How We Take Care of Ourselves

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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At work, self-care might mean asking for a deadline extension, going to the gym in the middle of the day, or blocking off a few hours to prioritize tasks for the week. But that’s all easier said than done. We speak with a happiness researcher about how to find the time we need to take care of ourselves (and then actually do it). Guest: Ashley Whillans. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:27.4	Amy B, how much self-care do you do right now?
0:31.7	Well, I will say right now? Well I will say right now I'm taking way better care of myself than I was a
0:38.6	week ago so I'm hitting the gym going to yoga I'm going to yoga, I'm not, you know, eating my stress or drinking it, you know, not answering
0:50.3	emails at all hours and being a lot more mindful of the boundaries I need to set.
0:58.0	How about you, Nicole?
0:59.0	I think I take pretty good care of myself, but I think there are a lot of people who would
1:03.2	disagree with that I don't know if my coworkers would say the same thing I don't
1:06.6	know if my partner or my parents would say that I take good care of myself.
1:10.0	What about you Amy Jay? It's in fits and starts.
1:15.0	I'm also in a good place right now where I'm doing more exercise.
1:19.0	I've gotten a few massages in the last month.
1:22.0	I've been more boundering around. gotten a few massages in the last month.
1:22.9	I've been more boundering around my use of my phone,
1:27.6	but there are times even days where it just is not good.
1:32.0	And once you lose that discipline of self-care,
1:38.6	it's like gone.
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