Stress and worry may be a part of the job for entrepreneurs, but new research has found that entrepreneurs also say they have many other positive experiences at work.
In particular, entrepreneurs say they are more likely than other workers to report that they learned or did something new in the past day.? Entrepreneurs were also more likely than other workers to say they experienced enjoyment at work. ??
"The same intellectual curiosity and energy needed to start and run a business?may also drive entrepreneurs to seek out and take advantage of opportunities to learn or do something interesting or exciting on a regular basis," said Dan Witters, Sangeeta Agrawal and Alyssa Brown of Gallup, which conducted the research. "Entrepreneurs also have creative and strategic control of their business and manage their own schedule to execute on their business plan. Thus, they may have more flexibility to pursue interesting and exciting learning opportunities and activities than other workers."
Those benefits, however, did not stop entrepreneurs from experiencing some challenges as well. In particular, the researchers found that entrepreneurs experienced more worry and stress than other workers.
"One possible explanation for these differences may be that the personal and financial risks involved in starting and running a business may lead to additional worry and stress," the Gallup researchers said. "For example, entrepreneurs are significantly more likely than other workers to be?uninsured and to struggle to afford necessary health care and medicine, which may cause them to have higher levels of stress and worry."
Despite that increased stress, entrepreneurs are still more optimistic than other workers. Thirty percent of entrepreneurs say they are optimistic about their futures while just 25 percent of workers share their sentiment.?
"This elevated optimism,?combined with communities that foster an entrepreneurial culture, may lead entrepreneurs to take business risks,?create jobs, launch new products, and innovate," the researchers said.
The research was based on the responses of 273,175 interviews as a part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. ?
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Facebook: can't live with it, can't live without it. Between spam, privacy issues, and trash in your news feed, Facebook can get pretty annoying, and other networks like Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn can be just as bad. As long as you're wasting all your time on social sites, why not fix them up so they work like you want them to? Here are ten ways to do just that. 
Staying up to date on what your friends are doing is great...until your networks of choice start bombarding you with notifications. "Johnny commented on your status! Stacy tagged you in a photo! Billy bit you and now you're a vampire!" The best way to deal with this is to edit your notification settings directly, which you can easily do in Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. You can also turn your Facebook notifications into a daily digest, prune your phone's notifications so they don't bug you, and even make a smarter notification system for more fine-grained customization. Of course, you could just turn them off completely, too?there's nothing wrong with that.
The other kind of spam you get on social networks?besides the notification spam?is the spam caused by malicious links and other fake stories. The easiest way to avoid them? Don't click on anything that says any variation of "You won't believe this!" or "Win a free iPad!" or anything vaguely pornographic (and spread the message to your friends while you're at it). If you're following (or being followed by) any spam accounts on Twitter, you can also use a tool like Nest Unclutterer to clean them up.
Your social networks aren't the only ones scrambling to grab your data and attention?the third-party apps connected to them are, too. Heck, Facebook even tricks you into ignoring app permissions. The best way to clean up those app permissions (and delete the apps you don't need) is to use a service like MyPermissions, which will lead you to the necessary settings for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Dropbox, Instagram, and more. It'll even remind you once a month to check your permissions and clean them up, which is pretty awesome in our book.
Having a ton of Facebook friends isn't necessarily a good thing. Not only can it create a lot of clutter, but it's even a characteristic of unhappy people. For a cleaner social feed, regularly unfriend and unfollow people to keep things trim. For the really bad offenders (like your horrible ex), go a step further and block them completely. Only follow people that you're actually friends with or are otherwise useful, and you'll be much better off?though we won't blame you if you want to track who unfriends you, too.
For those that you don't want to unfriend, keep them around but divide them into lists. Not only will it keep certain people from seeing all your info, but it makes your feeds smaller and more organized. You can do it on Facebook, Twitter, and on Google+, and even use other services like Facebook's Smart Lists or Formulists for Twitter to automate the process. If you want a good list to start off with, you can always follow us and our writers on Facebook and Twitter with one click.
The default experience on Facebook and Twitter isn't made for users, it's made for the companies?so why not use something better for you? Twitter clients are always better than the default site, and we've got favorites for Windows, OS X, Android, and the iPhone to try out. You can also make Facebook infinitely better with one simple browser extension, not to mention combine multiple networks with apps like Flipboard.
Maybe you try to keep a presence on all networks, or maybe you've combined them into a piecemeal social network for yourself. Either way, you probably want to post some of your updates or photos to multiple networks at the same time, and luckily, that's pretty easy to do?most of the time. Posting from one network to another doesn't always work perfectly, but it can make your life a lot easier when using Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. And, if you want to include any other networks, IFTTT probably has you covered.
Let's be honest: no matter how much you love them, you probably spend a little too much time on social networking sites like Facebook. You can fix this problem by limiting your visits to time-wasting sites, and using tools like Facebook Nanny to help you get back to work. It's also worth looking into the worthwhile uses of these networks?for example, use LinkedIn to increase your hirability, or use Twitter for instant customer support and up-to-the minute updates on stuff that matters.
Keeping in touch with your friends is awesome...until they decide to start preaching their political beliefs, or start pouring their heart and soul out on their Facebook page. You guys have shared your favorite ways to deal with uncomfortable Facebook discussions before, but it ever gets to be too much, you can go all out and hide those updates altogether. Extensions like Unpolitic.me will replace those political updates with cat pictures, and Social Fixer will let you hide any kind of update you want. Our tips on hiding tech rumors and movie spoilers can also translate to just about anything, too, so you should have your bases covered on every social network.
It's no secret that the biggest social annoyance is actually keeping your data (and your updates) private. Everyone's trying to track you on the web, and they're constantly adding new ways to do it. Check out our always up-to-date guide on managing your Facebook privacy to figure out how to stop it, or use a site like AdjustYourPrivacy.com to keep up with your privacy settings on all your networks. Alternatively, you can ditch those privacy-invading sites for something better (or at least tone down your Facebook usage to just personal communication).
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