From Business Burnout and Apathy to Focus and Joy

What is biz burnout? Symptoms

Lack of joy, excitement, interest in your work. Apathy.
Low energy, Brain fog
Avoid tasks
- Procrastination
- Lack of focus
Draining Relationships
- Staff
- Customers
- Vendors
- Co-founders, biz partners
Distractions and addictions
Health issues, stress

Why burnout is a big problem

50% DCers no longer have joy in biz, 99% don’t have joy in all parts of biz
Want to sell biz / pivot
Examples
Danger of it sneaking up on you
80% people with 9-5 jobs have this too – esp accountants, lawyers and doctors made to become one from parents

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
― Howard Thurman

If you could wave a magic wand… and no more burnout?

What would mean for your life and biz?
Biz burnout is a big problem for most entrepreneurs at some point in their lives
You can detect it early
You can cure and prevent it

My Story with Burnout and Apathy

Multiple burnouts over 30 years of owning a biz
Addictions and distractions
Multiple pivots provided temporary relief
Issues with bad staff, customers and vendors draining my energy
Clutter
Losses (rather than profits)

What changed for me

Kundalini yoga teacher training and Intuitive Life Coach training gave me more tools and consciousness about my biz
CF Alive revolution gave more meaning to my biz
Conscious hiring and customer selection
Clear boundaries

Biz Burnout Causes

Lack of clarity, lack of why
Regulations and taxes
Overcomplicating
Bad delegation and hiring / customer selection
Messy business foundations
Energy vampires and objects in biz
Past trauma, work scars
Too much travel
Missing “The Basics” (Sleep, Diet, Exercise, Touch, Addictions)

Starting to heal biz burnout

Be Conscious of your:
Health
Biz
Money
Relationships
Environment
Energy
Joy audit – Wheels of Life and Biz areas. (Score 0-10 joy scale)

Cures

Vision of biz clear and inspiring
- Your big WHY
- “If the reason isn't big enough, the excuse will be.”
- Lead a revolution in your industry – a WHY bigger than you or your biz
Profit and joy
- Select staff, customers, projects, vendors for joy as well as profits/skills/fit
- Remove Energy drains
Clear past work scars
Flow
- Listen to your intuition
- Message to Change!
“The Basics”

“The Basics” – Health affects joy and focus

Quality Sleep
Healthy Diet
- Gut health, bacteria biome
Reduce Drugs
Daily Exercise
Time in Nature
- digital detox
Regular Touch
- DOSE hormones

Focus Hacks

Cold showers
- ice bath
WimHof breathing
Meditation
Focus music
Time Blocks/Pomodoro
Group support and accountability – eg Ultraworking
Food hacks – Detox, fast, vegan, raw
Intense exercise

Drug aids

Nootropics
- Lion’s Mane mushroom
- L-tyrosine
- Qualia
Microdosing
- San Pedro
- LSD
Ayahuasca
Caffeine, nicotine, chocolate and sugar
Modafinil
But beware of covering up apathy

Clear Environment

Remove Clutter
- Email
- Tabs
- Desk
Tasks
- Getting Things Done method
- Remove low-grade worry tasks
- Timer – timebox
- Pre-planning night before
Boundaries
- remove interruptions esp for digital nomads
- Remove energy vampires

Improve Energy

Entity removal, cord cutting
Room energy clearing
Separate from city/place energy
Meditation
EFT
Sungazing
Crystals
EMF and RF fog from computers, phones and wifi

Real Purpose of Entrepreneurship

Personal Growth
- solving meaningful challenging problems

“While making money was good, having meaningful work and meaningful relationships was far better.
To me, meaningful work is being on a mission I become engrossed in, and meaningful relationships are those I have with people I care deeply about and who care deeply about me.
Think about it: It’s senseless to have making money as your goal as money has no intrinsic value—its value comes from what it can buy, and it can’t buy everything.”
– from Principles by Ray Dalio (multi-billionaire entrepreneur)

Next steps

Check your “Basics”
Do Joy audit on life and work areas
- (0-10 scale)
- Biz: staff, customers, vendors, biz areas
- Life: health, spiritual, money, relationship/sex, friends/family, career
Lights spreadsheet habit tracking