s the thing I also will say, is lean into what you need. Some days I do need meditation because I can feel my anxiety. Some days I just need to sit in the sun. Other days I just need to go to the gym. And some days, like I said, I’ll do accommodation.

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So the one thing that I do every day to help grow my business and my life is I ask myself, what’s one thing you can do today, Angela, that your future self will thank you for? And I want you to think about that also. You can put that question on your mobile phone. You can put that question on a sticky note. You can make it your screensaver. You could send a daily reminder on your phone or on your email to remind you to ask yourself that question. Because once you get into the habit, consistency builds confidence, builds rhythm builds, flow builds, life builds, revenue builds. It all starts to build. So I hope you have a beautiful day no matter where you are in the world. And I look forward to you joining me again for another awesome, amazing podcast episode. Real soon.

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