Last week, in Episode #23, I dove deep into burnout – how it affects most of us, what it is, the neuroscience behind it, and when it happens. I only went a little into what to do about it.

This week I am giving you a short but robust framework on how to manage burnout or overwhelm when you are in the middle of it. 

This week’s podcast is a little shorter, and straight to the point. If are indeed overwhelmed or burned out, I don’t want to overwhelm you with too much more information before you get to the good stuff!

In this episode I will give you:

• 4 main reasons that burnout occurs
• 3 principles to consider
• 4-step framework to help you assess whether you are or will be in burnout
• 4 Considerations when you are going through the framework

You can use this framework, and some of the considerations I give you, each time you feel you are in overwhelm or burnout mode, and it will help turn you around.

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At night, have you ever had a feeling of dread about work the next day? 

Ever feel like you can’t get engaged or motivated to do your work? Your just grumpy about doing it, and you don’t feel like talking to your colleagues about it anymore? 

Maybe you feel like you are drowning in meetings and emails and don’t see a way out?

 You could quite possible be sliding into burnout mode. 

Burnout is now considered a specific medical condition that has been found to impact 50% to 77% of the populace. It turns out most people feel it at least some of the time, and a lot of people feel it most of the time.

In this week’s podcast, I go into:

• What burnout is
• Why and when it happens
• The science behind
• What you can do about it

At the end, I give you a 3-step action plan with 4 different activities you can consider to help you address burnout the next time it hits you.

Summary of Key Points:

Who Does it Impact?

• Surveys indicate that between 30% to 77% of people have felt burned out in the last year
• More and more people are feeling burned out more often
• 59% of millennials report feeling burned out, while 58% of Gen Z feel burned out. 

What is the impact?

• Burnout costs the global workforce an estimated $1 trillion in lost productivity each year
• In the US alone, approximately 120,000 people die from excessive burnout each year
• When burnout happens, it can negatively impact your sleep, motivation, focus, hunger and other body functions.

What is it?

• There are three or four parts to officially having burnout:
  • The loss of motivation
  • The depletion/loss of physical energy
  • A growing sense of emotional exhaustion
  • Often, the above three symptoms lead to cynicism

Action Plan

• You can use a 3-step action plan:

1. Take stock – what symptoms do you have? What is causing your burnout this time?
2.  Can you control it – When you look at the symptoms that are leading to your burnout, which can you control, and which can you not? 
3. Create a plan and stick to it over time – Figure out your workplan using some of the solutions below and put together your action plan to address it. Consider using a continuous improvement type approach to help you monitor and adjust over time.

Some potential solutions you can use in your action plan:

• Improve your homeostatic factors (Sleep, nutrition, movement, exercise, mindfulness)
• Become more positively engaged in your work
• Increase the number of positive social interactions you have at work, or elsewhere in your life
• Change your mindset (See our podcast Episode #16 on How to Set a Positive Mindset)

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And if you sign up now, you will a free brief  that outlines the #1 thing you can do today to overcome overwhelm. ​In the document, I give a brief overview of the neuroscience of what happens in your brain and body when you are overwhelmed. And I lay out the most important intervention you can start to take right here, right now to address your overwhelm.

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Have you ever felt stuck? 

Ever felt like you weren’t getting ahead, or didn’t know what to do with your life to feel a little more engaged, a little more alive?

This week I am looking at how many people feel stuck in life and what to do about it. 

If you have felt stuck at some point in your life, you are not alone! It isn’t hard to find surveys that show that people all over the world are feeling stuck with their lives.

Several reports and studies (check out this one or this global one for example) show that about 75% of people feel “stuck” personally and professionally, and are overwhelmed at work and at home. And most of them say they don’t have any idea how to get unstuck.

Given that the science-based High Performance coaching process I follow with my clients has helped many of them get “unstuck”, I thought I would share the most important concepts in hopes it can help you too if you are feeling stuck. 

Key Summary of Main Points

• Consistently, surveys indicate that 76% of respondents feel stuck in their personal lives, 31% are apprehensive about their futures, 27% are locked in the same routines, and 26% are lonelier than ever before.
• Those same polls show that most people don’t know how to get “unstuck”

• Being stuck means you:
  • Feel like you are spinning in place
  • Feel like you can’t really move forward in some or all aspects of your life
  • Are not sure what to do, and you do not feel really excited about your options, so you just “go around in circles”
  • Do think you know what to do, but can’t seem to be motivated to do them
• The most common reasons for feeling stuck in life include:
  • Lack of vision for what you want from life, or even better, for what is a fulfilling life for you
  • Lack of direction or plan
  • Lack of motivation to move forward
  • Lack of knowledge of how to get unstuck

• 5 science-backed Steps for getting unstuck include:
  • Start with Foundations
  • Understand your Why
  • Create your action plan
  • Create a PDCA Continuous Improvement Cycle
  • Lock in mini celebrations

 If you like what you heard or read today, I invite you to like, share and subscribe to this podcast.

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​You can select a summary of the 4 main ways you can achieve higher performance in your team or organization right now. The document outlines the 4 places to find up to 25% (or more sometimes) savings or efficiencies. And you will learn where to look and how to find them!

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Why bother thinking about high performance if you don’t want to be an overachieving, 80 hour workweek kind of person?

I got this question the other day and I will tell you all what I told that person: there are so many benefits to thinking about high performance, even if you don’t want to be a “high achiever”, or a "top performer".

