Today I want to go over a topic that has kind of been something that's been on my mind and I
really want to share with people because in this day and time where so much emphasis is being
put on productivity. It's the society we live in right? It's all about being productive, producing,
getting things done, moving towards your goals and that's awesome. Especially when you are
able to have success, able to start to move forward but a lot of the times what happens
is we actually don't balance ourselves properly and what happens is we end up feeling burned out
and burned out can really just be summarized by just a loss in motivation. Feeling tired,
feeling sluggish, not wanting to get out of bed and work on all of your goals.
That's when you know you've kind of gone too far and my goal for this video is to share number one
what you can do when you're feeling burned out and then number two how you can go about
preventing burnout in the future and this is something I realized. Especially with the whole
chain of events the last year and a half with the pandemic and everything going on.
A lot of people are forced to be inside more often and if you know you have the ability to work from
home you're a freelancer or you're working remotely you know that it's a lot easier to
put in those extra hours if you're just home more often and that can really lead to a burnout. Which
ultimately causes you more harm than good and this is the common misconception a lot of people
have especially when they're new to freelancing, working from home, or just being their own boss.
It's that they put so much emphasis on just getting things done and jam-packing everything
that they don't take the proper time to actually recharge and then what happens is before they know
it they're burnt out and then that's when they need even longer to kind of recuperate and come
back and feel fresh. So the first thing you can start to do is when you're feeling burned out,
what you want to do is you want to just be able to kind of analyze this. Accept this and then take a
step back when you're taking that step back you want to look at are you properly taking care of
yourself. So from getting enough sleep is vital to be able to function for your brain, to literally
work properly you need to have enough sleep. As well as your diet a lot of times if you're burned
out and you're just working too much you're just so busy with whatever it is you're doing
your diet is going to suffer right? Because you're not going to be getting the proper nutrition in
your body, not going to be able to create the right type of environment where you feel good
it's going to be really just actually a detriment to you. So not only your sleep not only your diet
but I'm sure you guessed this next one exercise right? So taking a break here and there throughout
your day and making sure that you do it at least you know three to five times a week ideally
will really help you avoid that burnout and it'll actually help boost your energy levels.
Believe it or not it's one of those things where you don't think that exercising and just getting
that energy out would really result in more energy and feeling less burned out but that's really what
it does because your body is meant to move. So a lot of times as well when you're burnt out
you're not getting exercise, you're just in the same spot and then that is all kind of a recipe
for disaster. When then you throw in the stress of work and life things that just pop up it's so
easy to become overwhelmed, burned out, and then just really lose motivation of where you want to
go. So the next step once you've taken that step back you want to also analyze where you're at.
Analyze what you're putting into your body and then you want to make some time for yourself
to actually get outside to reconnect with nature because once again when you're burned out you're
inside most of the time. So just going outside whether it's going on a walk, going on a camping
trip for the weekend, just something to kind of reconnect you back with just the natural rhythm
of nature and going to bed when it gets dark out. Waking up when it's light out and that can really
help reset your biological clock as well as your spirit because you're going to feel a lot better
coming back to work and less burned out when you take the time for yourself and you do all of those
things. Now that's kind of the first part that's if you're feeling burned out and now I want to
get into how you can manage this actively and prevent it in the future and what I found is
in my own experience as well as talking to a lot of different freelancers and business owners and
people that just have a normal nine-to-five. It's that they don't always take the time
to really look at their day-to-day schedule and see where their energy is going and making sure
that they're only focusing on things that are moving the needle forward and what I mean by that
is it's so often that people are spending time on just busywork tasks that don't really do anything
for them and that don't get them ahead and the way you can do this is I love this 'Eisenhower matrix'
it's called and you can prioritize your different tasks based on how urgent they are and then how
not urgent they are and based on that urgency. You can begin to organize your calendar and your
schedule around that and once you're able to start to look at what is moving the needle in your life,
in your business, in your career. What is not moving the needle and what is taking up your
time? You can then prioritize and it really is about working smarter and not just working harder.
You don't just want to be busy you want to be productive. So that doesn't mean
to not work at all and to just work an hour a day. What it means is that you're putting the
time into analyzing what makes the most sense to really spend the time on that day because when
you're in control of your time, when you're in control of your body, all of that can start to
come together and you're not going to feel burned out. Especially when you have control over these
things instead of letting all these different areas have control over you because you did not
put a check and balance system in place. So it's really something I encourage people to comment
down below if you felt burned out before if you're feeling burned out right now. I want to open up
this discussion because it's so easy to talk about all the awesome successes but another part of just
this journey and what I want to do on Youtube and just share my journey with people. Is sharing the
challenges I've overcome to help people overcome those same challenges and we can really all just
build each other up and become a community here to further advance ourselves down the line and if
you're working from home once again really go back listen to my suggestions. Implement those things
into your sleep schedule into your diet into your exercise and then look at your day-to-day schedule
and your hour-to-hour schedule. What you're putting your energy into every day
and take a budget take account of where your time and your energy is going into and if you're just
being a consumer and you're just lost on social media platforms, Netflix for hours upon hours.
Take account of that because that is also going to be contributing to you feeling burnt out. So it
really is a balancing act here where you want to put in enough effort. Where you know you're living
up to your full potential but you're not gonna be biting yourself in the butt because you didn't
plan this out, you went too hard, you worked 15 hours a day for three weeks straight, and then
now you need weeks to recover and you just don't feel like yourself. So if you're not burned out
that's awesome practice the prevention models and if you are just try to think about what you can do
to get out of that phase to re-nourish yourself and get back into the game. However, if you don't
feel burnt out remember that it's always a good time to implement these practices so you can avoid
that and stay consistent for the long term. So if that was helpful please hit the like button,
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come. Once again my name is Paul with Profitable Freelancer and I look forward to your success.