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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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41% of Americans experience burnout after taking time off in the summer. In this episode, Carey breaks down why rest isn't enough to sustain a leader.
He explains what's at stake when you return from vacation (or Sabbatical) and continue to lead tired. Carey outlines four strategies that will help you sustain peak leadership performance after you return from your summer break.
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TIMESTAMPS:
The problem with time off (00:00:02)
Rethinking rest (00:01:00)
The impact of burnout (00:02:02)
The importance of sustainable pace (00:04:02)
Time and energy audit (00:15:09)
Categorical decision making (00:17:53)
Managing energy (00:21:40)
Finding non-work focus (00:24:23)
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0:00.0 | The problem is that time off won't heal you when the problem is how you spend your time on. |
0:08.0 | There's so much being said about time off. I'm a fan of time off, but I'm also a fan of time on right you can't take five |
0:14.0 | Sabbath a week you can't do that and some of you you take a Sabbath some of you have even |
0:18.6 | taken a sabbatical right and you're still you're back and like you're back after three months on |
0:24.4 | sabbatical and you're exhausted and that's why sabbaticals don't work if the |
0:29.8 | purpose of your sabbatical is to recover so that you have another 5, 10, 15 years left in the tank, |
0:35.2 | it's not going to work unless you figure out how to handle your time on. experimental format on the podcast. Hey, we're approaching a decade. |
0:53.8 | Might as well do something different and on this episode I'm going to share some |
0:58.2 | thoughts, some ideas and some teaching I suppose you can call it. There's no guest, it's just me. Now these |
1:05.3 | episodes are going to be a lot shorter. As usual I hope it helps you thrive in |
1:10.3 | life and leadership. So what are we going to talk about today? Well your |
1:14.4 | summer break is coming up and to that point today on the podcast I want to |
1:18.8 | help you rethink rest. There is so much being said these days about rest. Rest is good, but I'm going to tell you why it's not enough and why it doesn't work. |
1:27.0 | And I'll give you four key strategies to sustain peak leadership performance beyond the summer break. |
1:34.0 | And here's why. |
1:34.8 | Okay, summer vacations are breaks. |
1:36.8 | I'm going to take one too, but for so many leaders, |
1:40.7 | time off doesn't fully refuel them. They come back and minutes after they |
1:44.2 | return, they're exhausted. I mean you probably had that happen before. I've had it |
1:48.8 | happened before. We'll look at why that happens and then I'm going to share with you four strategies to help you |
1:54.5 | sustain peak performance when you're back so you can feel as good or almost as good |
2:00.3 | as you did on your summer vacation. Okay, does that sound good? |
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