E161. How to Slow Down Even for High Performers, Business Owner MJ Gordon

On PivotMe today, we talk to MJ Gordon, Business Owner and coach that scaled her business, built her team, and then - burned it all to the ground when she realized her foundation was weak. She helps provide people with clear steps that help them create life on their terms.

MJ explains how she learned to slow down and live everyday vacation after years of 100-hour weeks building a business. In this episode, we discuss the importance of taking care of yourself as a high performer and respecting your support system as a new business owner.

Listen in to learn how to practice negative visualization to help you change from the destructive course you’re headed towards. You will also learn how to live intentionally by building a foundation for your life and doing the things that serve you. 

Pivotal Questions Asked:

[3:40] Would you explain what the everyday vacation is and why you started the idea? [9:36] How did you manage your mindset with everything you had going on? [12:00] How did you manage this transition from going 100-hour weeks to having an affirmation on slowing down? [33:56] What would you say to someone who’s questioning the demands of their schedule and the way they’re approaching their business? [49:54] If you could tell the world one thing, what would it be?   

In This Episode You Will Learn:

[7:40] How she transformed her life to focus on creating a lifestyle that supported recovery. [12:08] How to stop justifying your intense work hours and focus on living intentionally. [21:59] How to balance moving into your sympathetic and parasympathetic to have more resilience to stress. [27:26] Don’t diminish your service value and ability to give more by giving up your support system to be more productive. [30:06] Ask yourself if you’re willing to sacrifice your life to build the business you envision. [34:17] Get to know yourself first and then identify how to set up your business in a way that serves you. [45:21] How we sometimes create fictitious reasons for ourselves that are not truly serving. [50:00] Put love first and stop living in fear. 

Quotes:

 

“You can definitely through small intentional acts consistently move towards a goal.”- MJ [12:34] “We actually have a high resilience capacity, but only for a short period of time.”- MJ [22:41] “A lot of time if you’re so busy that you don’t have time for yourself, you don’t get to know yourself at all.”- MJ [35:15]

 

Connect with MJ:

Website: https://www.mj-gordon.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MJGordon1/videos Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marinjayden IG: https://www.instagram.com/marinjayden/

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

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