Breaking The Burnout Cycle
Are you a service based entrepreneur who currently works 8-10 hours in your business every day and yet you never get to a point where anything feels done?
You end each day frustrated, telling yourself “There just is not enough time in the day”, as you look down at your never ending to-do list that always seems to get longer no matter how productive you are.
And because you have so much to do in your business, every day has started to feel like you are trapped on a never-ending cycle of exhaustion and burnout as you move from task to task, drinking your 5th cup of coffee, working as you eat, never having a moment to just stop and breathe.
You get to the end of every day and just collapse on the couch, mindlessly scrolling through your phone, too exhausted to spend time with your family or even respond to their eagerness to tell you about their day.
And even though you’re dead tired, every night is another sleepless night, tossing and turning, wondering if you did enough as you think about both the tasks you didn’t get to and the family obligations you forgot about leaving you feeling like you just can’t seem to get anything right and that you’re dropping the ball in all areas of life.
But what if you could break the never-ending cycle of burnout for good and have the massive impact you started your business for all while having your time, energy, and health for a business and life that you love?
Because you can!
Dr. Reana over the past 3 years has been helping service based entrepreneurs, like yourself, break free from the entrepreneur burnout cycle by teaching brain-based tools, rooted in neuroscience and neuropsychology, to help you identify, understand, and break free from subconscious habits that are keeping you stuck in the burnout cycle so that you can have the impact and financial freedom you started your business for while still having your time, energy, and health for a life and business that you love.
You’ll be learning the exact tools that have helped her clients double, and sometimes triple, their income all while working less hours and having internal peace to be fully present and enjoy everything from family dinners to work-free vacations.
Join Doctor of Physical Therapy and Master Certified Neurocoach Dr. Reana Mulcahy each week as she brings her knowledge, expertise, and guest experts on to help you break free from the entrepreneur burnout cycle so that you can have a thriving business and personal life that you enjoy and love.
Welcome to the Breaking The Burnout Cycle Podcast
Breaking The Burnout Cycle
Episode 48: What Motherhood Has Taught Me About Burnout
Can I be real with you?
The transition into motherhood and entrepreneurship has been difficult and hard
And I know what you might be thinking - well of course it is hard! Motherhood alone is hard because of the lack of sleep, lack of time to yourself, the physical toll it takes to breastfeed
But hear me out - that isn't the main reason I've been finding motherhood hard
See what I've been noticing coming up for me lately, is the emotion of grief and disappointment
And the thing that I teach my clients is that all emotions are our bodies ways of communicating to us what we are focusing our thoughts and attention on. When we look at grief it is an emotion that is telling us that we feel we have lost something. Disappointment is an emotion that is telling us we have an unmet expectation.
And when I dug further into why those emotions were coming up for me, I had a vision of what I hoped it would look like by the time I got here
I thought that I would have the level of income I was shooting for, be fully ready to launch my 2nd group program in January, have the systems and processes in place for all things so I could just delegate it off to my VA on a regular cadence
And really none of that has happened...
And to be honest it's been a duality in my emotions.
On one hand I absolutely love motherhood. and if you knew me - this is something I never expected...because I am highly ambitious, I never imagined that I would love being home watching my child every day. On the other hand - there is so much disappointment and frustration with myself that I didn't get what I wanted and needed to get done to hit the deadlines that I set for myself. And then there is a sense of grief or a sense of a loss because the old amount of time is now lost.
And that's the thing right - is when we have an idea of what we feel things should look like, we immediately put so much pressure on ourselves to try to speed the process up and make sure that it looks that way. To the point that we start to stress about the things we cannot control
And because we stress about these things - we just start to attempt to control things by DOING MORE
- saying yes to every opportunity even if we don't have capacity
- micromanaging our team to make sure everything is perfect
- constantly thinking about all the things you need to do in order to try to speed things up faster
And in actuality, the only thing that this does ensure is 3 things and on today's episode I reveal the 3 things that doing more ensures
By the time you finish listening you will have learned:
- The 3 things that doing more ensures (hint it isn't faster success)
- Why doing more not only slows down your rate of achieving your goals but also comes at a high cost
- The one thing you can do to achieve your goals WITHOUT burning out
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