Episode 236: Why “Just Power Through” is Terrible Advice (FS236)

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

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Burning out and blowing up costs us all way too much in our businesses.

“Just power through it” is terrible advice because it’s a recipe for burnout, for blowing up.

Nobody gets to storming out of the office yelling “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” without powering through a whole lotta bullsh*t for a while.

So, in this podcast and article we want to help us all learn a new way to handle moments when there’s too much on our plates.

We are all going to have too much on our plates at some point. The question is, will you put in a little preventative maintenance and work smarter instead of harder?

There’s a podcast episode here I really think you should listen to because it’s full of wisdom and details about this that, frankly, once you hear it you’ll never forget it.

Below are some notes about this conversation that you’ll be able to come back to again and again.

Here’s that podcast episode. You can listen to it here or in your favorite podcast player (recommended because then you can listen while you do the dishes, or better yet, go on a walk).

Show Notes: http://fizzleshow.co/236

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0:00.0	well, maybe there's a way for me to kind of do both.
0:02.9	Maybe there's a way for me to give myself a break and also not let anybody else down.
0:07.7	And that, I think, is the recipe for disaster, burnout, all the things that you talked about when you were introducing the episode.
0:18.1	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle show!
0:22.7	Are you ready to rock?
0:28.2	That was hard.
0:29.4	Wow, that was really hard to do.
0:31.9	That wouldn't be able to talk to the next hour.
0:33.5	This is the Fizzle show where every week we talk about things that are essential and interesting to indie entrepreneurs, okay?
0:42.4	People who are earning a living doing something that they care about.
0:46.5	It's amazing that you can create life on your own terms, but it isn't easy.
0:50.6	You don't get this delivered to you on a silver platter.
0:53.1	You got to work for it.
0:54.2	That means focus. That means vision. That means execution. All the things that are hard to do.
1:01.0	That's what we get into. That's what we're about here at Fizzle. If you're new to the Fizzle show,
1:05.8	I want to say welcome. We've got a toolkit for you. When you go to fizzle.co slash toolkit, we've got several guides and the 10 essential
1:17.3	podcast episodes of this show that you can't miss.
1:22.3	You can get that all as a gift for just being a listener to the show when you go to fizzle.
1:26.5	com slash toolkit. Thanks for joining us. I'm the show when you go to fizzle.com slash toolkit.
1:28.4	Thanks for joining us.
1:29.7	I'm here in the studio, the Fizzle headquarters with Corbett Barr.
1:32.3	Say hi, Corbett.
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