How to Escape Burnout and Stuckness
How do you know if you’re experiencing an extreme, unsustainable level of burnout, stress, and stuckness or if it’s simply an unavoidable part of modern professional life? It can be hard to tell and I’m sharing some questions that might help you figure it out. I’m also sharing experiments & retreat spaces for finding a way through the burnout and stuckness.
One of my clients was a serial startup founder and came to me when he was on his third startup, this go-around as a first time CEO. We’d spent a year coaching together, covering topics such as creating sustainable high performance for his team, understanding his leadership style of high expectations, hiring up the right C-suite team, and supporting the team through a fundraising round. He kept going faster and faster, recognizing that he needed more space and perspective but not able to do anything different because the company was in the midst of raising their Series B. It took his body giving out with a stress-related health emergency—he’s now fine— to get him to pause and recognize that he was burned out and needed to do something different.
You don’t have to experience a serious health issue before recognizing that something needs to change. Instead, ask yourself these three questions to see if it’s the right time for you to do something different.
