August 09, 2025

August 1, 2025 – A Path Out of Burnout

38 minutes

Hang out with me in a park in the gloaming (and the wind, it turns out, and the helicopters and airplanes) for the fourth episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, a podcast in which tales of one particular ongoing creative life might just have something useful for your own.

In this episode, I elaborate on the burnout I mentioned in the previous episode, and go into depth on the mindset, tactics, and strategy I’m employing on a daily basis to climb out of that charred and sooty trench.

This episode was recorded on August 1, 2025.

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Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode

My creative services for authors and podcasters.

My fiction and non-fiction.

I worked for the long lost and much-loved Borders Books and Music from 1995 until Black Friday, 2005, doing every job at the store level, helping open new stores and training their staffs, helping set policy, and walking you to the section, taking the book off the shelf, and putting it in your hands.

The Franklin / Covey planner is still a monster, but there really is something to be said for paper.

Productivity guru Stephen Covey.

Benjamin Franklin’s thirteen virtues.

My e-ink tablet is an older Boox Note Air.

What’s yoga nidra?

Unreal Engine.

This episode was recorded (audio and video) using a Pixel 9a phone with no external tools or third-party apps. Front-facing camera.

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