Tania Diggory is the founder of Calmer, a platform that empowers entrepreneurs and organisations to nurture good mental wellbeing. Author of This Is Calmer: Inspiration, support and encouragement for the entrepreneurial mind, Tania delivers digital training, workshops, events and workplace training on how to balance mental wellbeing with business success.
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Quotes From the Chat with Tania Diggory
- “How important it is to really take stock of your well-being”
- “I’ve learnt that by being authentic, being yourself, and being true to what you need as an individual in your business is so important because you are the driving force of the business at the end of the day. So, if you are struggling mentally, emotionally, physically then that will have an impact on the quality of your work, and the output of your work et cetera”
- “strengthening your mind is like strengthening a mental muscle. Like how you look at physical exercise and your emotional health and well-being it’s the same thing with your mental health. If you want to do things differently, change something, form a new habit, a new thinking pattern will help you in everyday life there may be a natural resistance to that start with because it’s a change and it’s something new but in the long-term you are embedding new habits that are going to be empowering for you”
- “what we do is supporting your mindset with nurturing your levels of resilience and emotional intelligence in relation to coping with challenges, with change, with being adaptable because those are some very important traits to nurture as an entrepreneur”
- “there is just under 6 million businesses in the UK. And there was a survey conducted not long ago around the impact of stress entrepreneurs and excited that there was around over 60% of entrepreneurs in the UK are struggling with stress and burnout which is a very high number.”
- “We’ve actually created a new campaign which we launched last October 2018 on world mental health Day. And it’s called the Reignite Project, and it’s aim is to reduce the issue of burnout for entrepreneurs in the UK and worldwide by 10% by 2023”
- “your mind is your business’s greatest asset and equally people what make an organisation what it is”
- “looking at the big picture and the whole picture with yourself with others and with the business”
- “we are human beings at the end of the day, we need time to rest and recuperate, refresh, replenish our energy levels so that we can do our best work”
- “what we talk about at Calmer, it’s about celebrating your inner success as well as your outer success. And by that we mean taking time to really acknowledge every step that you take and every achievement that you make that you feel has made a found difference whether it’s a personal journey, something that is deeply rooted in your confident self-esteem in moving forward in a way that you feel is empowering and that you can learn lots of lessons. And also celebrating the success of your business, of the milestones that you are reaching, of the goals that you’re reaching, of the people that you are connecting with and how you are growing long-term. So it is all important in different ways. But starting with you I believe is most important. ”
- “You can’t be thriving necessarily with your mental health but then struggling with your physical health or vice versa. It’s all one system and the mind-body connection is so powerful”
- “I don’t believe that it’s a singular journey being an entrepreneur, far from it. It really is about broadening your support network, educating yourself consistently, reaching out when you need help, it’s supposed to be a community environment. Even if you are a solopreneur so to speak you can still nurture a community and a support network that helps you along your journey because it’s not supposed to be a lonely experience”
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