And, by the way, seeking higher performance, or looking to achieve more in any aspect of your life doesn’t mean you have to burn all the hours of your day, or work your butt off (though you can if you want), or losing your balance in life.

So, today we are going to look at why thinking about high performance can benefit you, even if you don’t want to achieve higher performance.

Key Summary of Main Points

• High Performance means consistently succeeding beyond standard norms across domains while maintaining life satisfaction, well being and positive relationships
• There is a misconception that High Performance training is only for people who want to be elite, or be some super charged work freak, or work 80 hours a week to “Make a killing”
• Taking a “high performance” view on life has many benefits for just about anyone
• You can use a “high performance” view on life in just about any area of life too – hobbies, personal life, music, sports and of course your work

The benefits of just thinking about High Performance and what it takes to perform consistently at a higher level:

1.  You make time and space to think about what you want out of life
2. It helps you understand what you want out life
3. You take time to be proactively planned and thoughtful
4. It helps get you into a positive mindset

You can action today’s lesson by:

1. Taking a moment to decide whether you want those benefits in life – do you want to take a positive, proactive approach to doing your best and possible achieving a fulfilled life?
2. Learning about what it takes to do better
3. Taking time to be proactively planned and thoughtful
4. Considering taking a course or coaching

If you like what you heard or read today, I invite you to like, share and subscribe to this podcast.

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​You can select a summary of the 4 main ways you can achieve higher performance in your team or organization right now. The document outlines the 4 places to find up to 25% (or more sometimes) savings or efficiencies. And you will learn where to look and how to find them!

 Or you choose to download the 6 Pillars of High Success. This document outlines the 6 areas where high performers create daily habits to achieve clarity on their goals, are more productive, achieve more, and enjoy more success and more fulfillment in life. 

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In today’s podcast, I will show you how High Performers are consistently more productive, yet also happier, less stressed, and more rewarded over the long term.

Today’s topic is useful for anyone, regardless of whether you want to transform your organization for improved performance, achieve higher performance for your team, or achieve higher performance for yourself.

High Performance research has shown that the higher performers are more productive – they get more useful stuff done more efficiently and effectively – while not feeling stressed, overwhelmed or burned out.

In fact, they consistently report feeling engaged, motivated, happy, relaxed  and more rewarded compared to their peers. 

In this podcast I will:

• Define productivity (because understanding what it really is makes a big difference)
• Talk a little about why it is so darn important in achieving your personal or team goals
• Highlight the 4 concepts High Performers use to pursue and maintain being highly productive

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To me this week’s podcast is super important and very inspiring.

This week we explore how to achieve a thriving life. 

In this podcast you will learn:

• What does it mean to “thrive”
• The components of a thriving life
• Why anyone can attain a thriving, fulfilled life
• The 4 basic components of a thriving life
• The 5 main steps to plan and implement their plans to achieve a thriving life

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​You can select a summary of the 4 main ways you can achieve higher performance in your team or organization right now. The document outlines the 4 places to find up to 25% (or more sometimes) savings or efficiencies. And you will learn where to look and how to find them!

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Have you ever felt like you had so much on your plate, you couldn't think straight?  

Maybe you had too many back-to-back virtual meetings, with people knocking on your office door, or too many "to do's" with emails coming in and the phone doesn't stop ringing...

If you have ever felt overwhelmed you are not alone. Various surveys have found about 60% to %74 of Canadians, Americans or British people feeling overwhelmed, and “unable to cope” at least some of the time. And slightly less than that feel overwhelmed "a lot of the time".

Well, the silver lining here is that we know why the brain gets overwhelmed, and what you can do about it!

In today's podcast we:

• Describe what overwhelm actually is;
• Outline why it is both good sometimes but can be bad;
• List the 4 main causes of overwhelm; and
• Give you 7 ways you can stop overwhelm in its tracks and get back to a more balanced feeling

We give you some tactical, practical ways that you can use to help reduce the stress of overwhelm and get control of your own agenda again.

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This episode is all about the most important principles of when, what and how to communicate on your projects.

Today I am sharing with you the 10 principles I use when I start to work on a communication plan for any of my projects. These 10 principles work regardless of whether your project is large or small. 

I want to share communication principles, because regardless of the communication template or tool you use, if you follow these concepts you will find success.  A good communication plan helps you take your important stakeholders on the journey of your project, telling each stakeholder the information that they need to know for them to accept and support your solution.

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This week’s podcast is pretty special. It is based on peer-review neuroscience findings and has been found to be one of the protocols or habits repeatedly used by high performers in high performance research.

With one simple protocol, you will be able to achieve higher productivity, higher performance, be happier and more fulfilled. This is a superpower that you can use at various points in your day, your week, and in all aspects of your life. 

In this podcast, we will:

• Define what a mindset is
• Use science backed research to point out how you can set your own mindset, and how powerful it can be to do so
• Outline what the main benefits are of setting your own mindset
• Provide a simple, tactical protocol to setting your mindset to achieve more and be more successful at achieving your goals

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And if you sign up now, you will a free brief  that outlines the #1 thing you can do today to overcome overwhelm. ​In the document, I give a brief overview of the neuroscience of what happens in your brain and body when you are overwhelmed. And I lay out the most important intervention you can start to take right here, right now to address your overwhelm.

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What if I told you there was a really simple tool that you could use that could help you predict project success every time? And that this tool works on mega big projects as well as small projects?

And that you can complete it in 10 minutes or less? In this week's podcast, I introduce this simple tool and tell you how to use it.

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