Practicing What You Preach: Building a Wellness Brand Without Losing Yourself

 

How can you build a wellness brand if you don’t practice what you preach?

Starting a company is scary, I don’t care who you are or what your background is; waving a cheerio to a monthly salary when you have a mortgage, a kid and pets to feed feels like staring into an abyss.

To take a week out and spend money on a trip feels almost wantonly wasteful.What about the things that might fall behind? Should I delay until we are shipping?

It seems like there is never a shortage of reasons to delay…. Last week I forced myself to do it, to take the time, to turn the phone off.

What happened?I got the chance to teach my little girl to swim. If I’d delayed then a memory would be lost, an opportunity missed, a thread that binds us together left unsown.

It would also make me a hypocrite because how can we create a tool to give people the time to relax, recharge and focus if I deny those same things of myself.

So we literally and figuratively jumped into that pool and took the time to fill our families soul so that I can return this week lighter and brighter, with a memory that will stay with me forever.

And because of my awesome Co-founders things still progressed at an amazing rate.

What memory are you glad you didn’t delay?

 

Author: Daniel Hartshorn is Co Founder of Flowgreens and a specialist in executive career development. After years of supporting professionals through high stress career transitions, Daniel became deeply interested in the relationship between performance, wellbeing, and nervous system health. He believes sustainable success requires intentional recovery, not just ambition.