Name: This CEO says your personal health is key to your company's health
Uploaded: 2022-10-07
Duration: 3 min 5 s
Description: James Edward Murray, CEO of Therify, shares his healthy lifestyle habits, tips and tricks.

<p>don't feel bad about taking care of yourself. Your wellness is directly correlated to the wellness of your company. My biggest source of being able to de stress this meditation. I have meditated for over 9000 minutes over the past three years. And so for me, meditation is a source of calm that allows me to be present. It eases anxiety and moments of anxiety. Meditation has a, a cumulative effect. Right? So it's very important that you do it as often as frequently as you can. And so for me, as a Every morning, right, I try to wake up at a decent time and meditate for at least 10 minutes every morning. And so that's something that I've tried to do in my meditation practice and speaking to other founders who have been very successful. There are a few founders who specifically suggested to me that I reduced my caffeine intake that I stopped eating pork, that I stopped eating red meat and also couple that with exercise. And so I also try to get At least 30 minutes of exercising every day over the course of doing this for about three months. I really did start noticing the difference with the reduction of caffeine. I found myself to be less jittery, right and more calm in my interactions. And then with the reduction of meat, um, I just found myself being able to get the same amount of sleep but to sustain more energy throughout the day. And so the dietary change has been really important for me just in terms of maximizing the amount of energy I have on a day to day basis, it is incredible how much time you can waste by looking at your phone, so just put it away right? Like the text, the call, they're not going anywhere for me, it's working in a different room than my phone, so I'm not picking it up and looking at instagram for five minutes at a time. I'm also putting my phone outside of the room when I sleep at night. The other thing that I think is really helpless time blocking. Set aside time to answer emails, Set aside time for meetings. That focus time is gonna be really important in terms of your productivity, otherwise you'll end up with whiplash and with a bunch of projects that are half done. Being intentional about how I spend my time has been the biggest change for me as a ceo, it's really hard to see my friends, I'm going to see my family, you know, I used to spontaneously be able to just call people up and and get together and now I have to be very intentional about about scheduling that time. Someone gave me some advice very early on in the founding of my company. I used to feel really bad about taking time off to go to the gym or do things for myself and what this person told me is, they said James, you you are the product right? As the ceo you are the product and so by investing in yourself, you are also investing in the success of the company. My ability to show up and be effective to be productive, to be a good leader has a direct correlation to the outcomes we see. And so I realized that what I'm investing in myself, I'm also investing in my company.</p>

James Edward Murray, CEO of Therify, shares his healthy lifestyle habits, tips and tricks.

This CEO says your personal health is key to your company's health

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CEO says personal health is key to company's health

Therify CEO shares his healthy lifestyle habits, tips, and tricks.

don't feel bad about taking care of yourself. Your wellness is directly correlated to the wellness of your company. My biggest source of being able to de stress this meditation. I have meditated for over 9000 minutes over the past three years. And so for me, meditation is a source of calm that allows me to be present. It eases anxiety and moments of anxiety. Meditation has a, a cumulative effect. Right? So it's very important that you do it as often as frequently as you can. And so for me, as a Every morning, right, I try to wake up at a decent time and meditate for at least 10 minutes every morning. And so that's something that I've tried to do in my meditation practice and speaking to other founders who have been very successful. There are a few founders who specifically suggested to me that I reduced my caffeine intake that I stopped eating pork, that I stopped eating red meat and also couple that with exercise. And so I also try to get At least 30 minutes of exercising every day over the course of doing this for about three months. I really did start noticing the difference with the reduction of caffeine. I found myself to be less jittery, right and more calm in my interactions. And then with the reduction of meat, um, I just found myself being able to get the same amount of sleep but to sustain more energy throughout the day. And so the dietary change has been really important for me just in terms of maximizing the amount of energy I have on a day to day basis, it is incredible how much time you can waste by looking at your phone, so just put it away right? Like the text, the call, they're not going anywhere for me, it's working in a different room than my phone, so I'm not picking it up and looking at instagram for five minutes at a time. I'm also putting my phone outside of the room when I sleep at night. The other thing that I think is really helpless time blocking. Set aside time to answer emails, Set aside time for meetings. That focus time is gonna be really important in terms of your productivity, otherwise you'll end up with whiplash and with a bunch of projects that are half done. Being intentional about how I spend my time has been the biggest change for me as a ceo, it's really hard to see my friends, I'm going to see my family, you know, I used to spontaneously be able to just call people up and and get together and now I have to be very intentional about about scheduling that time. Someone gave me some advice very early on in the founding of my company. I used to feel really bad about taking time off to go to the gym or do things for myself and what this person told me is, they said James, you you are the product right? As the ceo you are the product and so by investing in yourself, you are also investing in the success of the company. My ability to show up and be effective to be productive, to be a good leader has a direct correlation to the outcomes we see. And so I realized that what I'm investing in myself, I'm also investing in my company.