Episode 153: How to Pace Yourself, Stay Productive & Avoid Burnout (FS153)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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    <p>Show notes ==> fizzleshow.co/153 How do you deal with the emotional ups and downs of entrepreneurship? Sometimes I’m manic, over-motivated, putting my head down and working everyday until some major milestone is reached. But this, in my experience, is far too often followed by burnout, down in the dumps, [depression]. It’s natural to go through this entrepreneurial rollercoaster, feeling on top of the world —&nbsp;“if I just get this thing done everything will fall into place!” —&nbsp;followed immediately by burnout, depression, looking for any excuse to watch Netflix in bed. On the show today we ask: is there a way to balance that out so we don’t go into despair every 3 to 6 weeks or so? Can we even it out so we don’t experience the highs and lows in the same magnitude? It’s an important conversation for anyone working on their own thing. Enjoy!</p>

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
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0:39.6	but as a listener, you can try your first five weeks for free on us when you go to fizzle.com
0:45.9	slash try five. Okay, in this episode, how do you deal with the emotional ups and downs of entrepreneurship?
0:55.0	Sometimes I, myself, am manic, overmotivated, putting my head down and working every day until some major milestone is reached.
1:04.0	But this, in my experience, is far too often almost every single time, followed by burnout.
1:10.0	Down in the dumps, kind of depression.
1:13.4	I think it's natural to go through this entrepreneurial roller coaster, feeling on top of the
1:17.4	world, if I just get this thing done, everything's going to fall into place, followed by
1:22.0	immediate burnout, depression, looking for, in my situation, any excuse to go watch Netflix in bed.
1:28.9	On the show today, we ask, is there a way to balance that out so we don't go into despair
1:34.2	every three to six weeks or so? And can we even it out so we don't experience the highs and lows
1:40.0	in the same magnitude? I think it's a really, really important conversation. It's going to be
1:44.3	awesome. If you build something, if you make something for a live, you're going to love this show.
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