- Ugh, this is bad, this is very, very bad.
I have so many people
setting up these fake Instagram accounts,
and they pretend to be me and all social media accounts.
Make sure, if you're a fan of my work,
go to Instagram and follow me at their log.
That's the official account, that's the real me.
The other accounts, they could be fans,
with good intention, they set that up,
or they could be just people
who are using my name, pretending to be me.
But my official Instagram account is @Danlok.
So if you wanna follow me on Instagram,
and I don't see why you wouldn't
wanna follow me on Instagram,
make sure you go there at their log.
(uplifting music).
Now let's talk about, how do you bounce back from burnout?
In my daily activity
with the pace that we are going in business,
when I'm managing so many companies, and initiatives,
and all these different things.
So when it comes to burnout, do I get burnout?
From time-to-time, but not very often.
Not often at all.
So I wanna share with you something, maybe today,
something practical, some strategies,
and some ideas that could help you
if you are experiencing burnout
or you've experienced burnout in the past.
So comment below and share with me, how did that feel?
When maybe you get overwhelmed or your are overworked
and you feel, "Oh man, I'm just (sighing) exhausted."
And you feel that you are, not just exhausted,
you feel that your mental bandwidth,
you're just like (gurgling), you can't work any harder,
you can't take on more data,
and you just don't feel like you wanna do anything.
So when, in the past,
I used to get burnout more often
because I was doing everything myself.
In the beginning of my business career,
it was just me, on my own, I was a sole entrepreneur.
So it was very, very challenging.
I was the guy that's doing the customer service,
I was handling all the email
and I was selling, I was delivering,
I was trying to do the bookkeeping, which it was horrible.
I was the one that's meeting with people.
Like I was doing everything.
So it's very, very easy to get burnout
when you are doing too much.
As you grow, you'll have more people joining your team
and you're expanding your team,
then you'll be able to delegate a lot of task,
that maybe you're not very good at.
You wanna focus on things that you are brilliant at,
what I call your zone of genius.
So what happens is this.
As your company grows, that you are able to,
and you may not have this massive team overnight,
but one-at-a-time, you're adding people to your team
and then you'll be able to delegate first,
the stuff that you are horrible at.
Now, the stuff that you're horrible at,
they're not easy to find people to help you out
and for you delegate some of these tasks to them.
Why?
Because you're horrible at them!
There are a lotta people, who are even average,
they'll do a better job than you, right?
I was horrible at bookkeeping.
It was not (chuckling) difficult
to find someone that could outperform in that area.
And then later on, you will start delegating
even things that you are average at.
And then later on, things that you are actually good at
and at the end, you only wanna focus on the things
that only you can do, as a leader, as an entrepreneur,
what you are brilliant, what you're brilliant at.
So what happens is if you operate most of the time,
from like your brilliance,
you operate in the zone of genius,
you will experience a lot less burnout.
Here's why.
Because usually, that's what you're very good,
like you're world-class at doing those things,
and usually you love doing those things.
And usually because you're good at it,
you love doing it, and that's why you get better at it
and that's why you become world-class.
And when you can do that,
you don't experience burnout that much.
The thing I think about it, the last time I experienced
any kind of burnout, I don't even remember.
We have so much to do,
there's so many decisions I need to make,
but it just, it doesn't happen often.
I'm trying to think, it doesn't happen often, at all.
And when I do experience maybe fatigue,
or I was just tired, I would get tired too, of course,
I would just take some rest,
usually a good night's sleep, I'm good.
But if you experience burnout,
so I would challenge you to look at what you do.
How can you focus more on your zone of genius
so you don't experience burnout, as much?
Another thing that you could do,
you need to find something to help you,
it could be a hobby, it could be an escape,
it could be something that's healthy.
Maybe you workout, go on vacation,
you might want to go golfing,
you might wanna go fishing, you might wanna go swimming.
But I think you need to find something that works for you.
And everybody's a little bit different.
Everybody's a little bit different.
For me, I enjoy movies as you know, you're a fan of mine.
I enjoy watching a movie,
so I would go watch a movie, maybe with Jennie.
And that, to me, is a very simple thing
that I could do to recharge my battery a few hours.
A good night's sleep, awesome.
That's also a simple thing that,
I don't, myself, I don't really need to get away
where, oh, I need to get away for like three weeks
and to recharge my battery, so I don't get burnout.
It doesn't happen to me that often, personally,
but that's just me.
But maybe your body, your physique,
your mental bandwidth, everyone is a little bit different.
But I love what I do, I enjoy what I do,
I love the people around me, I love who I work with
who I'm able to impact a lot on my team.
So that doesn't bother me at all,
so I don't get burnout from that.
So, next time, when you experience burnout,
instead of just solving the problem
and try to distract yourself,
find some activities that you would feel recharged,
feel relaxed, and it will get you back in the zone.
And then what the thing of this
is spend most of the time working with the zone of genius,
what you're brilliant at.
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