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#244 - Overcoming Burnout with Simple Daily Practices (5 Minutes or Less)

Jordan Edwards Season 5 Episode 244

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Burnout doesn't discriminate—it affects everyone from CEOs to stay-at-home parents. When juggling family commitments, career demands, social connections, and personal aspirations becomes overwhelming, our bodies and minds send clear distress signals. Recognizing these warning signs—persistent fatigue, increasing irritability, motivation loss, and disconnection—is your first defense against spiraling deeper into burnout.

This focused guide delivers exactly what busy, overwhelmed people need: simple, actionable strategies that take minimal time but yield maximum relief. The 4-4-4 breathing technique offers an immediate reset for your overwhelmed nervous system, lowering your heart rate and activating your body's natural relaxation response in just 12 seconds. Establishing clear boundaries—like our household's "no screens after 9:30 pm" rule—creates protected space for recovery and rejuvenation. The daily gratitude practice we've implemented at breakfast has transformed our mental focus from what's depleting to what's nourishing.

Movement breaks throughout your day, quality sleep practices, strategic delegation, and periodic digital detoxes all contribute to a more sustainable daily rhythm. But perhaps the most powerful tool in your anti-burnout arsenal is reclaiming your right to say "no." Each decline to what doesn't serve your wellbeing becomes an affirmative choice toward what truly matters. These aren't complex life overhauls—they're small, consistent choices that gradually transform exhaustion into energy and overwhelm into optimism. Ready to make these shifts in your own life? Reach out directly at jordan@edwards.consulting to explore which practices might best serve your specific situation.

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overcoming burnout with a simple daily practice. The purpose of this podcast is going to be five minutes or less with actionable tips. The purpose of this is that we're going to give you actionable steps if you're experiencing burnout, if you're feeling that. So the truth is, everyone experiences burnout. Why? Because we have so many responsibilities. We have our family, we have our businesses, we have our jobs, we have our friends, we have our businesses, we have our jobs, we have our friends, we have our children, we have our dogs, we want to travel, we have parents, there's so many different people, there's religious groups, so there's physical fitness. Your body's asking you for something, so you have so many requirements that it's pretty common for people to experience burnout. So one take inventory and reflect that hey, maybe I'm experiencing this, and some of the telltale signs of this are you're fatigued, you're irritable, you lack motivation, feeling disconnected, and it really comes from overworking, lack of boundaries, poor work-life balance, feeling unappreciated, unclear goals. So the best thing we can do is identify this early, and the way to do that is you start finding yourself and you start what they call it is investing in yourself, and that means taking time for yourself. And some of the activities we can do. Here is one we can do mindful breathing, some of the activities we can do. Here is one we can do mindful breathing, which is essentially a breathwork exercise where you inhale for four seconds, you hold for four seconds and then you exhale for four seconds. It's supposed to be relaxation. You can do it and it will bring down your resting heart rate. It will calm you down.

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The other big one is you could set boundaries and stick to them. So what that means is we set a boundary, actually in our house recently that after 9.30 pm during the week, we don't watch TV. So why? Because we want to get better sleep, so we turn off the TV at 9.30. These are boundaries you set. There might also be boundaries of I don't go out during the week past 9.30 or I don't. Whatever it is for you, you have to know your priorities.

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And then a big hack is the gratitude habit. So we, madison and I, we started instituting this at breakfast where we say what are three things we're grateful for, and this helped us get in an attitude of gratitude, get us in the right place, and I'm really trying to condense this to make it super actionable for you guys. Another massive one is a movement break. So every hour you want to probably do 10 or 15 minutes. Maybe get a standing desk, maybe get moving around. You want to make sure you're getting good sleep.

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And you got to delegate people. You got to work with other people. You got to build a team around you. Even in your normal life like maybe food shopping takes it out of you negatively start delegating that. There's instacart, you know what I mean. There's a lot of different ways. And then also try to get a digital detox. So try to step away from the technology for a little bit. You don't have to be responsive to everyone. And then the biggest thing is remembering that you can always say no. No allows you to focus on your goals. And once you develop these systems in your life, it will make a massive difference for you and you won't be feeling that burnout, but you'll be feeling that optimism and excitement. And if you need help with this, reach out to me at jordan, at edwardsconsulting. That's my email. I'm always watching it, except when I'm doing my digital detox, but I'd love to talk to you soon and I look forward to hearing from you guys. So I hope you got some value from this.

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