How to avoid burnout as a streamer is what we're gonna be talking about today.
I've experienced burnout a few times in my content creation career.
And lately I've been able to go ahead and focus every time
that I experienced a burnout.
I learned something new.
To be able to help me overcome it.
And I've been able to be consistent now for quite some time.
And I wanted today to go ahead and share some of the things that
I've done to be able to help me avoid burnout as much as possible.
And especially since I have a lot of new streamers who watch my content
help you guys along your journey.
So that way you don't burn.
So the very first thing my tip number one is to go ahead and focus on the why.
And the how, and when I say focus on the why, it's very important that
you always come back to, why did you start streaming, why did you start
this per this journey of concentration to share your message, to be able to
engage to be able to inspire people.
You have to really go ahead and establish and remind yourself of that.
Why now, if you don't have a, why I talk about this and streaming
branding foundations to teach you, how do you develop that?
Why, how do you develop that purpose?
To be able to stream.
That's number one, whenever I felt the need of wanting to stop or
wanting to stop creating content.
I always came back to my why, why am I doing this?
Because I want people to have freedom.
I want people to be able to grow.
I want people to be able to learn how to utilize the tools, to be able
to create the life that they want doing what it is that they love.
Right.
So I always come back that I, and that gives me energy to fire me.
Number two is that don't make streaming a part of your life.
Don't make streaming your life.
And early on, I didn't really acknowledge this and I just made streaming
the all and be all and end all.
It's all I did.
It's all I thought about.
It consumed my whole life.
And instead, what I started doing recently is just making
streaming a part of my routine.
Right?
Not making it a priority, but looking at my schedule, looking at
your schedule and understanding.
What is gonna be realistic for me to be able to stream more consistently
without kind of avoiding myself to say, I have to stream every single day I
have to be doing this every single day.
Just, it allowed me to be able to have more peace of mind, to know
that, you know I'm gonna stream when I can, based on the things that
I gotta take care of in my life.
And the things in my life are always gonna be priority over streaming.
So I think that that's super important to make streaming a part of your
life and not to make it your life.
Number three is to go ahead and stay physically active.
I think this is super important when you are mentally active and
physically active, you release endorphins that make you happy.
Right?
So I make it a priority every single day to make sure that I sweat for at least
30 minutes, that can be a full workout.
That can just be a jump rope that can just.
And doing any kind of a physical activity, whether you enjoy walking, riding on
a bike, all these things in here, I think it's super important for you to
be active to avoid that kind of burnout because burnout is caused by stress.
It's caused by overwhelm.
It's caused by feeling like you're not enough.
And when you can focus on your physical self I think it makes it a lot easier
and this is something that I went.
And focused on early on was to be active.
And I made it part of my daily routine combining with that
step number four is to eat well.
I think it's super important that you eat well.
And to avoid that kind of burnout when you eat the right things and you're
eating good you're gonna have more energy.
You're gonna have more creativity.
You're gonna just feel better overall.
And burnout is a, is a big contribution.
To feelings and the way you feel so eating, I make sure that I eat the right
things every single day, not every day that I eat perfectly, but for the most
part, I try to eat as good as possible because I understand that what you eat
is also gonna determine how you feel and how you respond and how you look
and everything that's correlated to it.
So that's something that I started to do as well.
And with that, it's about like getting proper sleep.
You gotta get proper sleep because if you're exhausted and you're
tired and you don't have the.
You're gonna burn out why?
Because you're pushing your body to the limit.
So it's super important that you get the right amount of rest that
you need to be able to make sure you can sustain the activities
that you're doing every single day.
I make it a priority to get seven hours of sleep every single night.
Now I know not everybody has luxury to be able to do that, but.
Try to be more consistent in your sleep.
Try to be well rested, well rested before you start your day, because
that's gonna help you be able to have a clear mind, be more creative.
And at the end of the day, remember like when you lack sleep, when you
lack proper nutrition, when you're just constantly in a, in a sitting down
position for hours and hours and hours and hours it's very hard for you to be
motivated and driven to be able to do the things that you want to be able to.
And this is another tip here that I talk about pretty frequently
is to go ahead and stream less.
I say this over and over and over again that, you know, streaming is a plus.
It's not a requirement.
I think I believe that, you know, focusing on creating content,
which is not easier because live streaming is a little bit easier.
You just gotta go live.
But at the end of the day, when you focus on creating content,
it's at a more of your pace.
You have more vari ability to stop and go to stop and go.
But.
Don't stream every single day.
You know, because that's just gonna require you to put out
so much energy, so much stress.
And this is what I say.
If you can stream stream once a week, two times a week, max, you know,
because at the end of the day like I said, your growth happens when you're
offline, not when you're online and.
And reducing the amount of streaming that you do is gonna give you a
little bit more time to have some more creativity, to be able to think about
different things that you want to do on your stream to be able to work on
your stream, to be able to grow on it.
But if you're just streaming every single day, and then you're spending
time every single day working on your stream, you're gonna burn out.
And that's one of the things you want to avoid.
Cuz when I first started streaming, that's all I thought about.
That's all I did.
Every single day.
And it, it didn't lead to any more success.
But when I actually reduced my streaming time to three times a week to two
times a week, I saw more success.
Not only more energy into my streams, not only more people tuning in because
they're not getting me every single day.
But I just saw more success.
Sets when I reduced the amount of streaming that I actually did.
You know, and it's, it's important that you plan breaks and you announce them.
This is super important.
There's a big myth going around where it's just like, oh, if you,
if you just take a break, you're gonna lose all your followers.
You're gonna lose all your viewership.
And you do lose a little bit.
It's totally fine.
Right.
But when you announce it early on, you're able to go ahead
and let your audience know.
