The Best Hobbies To Destress With As A Business Owner

If you own a business, your days are going to be filled to the brim with various admin tasks. And that can be one of the most stressful to-do lists in the whole world! After all, you’re reaching for the stars here and have a long way to go before you can reach them. Which means you need to have something happy and wholesome to come home to at the end of the day. So why not pick up a nice, relaxing hobby? Here’s a list of the best activities to choose from for someone in your position. 

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Make a Thriving Garden Space

If you’ve got any kind of outdoor space at your disposal, why not cultivate the soil to grow a thriving garden in? Even if you’ve just got a window sill and a spare window box in a cupboard somewhere, get some soil to go in it and then throw some seeds down. 

Water them, expose them to sunlight, and watch as they grow ready-to-eat fruits and vegetables right in your own kitchen. Or if you’d prefer, you can just get some pretty flowers climbing up the window panes, reminding you of your hard work. 

Try Out Sketching/Painting

Sketching to your heart’s content, or getting outside and painting with a pochade box, are two great ways to unwind after a hard day or week. Not only does it get you out and about in the great outdoors, but it puts your hands to more creative use than just using a keyboard. 

When you can come away with something beautiful of your own in hand, you’ll feel a lot more satisfied with your creative pursuits. It makes a real change to just filing virtual data into a cloud server and then never seeing it again! 

Take Up an Instrument

Playing an instrument is a great way to destress simply because we’re primed to love music. When you’re the one making the music in the first place, it makes it all the sweeter on the ears. Yes, your first few weeks of plucking at the guitar won’t be great, but keeping at it will net you another life skill under your belt. 

Buy a Mountain Bike

Finally, make sure you try out something physical every now and then! And if you’re not one for going on long walks (because you’re a little too busy!), buy a mountain bike instead. 

Biking is a good way to still get out and use your energy, but without exhausting yourself or getting too sweaty once you’re home again. Being able to ride a bike is a great physical skill to have, and can even help you master other physical skills by flexing that region of your brain – wouldn’t that be useful for business? 

If you’re a business owner, you’ll need a hobby to keep you on the straight and narrow. Use ideas like these to help you destress once you’ve stopped being the boss for the day! 

About the author

Petra Monaco is an artist, author, and professional problem solver for creatives, rebels, and multi-passionates.

She is here to help you remove frustration from your life and achieve your creative dreams with more ease and confidence.

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