Managing Mental Health: What High Performance Personalities Can Do to Manage Their Wellbeing

Sarah Davies-Robertson
4 min readFeb 2, 2023

Written by Farhan Shahzad and Sarah Davies-Robertson

Photo by averie woodard on Unsplash

Doing what you love and loving what you do should not come at a cost. Business owners are high performance individuals that are used to managing everything. Such individuals are precisely the type of people to conscientiously manage their mental health. Because positive emotions lead to further positive emotions and are linked to heightened creativity, solution-focused capabilities, and enhanced lateral thinking, focusing on wellness is key to successfully managing a business.

We will explore why nutrition, sleep and play is an essential part of running a business.

Stress and Burnout: A Modern Phenomenon

Occupational stress is on the rise. The risk of burnout as a result of the pandemic, modern working conditions, and isolation is certainly increasing. While business owners have faced all of those things, they are also adept at managing and maintaining mental wellbeing. We look at some of the things business owners can embrace to manage their mental health in turbulent times.

Business owners, like all business owners, are at a greater risk of burnout. Burnout, or acute occupational stress, is a risk factor for all high-performance…

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Sarah Davies-Robertson

British lifestyle blogger, researcher, journalist and PhD candidate in occupational health and medicine. Follow @sarah_tottle on instagram.