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YOUR POWER PLAN
Excerpted from ENTREPRENEURIAL COUPLES: Making It Work at Work and at Home.
Answer the following questions as honestly as you can. There are no right or wrong answers. The purpose of this exercise is to help focus your attention on your mental, physical, and spiritual health so that you can manage the excessive stresses in your life more effectively and avoid some of the worst crises and breakdowns that entrepreneurial couples are likely to face.
- In comparison to some of the couples in this chapter, what similar problems are you in the process of developing?
- How can you begin today to devote more time to personal stress management, such as the relaxation response?
- What physical health problems, including any addictions, need attending to now?
- If there is any form of domestic violence occurring in your life what is your plan to stop it?
- If you are using extramarital affairs to solve or avoid couple, family or business problems, what is your plan to revamp your style to be consistent your true values?
- If you have a history of financial improprieties and misfortune, what are these signals telling you about the imbalance in your life?
- If you are considering divorce, first ask yourself if divorce is a result of imbalance in the mind - body - spirit connection. If so, what alternatives to restoring balance are there other than divorce?
- What plans have you made with your spouse to discuss a healthy partnership and dissolution agreement with an attorney?
- Take the time to really evaluate your spiritual commitment. If that aspect of your life has been on hold, what’s keeping you from exploring your spiritual commitment now?
- Who are the professionals you rely on to help you build your power plan? Make sure your medical doctor, naturopath, chiropractor, psychologist and so on are in healthy balance themselves so that you all work together to build a power plan that successfully manages the excessive stresses of entrepreneurial couple life.
Evaluating Your Responses
With the experience you have gained by working the other self-assessment exercises in this book, you are better prepared to confront the serious stresses uncovered by this exercise. It takes courage and good communication skills to remedy infidelity, drug abuse, financial problems, and other personal inadequacies. Try to remember that you and your partner are human beings, both doing the best you know how to do, given your level of knowledge and experience at the time. Now however, after reading this chapter, you have more knowledge that before, and it is time to build a more sophisticated power plan than you have ever had.
If you have uncovered only one of the problems alluded to in this exercise, it may take a long time and a lot of work to correct it, but get started. Cleaning up old business paves the way to implementing a more healthy lifestyle in the future. You cannot build a life on shaky ground. Once you have reordered your life by cleaning up mistakes, begin attending to the many stresses that plague the entrepreneurial couple life, and have a plan to defuse stress on a daily basis.
Summarizing Remark
Write one sentence or a brief paragraph summarizing what you learned from this exercise and what you want to change.
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