Episode 51: How to Power Through Burnout
Real Business Owners
Trevor Cowley
4.9 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A major trap that many people (not just business owners) fall into is trying to avoid burnout. The truth is, you need to power through it if you want to eventually succeed in whatever you’re doing! Your initial passion will inevitably dwindle, but it’s in that moment that you can create degrees of separation between you and the competition!
If our experience in business has taught us anything it’s the value of long-term commitment, sticking with something through the ups and downs! You shouldn’t expect great results in the first one or two years, but there’s no sense in quitting when you’ve already finished what will likely be the worst of it!
In this episode, we explain why burnout is an integral part of the process and talk about things you can do to help get through it!
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| 0:00.0 | Real business owners. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome back to the Real Business Owners podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | This is episode 51 with myself, Trevor, and my dude Kel. |
| 0:11.0 | What's up? |
| 0:12.5 | Guys, today we have a topic that we think is very, very important, right? |
| 0:19.6 | This shit happens to everybody. |
| 0:22.2 | 100% of people. |
| 0:24.2 | You know, it doesn't matter who you are. |
| 0:25.9 | It doesn't matter the industry that you're in. |
| 0:28.0 | It doesn't matter if you're an employee or an owner. |
| 0:31.1 | It doesn't matter if you're, if you could relate this to being a parent. |
| 0:35.9 | You know, feeling feeling that way. The topic is |
| 0:39.2 | burnout. You know, we all go through phases where you just feel burnout. And again, it doesn't |
| 0:44.1 | matter. I mean, your kids can burn you out where you feel like you're going to pull your hair out. |
| 0:47.6 | Your business could make you feel that way. Your job could make you feel that way. The reality |
| 0:53.1 | is people overcomplicate this and they try to run from it. |
| 0:57.7 | And what I mean by that is they try to change or pivot their entire career or whatever it is that they're doing based upon a low moment. |
| 1:06.7 | Well, they think it's going to make them happy. |
| 1:09.2 | They're like, oh, I'm burned out. |
| 1:10.7 | I think I'll be happier doing something, doing this or doing that. |
| 1:14.2 | Maybe they have some other opportunities come to their way and they're like, oh, I need |
| 1:17.2 | to change of scenery or whatever, right? |
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