How to Bounce Back When You're Burning Out
Limitless Life
Melyssa Griffin
4.9 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this episode I’m talking about burnout, and if you know my story you’ve heard how it was a significant turning point in my life as an entrepreneur, and human. I went through this period of burnout about two years ago, where I took a full 6 months away from my company. That feeling had been building for quite some time before I took my sabbatical, resulting in serious physical manifestations for me.
This topic of burnout is not only really important to me, it’s something that I hear about so often from the people that I work with, which is why I felt that I really needed to dedicate an episode of the podcast to talking about it.
Today I am going to move you through a three-pronged process to bounce back from burnout by becoming aware, aligned and then taking action! Are you ready?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Melissa Griffin and while I was in my 20s, I turned a hobby blog into a multi-million |
| 0:05.8 | dollar company. Now, what I've discovered after working with thousands of entrepreneurs |
| 0:09.8 | is that the greatest thing standing in the way of success isn't another business tactic |
| 0:15.6 | or marketing strategy. It's your own mindset. Now, I believe that you're meant for more than just the status quo. |
| 0:23.2 | So on this show, you'll feel like you're sitting down with a friend who's here to help you transform your fears and roadblocks into a truly limitless version of yourself. |
| 0:33.9 | It's time to upgrade your life and business from the inside out. |
| 0:38.6 | Let's do this. |
| 0:50.5 | Welcome back to Limitless Life. So today we're talking about burnout. Yeah, burnout. If you know anything about my story, then you know that burnout was a pretty significant turning |
| 0:55.2 | point in my life as an entrepreneur and really as a human. I went through this period of burnout |
| 1:02.0 | about two years ago now where I took six months off from my company because I was that |
| 1:08.4 | burned out. I was so burnt out that I couldn't physically |
| 1:12.0 | work up the energy to continue working in my company. And that had been building for quite some |
| 1:19.2 | time. I was feeling burnt out for a year or maybe even two years before I took that sabbatical. |
| 1:26.1 | And it was just escalating and escalating until I started |
| 1:28.9 | to have physical manifestations of burnout like adrenal fatigue, exhaustion, apathy, depression, |
| 1:35.8 | all of the things that you think of when you think of burnout. So this topic is really important |
| 1:42.0 | to me. And it's something that I hear so often from people that I work with, |
| 1:48.0 | clients, students, people in my community who I support. There's this almost sense that you need to |
| 1:55.7 | hustle your way to the top. That grinding and grit and just working super long hours is how you gain |
| 2:05.0 | success. And I think it's a really toxic way of working and creating things. I certainly think that |
| 2:11.6 | hard work has its place and is obviously an important component of creating anything. |
| 2:24.9 | But there's a line that gets to be drawn where we start to enter the world and realm of burnout as opposed to simply hard work. |
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