Business from Bed: The 6-Step Comeback Plan to Get Yourself Working Again After a Health Crisis

Checkout Your Cart Price. Description Details Customer Reviews When people are remanded to their beds or their homes by a prolonged health crisis it can become a time of deep reflection, prompting a person to reevaluate assumptions that have formed the basis for many life and business decisions. As one moves away from a time of ill health and pain, back towards wellness, it is easy to forget what you said you would do differently and gallop back to business as usual. The 6 - step comeback plan outlined in Business from Bed will help the reader combat this normal tendency.

Joan Friedlander herself diagnosed with a chronic disease outlines steps that are designed to help the reader successfully integrate their emotional, social and physical healing with the practical aspects of rebuilding their business. Specifically, steps one, three and five guide the recovering entrepreneur to remain mindful and patient as they experience the normal ebb and flow of physical, mental and emotional recovery. By the time October had rolled around, I was a complete wreck.

Nonetheless, as soon as I could, I returned to my job in my dual role as store manager and regional training manager for a national bookstore chain.

On one such occasion I was so symptomatic that I had to run to the bathroom every 15 minutes. I remember resting my head on the steering wheel of the company van as I drove 60 miles to yet another store; I was exhausted but I kept going. Between dealing with my illness and juggling the three roles, my ability to keep up with my store manager duties was severely diminished.

I quit the job I had loved so much just seven short months later. For the next six years, I did my best to regain the same level of personal fulfillment that I experienced when I was a training store manager, while still learning to manage life with this illness. In those six years I moved through five different jobs, three of which were interrupted by short-term disability leaves lasting anywhere from two weeks to two months.

When I learned about coaching, a light bulb went off. This was something I could do!

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Plus, as the owner of my own company, I could set my own hours, make more money per hour worked, and I had full control over my working environment. These criteria remain as important today as they did 14 years ago when I started working for myself. The tell-tale symptoms associated with my illness have been in remission for over nine years, since early In , the day after I returned from a short trip to Lisbon, Portugal, I was hit with salmonella poisoning.

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