- Do you start your day with a coffee?
Well, you could be putting your business
and your mindset at risk.
I've lived in Melbourne most of my life.
It has the best coffee in the world,
and this is backed up according to a survey by Booking.com.
And like most other Melburnians, I enjoyed my coffee.
It's part of a start-up culture for entrepreneurs
to rely on stimulants like coffee
to get us through the day
and provide us with the momentum that we need
to push through major projects on little sleep.
But for me, personally, it came at a cost.
I lived with an agonizing fatigue
that plagued me for years.
And what was a once in a week treat at a cafe,
suddenly became a daily ritual after experiencing jet lag.
And I began to suffer with depression,
dizziness, and extreme fatigue
that would cause me to take two naps during the day
just to get through it.
It was completely and utterly debilitating.
What did I do to try and fix this issue?
Well, I poured more coffee on it,
thinking if I drank more,
it would give me another boost of energy,
to only get that boost and hit those crashing lows.
I was stuck in a cycle, like many of us are.
When more than seven doctors
couldn't work out what was going wrong,
I experimented on myself,
and after three years of painstakingly removing foods
from my diet, I discovered, to my dismay,
that I'm highly allergic to caffeine.
And I know I'm not the only one.
But even if you don't have an allergy,
there are serious health risks that may cost you more
than just your business and a breakdown.
There are a whole lot of studies linking caffeine
to high blood pressure, insomnia, headaches,
indigestion, heart attacks, anxiety
and many more conditions
you probably wouldn't first associate it with.
Remember, after all, caffeine is a drug.
The personally shocking revelation I discovered
was that one to two cups of coffee per day
was enough for me to experience anxiety.
And instead of realizing it was caffeine,
I blamed my business,
which almost cost me a lifetime's worth of work
because I was ready to throw it all in at one point.
Which made no sense to me at the time.
The blame was completely misplaced
as was my anxiety and fears
because of a simple stimulant like caffeine
that we don't have a second thought.
Now, it might not impact on you as much as it does me,
and I hope not,
but do you know what caffeine is really doing to you,
your sleep, your ability to focus
and sustain your energy throughout the day?
If you don't, I dare you to take this easy challenge.
Keep a diary for the next week,
and observe the ebbs and flows of your energy.
Track your reactions,
sleepless night, anxiety, increased heart rate,
that you mistakenly blame as work pressure.
Caffeine wasn't only killing me psychologically,
it was killing my business and as entrepreneurs,
you know, that we all have a propensity
to guzzle down coffee to keep us going.
The question is, what's the real cost to you?
I challenge you to find out.
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