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OSI Recommends Healthy Living for Healthy Businesses

Author : Bill Gerber
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Topics: improving sales

Does it seem strange to be getting health advice from your online account services provider? It shouldn’t. OSI wants to help your business be the best and most successful it can and that involves more than crunching numbers. We are business owners just like you and we know that taking care of our business means taking care of ourselves.

Stress Is The Enemy

Business owners face unique sources of stress that the average cubicle worker doesn’t understand. We control our business’s destiny, no one else. That is a great burden, even greater if we have employees depending on us.

Nature gave us stress for a reason. Our fight-or-flight reaction allowed our ancestors to deal with threats like dangerous predators. The threats a business owner experiences aren’t the kind that can be dispatched with a stone-tipped spear. The economic troubles a business faces even in good times leave us impotently checking our online account services, powerless to change things. Recognizing and combating that unproductive stress in ourselves is an important management skill.

We Know the Path to a Low Stress Life

Does that sound like we are trying to sell you something? No, OSI hasn’t suddenly gone into the business of medicinal herbs or motivational tapes. It turns out the key to controlling stress lies in controlling your health. If your body is strong, you are better able to handle the crises you will face.

How do you get healthy? You already know the answer to that question. It’s no secret and you’ve been hearing the advice since you were a child. There are three steps to a healthy, low stress life: eat right, exercise and get a good night’s sleep. When your business is struggling and times are hard, that’s when you need these healthy practices more than ever. When your body is strong, stress can’t take hold as easily. You have more energy to handle the difficult challenges that may lie ahead.

When You Go Home, Go Home!

OSI is proud of how accessible and convenient our online account services are. You can check your books at any time, even at 2 in the morning. So why are you checking your books at 2 in the morning? Is it really something that can’t wait until the sun comes up?

As business owners, we have to learn to leave work at work so we can enjoy our home lives. This can be hard when you are an entrepreneur, especially if your home is also your place of work. With home offices so common today, some of us never really leave the office.

Take one evening that you really get away from work. Don’t think about it, don’t check your online account services, just take time to relax and enjoy yourself. You’ll be better prepared to face the challenges tomorrow brings. Then tomorrow night, do it again. Soon it will be a habit and your business will be stronger for it.

 
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