This week,
we're in Los Angeles and we're talking about something that everyone experiences
burnout.
This is a 2019 Dodge grand caravan GT in octane red Pearl and my Jerry Seinfeld
impression is way off.
I really thought that it would be easier to do a Seinfeld impression for this
opener, but this is nowhere even close.
The interior is black gray stone with a red stitch and it's equipped with a 283
horsepower, six cylinder, six speed automatic engine and power sliding doors,
zero to 60 in about 10 seconds and 11 cupholders.
I'm Taylor Jackson and this is around the world with Taylor Jackson presented by
Nikon and stay. My guests is a Nikon Z6
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There is no direct line to becoming successful as a creator.
Instead we have this series of confusing lines that I'll lead us in different
directions.
All of these lines lead somewhere and it's up to us to put together the sequence
that gets us to the runway,
but with such an overwhelming number of combinations,
a lot of us are feeling burnt out before we ever make it for takeoff.
Every winter as a temperature shifts, a fog moves in
the heat from the hours I spend behind a computer, mixes with the cold air,
overworked and under hydrated.
In this time I spend days trying to reinspire myself, buying new lighting,
film cameras, lenses, starting new projects,
new photo books, booking trips.
None of it works.
The fog will last until the sun burns it off in the spring when I get busy
again. And there's no time to think.
Life seems more simple when you're busy and there's progression
either in skills or finance or relationships.
But the fog will always come back
who will arrive before you wake. And it will always take too long to burn off.
I've come to LA to relax and recover,
but I'm finding it incredibly difficult to pass up opportunities to work.
A lot of people come to Los Angeles to make it in their respective field.
And that could be photography, film as a model, an actor,
all of those markets are so oversaturated that you have to work so much harder
than everyone else, and it is much more likely that you're gonna face burnout.
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So what exactly is burnout in short?
Burnout is physical or emotional exhaustion.
Usually it's also accompanied with a reduced sense of accomplishment or some
loss of your personal identity in the craft that you love.
It can also be straight physical that you've pushed your body so hard for so
long that it just needs time to reset.
It can come out of nowhere and it is a hard stop on your journey.
I quit my full time job because I wanted to create,
I love being able to create full time, but creating full time,
you get burnt out. My mind is always running, always running. I burned. I just,
I can't always create and how the digital spaces now is that you have to keep
creating, you have to keep creating or your,
your stuff starts to fall back.
They'll put you at the end of the line and being a YouTuber,
just it's like it's, it's like an avalanche is always behind you.
You're getting chased by an avalanche and eventually it's going to get you in.
The avalanche represents running out of ideas, running out of banger videos.
I'm getting tired of editing. It's all there waiting to happen.
It's eventually going to happen and it happened to me a couple of times and
that's why I finally hired someone for help, but this has been real, you know,
and I feel,
I feel like a complainer because I'm complaining about the dream life, right?
That you get to travel and do photography full time, but it's real man.
It's real. The burnout is definitely real.
Yeah.
When I do what I do, but a go went and put in work,
when I see what I see better go away and put in work.
When I get what I get better go when put in work, when a road.
How about we're all better go when put in,
when I look so fresh every time I put in an all white,
when every time I put in that door,
every time, every time I put in
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everyone is going to tell you that to successful you have to work harder than
everyone else. The problem with this is that work is infinite.
What's worked for me in managing burnout is working in projects and seasons.
Knowing that if I put in the hard work this month,
I can work half as hard next month.
This works for me because it makes everything seem a lot less overwhelming when
I feel there is a constant never ending stream of work coming my way,
I start to feel burnt out and I feel I'm motivated.
If I know there was a reward of more time freedom on the other side of this hard
week, I start to feel a lot better about it.
Travel specifically is also a huge motivator for me,
knowing that if I work hard and get everything done before I go,
I can relax and enjoy the trip.
This is a trade that I can make with myself that I really do feel good about.
It's important for you to figure out what motivates you to get through the hard
times before you start feeling overwhelmed, stressed and anxious.
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and when that fog rolls in again, take time for yourself,
for your health, for your happiness.
It's a delicate balance and it's very easy to get into a dark place and while
life and your success may always be led by indirect lines,
it's important to enjoy the process of discovery when it comes down to it.
That's really what photography and life are all about.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you again next week.