Hello and welcome to Business 300.

My name is Philip Kulenshov and this is 300 seconds about business.

We're all a busy people, so I have five minutes or less to get my point across.

These five minute episodes are meant as a quick pick-me-up for you to get going, or maybe to keep going.

We all get tired, exhausted, or in need of a break. That's true. But a break is different than a burnout.

Many business owners and entrepreneurs experience intense burnout when they want to tap out, throw in the towel, quit.

But before you do that, maybe I can give you a different perspective to consider.

You're not burned out because you work too hard.

You're burned out because your business is a mess.

Most burnout is not caused by overwork.

Rather, it's caused by garbage systems and crappy business practices. And before you start planning your next self-care weekend, let me ask, what exactly

are you recovering from? All the progress you've made? Or the fact that every day feels like

Groundhog Day full of Slack notifications? Maybe you read a book about having to reset and

offload, so you decide that's your

problem.

You're just working too hard.

But that's not necessarily the case.

You're stuck in a daily loop of reactive work repeating the same broken tasks with notifications

blowing up constantly, making it feel like you're working hard while going nowhere.

Burnout isn't always about doing too much.

It's about doing too much of the wrong things over and over with zero leverage or traction moving you forward.

It's not productive. That's horrible.

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