Hobbies are important for your mental health and overall well-being.

But as a creative business owner, oftentimes the overlap of fun and work gets way too gray.

Keep them too gray for too long and you'll find

yourself in a position where you're all work in no play. Add a global

pandemic where your opportunities to play are dwindled down to what you can do within

the confines of your four walls and you maybe have a problem. You're not taking the time to

nurture yourself.

Welcome to Being Boss, a podcast for creatives,

business owners, and entrepreneurs

who want to take control of their work

and live life on their own terms.

I'm your host, Emily Thompson Thompson and today I want to steer

away from work quite a bit to talk about life. In particular I want to talk about

hobbies and how and why it is that you need to be cultivating hobbies within

your life, not your business, so that you can show up as a more well-rounded and fulfilled human being and fuel your business a bit too.

I was prompted to dive into this episode a couple of weeks ago whenever I did a CEO Day Kit live with a bunch of

bosses in the Being Boss community and previous purchasers of our CEO Day Kit.

One of the steps of CEO Day Kit

is a section called Cycles of Creation.

And in this step, I guide bosses

through a process of identifying the different phases of creation and then helping

them define what phase they are in in different aspects of their life.

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