And when you let your audience know ahead of time, and I don't mean announce it,
like, Hey, you gonna, you're gonna take a break for two weeks starting tomorrow.
That's not really announcing it.
And, and you want to continue to announce it.
Over a course of a period of time.
Hey, don't forget guys from August 18th, all the way to August, you know, 29th,
I'm gonna be gone cause I'm gonna getting married, you know, I'm gonna be traveling.
So all of that's going on and you just continue to go ahead and address
that because I think it's super important that you plan outbreaks.
Even if you're not going anywhere.
It's good to plan a.
Even for your stream, just to give yourself some time to say, you know
what, this week I can actually focus on the things that I gotta focus on.
I can focus on building my stream.
I can focus on doing things inside of the community.
Taking a break from streaming is okay, because at the end
of the day, you're human.
Right.
And when you people realize that you're human and you need
to take a break it's okay.
So don't stress yourself about those things there.
So another thing that I, that I did to avoid burnout was to tweak things.
Do different things sometimes, maybe sometimes just switch up your
overlays maybe sometimes go ahead.
And simply, you know, change the game that you're playing change,
the topics that you're talking about just spice it up, because it only,
that does excite you as well, but you also increase the opportunity to be
able to get new viewership, right.
Because you're switching it up.
Your loyal followers are always gonna be there for you just to
be able to spend time with you.
So switching it up sometimes does gig take you out of the routine?
And it re excites you about streaming and excites you about what it is you're doing.
And again, I always say, come back to your why, why did you start streaming?
Why did you come down to this journey?
So that way you can stay locked in with that.
Right?
Another thing that leads to burnout is trolls.
That's, that's a hundred percent with it.
You know, so many times people can get burnt out because of trolls.
Now I'm a new Yorker.
I grew up with tough skin.
It's very hard for a troll to get under my skin, but so I've never really
experienced burnout in that kind of sense, but I know people who experience
burnout because of that every single day, they can't handle people coming
in and just trolling them over and over and over again, it's mentally draining,
because you're.
You're subconsciously thinking about yourself.
Like I'm not good enough.
And one thing I gotta tell you is that you got to build that tough skin.
You gotta be able to go ahead and understand that those people
don't really have no kind of value in your life and they can't
control who you are as a person.
So you gotta build tough skin.
And that's one thing that I recommend is that social
media, the world is very cruel.
And if you allow that cruelty, because trolls are gonna wanna
look for your insecurities when you showcase that they're affecting
you, they're just gonna keep harping on that until they see you break.
Right.
So again, remember that they're being that way, not because of you.
But because there's some challenges that they're facing themselves
that they don't wanna battle.
And instead of them battling the challenges that they're
facing, they're coming after you.
So again remember it's your live stream?
It's your content.
You're the, the leader of the show.
So lead and, and don't allow that to be able to get you down.
Right.
And with that.
You know, it leads to like take care of your mental health.
I think it's super important, like how, how often do you see like your
mental health is super important?
It's super important for me to every single day.
When I wake up to be able to go ahead and meditate, to be able to do my prayer and
my Bible study, to be able to go ahead.
And work out to be able to go ahead and eat, right.
To be able to go ahead and get my day started.
Right.
And when you can go ahead and establish that kind of focus on, on yourself
and you really lock into yourself mentally, physically, spiritually,
and you can lock in, it just makes tackling the day so much easier.
So it's very important that you focus and listen to your body.
Listen to your mind.
Feel exhausted when you don't feel like doing something it's very
important that you just adjust.
Because sometimes we get locked into this grind.
We get locked into this opportunity of like, I gotta go get it.
I gotta go do it.
I gotta go do it right now.
Like if it's not, I don't do it now.
It's not gonna ever get done.
Or just feeling like, oh, if I take a break today, I'm just gonna fall behind.
And you really need to understand that you got plenty of time.
Run your journey.
Stop running somebody else's stop competing your journey with somebody else.
Just take your time, take your breaks.
It's okay.
Right.
Building a business, building a stream brand, building
something online takes time.
And if for 365 days, you missed 12 of them, you missed 30 of them.
You missed 60 of them.
That's totally fine.
Like you got 300 days that you hit it hard and you had 60 days that you missed woo.
Big deal.
Right.
You still kept going.
And the biggest thing that I say is just focusing on growth, focusing on.
Set time aside to be able to spend time with family.
I think this is one thing that really helped me try to avoid
the content creation burnout.
Number one, have a schedule, have a routine, but at the same time when it
comes to checkout check out, right.
I spend time with my family.
I spend time for myself.
I spend time with friends and family.
It's super important because you gotta disconnect.
And if you don't disconnect and all you're doing is thinking
about streaming and streaming and concentration, concentration,
concentration, you're gonna burn out.
And you wanna try to avoid that as much as possible.
So I hope that this has helped you understand a little bit
about how you should approach content creation and streaming.
We're gonna, we can talk about this all day long about burnout, but I'm gonna
tell you right now that it's better to be consistent over a long period of
time than to go ahead and hit it hard and then disappear for a few months.
I I've committed to one video.
Two streams a week and that's it, because it's manageable.
I know I can handle it.
I know I can keep going forward with that.
And I'd rather do that for five years than to do it for three months
and then disappear for nine months.
Right.
So stay consistent and put yourself around a community that can boost you up.
Right.
So if you're not a part of the discord community for the cur
nation, join us, it's just a full community of just positivity.
Goodness.
Trying to see you succeed in those moments where you feel like you want to.
Reach out to somebody because the thing that I wish I would've
did sooner was for ask for help.
If I wish I would've asked for help sooner for those people that were ahead
of me, those people that have experienced the things that I've experienced.
And then, because I didn't ask for help, it was the reason why that I burnt out.
So ask for help.
We're here for you.