Note: This article is from blogger Bard Hard, who shares his experience avoiding burnout.
Overworking is just like a transmission shaft, where the car takes off and moves fast, overwhelming you with impulses. But what can happen when the acceleration continues? And how far can you overload the engine? There are always problems that need solving in entrepreneurship, and there are people who help us solve them. It is not a race in which we are running as fast as we can to the finish line.
When I owned a Subaru (WRX), I used to start moving and then increase the speed by shifting the gears to the third level. That was the turning point because that's when the momentum starts to take over.
You can get enough motivation to move to the 4th and 5th levels and you don't even have to pedal any faster. As soon as you think about it, you'll suddenly find yourself accelerating. So how do we get into entrepreneurship so smoothly and focus without doubling the effort?
How can you avoid job burnout?
1. Executing big tasks
This is our motto at The Greatness Foundation. We build schools and homes for people in need, as well as other projects around the world, but it also applies here: "Are the things you do the ones that keep you moving forward to get the results you want? Are they of high priority, high impact, or high influence?" If not, remove them or dispose of them.
2. Perform fewer tasks
Always ask yourself this question, which the great entrepreneur Tim Ferriss asks: What things would make the rest of your to-do list easier or less important, if you did them? Or in other words, how would this job be if it was easy and fun?
3. Time management
One form of time management is called EADL. It is an abbreviation in English whose letters combine the first of the following words:
- Eliminate tasks that are not of great importance if it is not possible to get rid of them.
- Automate tasks as best you can. Inefficiencies in automation only add to wasted time and incompetency. Derive only what is beautiful, simple, and effective, and what can serve you from these actions.
- Delegate what cannot be automated or disposed of to another person.
- Liberate yourself from the process so you can level up and focus on bigger and better tasks.
Get rid of anything insignificant to automate if possible. If not, get it right and teach it accurately to someone else, then take it off your shoulders.
4. Do the tasks yourself first
To better understand how things work, do the tasks yourself first so that you can create a successful workflow and to-do list to refer to for your work. Constantly train your team to think in a simple and practical way. Create easy steps and make them available to the team. This will save countless hours of time when it is time to hire and train.
We adopt the "always available" rule. It allows us to spend all the time monitoring the progress of work and our to-do list.
The rule says that if you have done something 100 times or once, the checklist will always remain open so that nothing is forgotten or left out. We first look for the error in the checklist if any task fails during the workflow.
This is why a multibillion-dollar corporation like McDonald's can be run by teenagers. Every work starts step by step, just follow these steps to get success.
5. Stop doing some tasks
Organizing and arranging your to-do list and keeping only high-priority tasks is much more important than just creating it. It should contain ready-to-do tasks. The tasks that have the greatest impact and show your genius, are the ones that you should do yourself. If you’re not currently making enough money, it's probably because there are too many tasks to do instead of organizing and reducing the clutter of those tasks in your to-do list.
What are your biggest resources? I never mean managing time, energy, and attention, rather, money and systems. Stop doing the simple and many things that cause you to burn out. Stop counting a lot of work and busyness as a sign of pride, and stop taking everything you do seriously. Learn how to think in terms of organizing time, work volume, and permanence so that excessive work does not weaken your effort and cause you fatigue and burnout.
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