{"id":4839,"date":"2014-09-12T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:00:02","slug":"entrepreneur-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/entrepreneur-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid Entrepreneur Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3889\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3889\" src=\"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Confused-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Trust and Privacy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feeling sad? Here is a way to feel part of something.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Being an entrepreneur is great on a lot of levels. From the outside, I always envied the people that owned their own business. Sure, they seemed to have a lot of stress, but the successful entrepreneurs that I knew seemed to thrive on making decisions and living by how well their business provided a product or service to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have my own business I do think that being an entrepreneur is great. It&#8217;s all I ever wanted to do and I&#8217;m very happy with how things have gone.<\/p>\n<h2>Entrepreneur Depression<\/h2>\n<p>But I do notice that for some entrepreneurs that it&#8217;s not all roses and candy. I definitely have a few times when I&#8217;m frustrated with the ways things are going. You get that in all aspects of life and with every job (I would assume). It&#8217;s for sure something that happens to entrepreneurs. The stress levels can get high and there can be really high highs, but also some low lows.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite blogs that I try to read whenever there is a new post is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PsyBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of the blog scours the psychology journals looking for interesting cases and studies. He puts them together to create very interesting and very useful posts.<\/p>\n<p>One of his recent posts was on depression &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2014\/09\/depression-alleviated-by-feeling-connected-to-a-group.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Depression Alleviated By Feeling Connected To A Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The key in the finding was not just that it&#8217;s important to be in a group, but to feel part of that group or identifying with that group. The author said it was partially about referring to whatever group you join as &#8220;us&#8221; or &#8220;we&#8221; instead of referring to the group as &#8220;they&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few ideas for local groups you can join.<\/p>\n<h2>Sports League<\/h2>\n<p>I love to play golf. If you&#8217;ve read a few of the posts here on the blog in the past you probably noticed that. So for me a great sports league to join is a golf league. I joined one a couple years ago. I didn&#8217;t know anyone in the league and was paired up with a team. The experience was great and I always looked forward to it every week during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>I had to leave the league the next two years due to moving, but will be back again next summer probably with an entirely new team. It&#8217;s a chance to meet new people both on the team and in the league.<\/p>\n<p>You can join any league for any sport. Most communities have them and even if you&#8217;re a little rusty you can usually find a group that will help you get back up to speed.<\/p>\n<p>These leagues are mostly about the camaraderie\u00a0anyway instead of the sport.<\/p>\n<h2>Games League<\/h2>\n<p>There are games leagues around most communities too. They&#8217;re similar to sports leagues &#8211; things like darts, bean bag toss and lots of other fun activities.<\/p>\n<h2>Professionals Group<\/h2>\n<p>In my community it&#8217;s called the Young Professionals and also the Chamber of Commerce. But there are lots of other groups with different niches. Most allow you to come to a meeting or two to see what it&#8217;s like and if you get a good feeling you can join and start getting involved and being part of something.<\/p>\n<h2>Fitness Class<\/h2>\n<p>I have friends that do this. Some people I would have never thought would like fitness have joined things like CrossFit and Hot Yoga. There are all kinds of things. There is something about a hard workout that brings people together. Plus you get in great shape while being part of a group.<\/p>\n<h2>Band<\/h2>\n<p>This could probably go in the last catch-all category here, but I know a few people that are in bands or music groups that get together and play. I think it&#8217;s cool and there always seems to be a real feeling of belonging when you are in a band or even if you get together with a couple people or even just one person to play tunes and kick around a bit.<\/p>\n<h2>Lots Of Other Options<\/h2>\n<p>There are countless things you can join in your community. I have a few friends\u00a0that I&#8217;m going to get together this fall for hunting season. You could have people that you walk with or bike with each week. Maybe it&#8217;s crafts. Maybe it&#8217;s even a local group that competes in trivia groups.<\/p>\n<p>My now-wife and I went to a dance class put on by a local group. I can&#8217;t remember their name, but it was fun and I could see why people would want to join and be part of something.<\/p>\n<p>I think you could even start something of your own. That&#8217;s probably if you know what you want, which is great. But if you don&#8217;t have an idea of what you would like then try a few things. You don&#8217;t have to love the first thing or even the first few things. You only need to find one thing that trips your trigger and you&#8217;ll be likely to enjoy that group, which will lead to that feeling of belonging.<\/p>\n<h2>Introverts<\/h2>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re an introvert like me then you&#8217;ve probably come up with excuses on why you can&#8217;t join any of these groups.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve struggled with that too in the past, but found a way around it. Read this <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/tip-introverts-networking-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Being part of a group is a great way to feel good no matter what you&#8217;re doing. But if you&#8217;re an entrepreneur and you&#8217;re feeling isolated due to the nature of your work then joining a group could be crucial to avoiding depression and even sadness on a less severe level. Hopefully the ideas above can spark an idea or two for something you can do to get out and be part of a group.<\/p>\n<p>It can lead to better feelings for you, which means you&#8217;ll be happier and your business will probably be better off as a result. And that usually makes any business owner happy.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, it&#8217;s not enough to just\u00a0<em>join<\/em> a group. 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