[0:00] if I'm honest I have a history of
[0:02] working myself a bit too hard and ending
[0:06] up burnt out and if you've ever
[0:07] experienced it especially if you are a
[0:10] content creator or entrepreneur then
[0:11] you'll know just how detrimental burnout
[0:14] is to your life your business and just
[0:18] your general well-being after hitting
[0:20] rock bottom with my mental health in the
[0:22] summer of 2021 I knew that I had to put
[0:24] some strategies and routines in place to
[0:27] help me prioritize my mental health over
[0:30] just my productivity which I had been
[0:32] doing and by the way today's video is
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[0:38] but we'll talk more about them later and
[0:40] lately I've been feeling myself creeping
[0:42] towards that feeling of burnout again I
[0:45] think it's a bit of a mid-year thing
[0:47] like I feel like I've been working so
[0:48] hard for the first half of 2023 and now
[0:51] we've kind of Hit the summer and it
[0:52] feels like it's the time to relax and
[0:54] I'm still feeling that guilt for like
[0:56] not continuing to hustle and push myself
[0:58] further so when I start to feel like
[1:00] that I know it's time to really lean
[1:02] into these anti-burn out routines and
[1:05] prioritize stuff outside of work and I
[1:08] thought you might be going through the
[1:09] same thing so today I want to take you
[1:11] through my day of strategies habits
[1:15] routines that I use to try to defocus
[1:18] from work to make sure I'm taking care
[1:20] of myself so that I don't get burnt out
[1:22] again and one of the best things you can
[1:24] do to prevent burnout is to Outsource
[1:26] the tasks that overwhelm you the most so
[1:29] for you if that's editing your videos
[1:30] creating your Instagram content or
[1:32] coming up with your social strategy my
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[1:37] about that later on in the video for now
[1:38] let's rewind back to the morning and
[1:41] start off this day of an anti-burn out
[1:43] routine together
[1:44] [Music]
[1:47] foreign
[1:54] thing that I struggle with which I know
[1:56] contributes to my burnout sometimes is
[2:00] that I always sort of feel like I'm late
[2:03] or that I need to rush in the past a lot
[2:06] but even now sometimes if I'm honest
[2:08] with myself I feel really anxious if I
[2:10] wasn't starting work exactly at 9am or
[2:13] if I wasn't waking up at the time that I
[2:16] had planned to wake up and eventually I
[2:18] realized this was just adding
[2:19] unnecessary stress into my life because
[2:21] I don't really have a specific time I
[2:25] need to start my day at so especially
[2:27] when I start feeling burnout coming on I
[2:30] really try to focus on having slow
[2:32] mornings because when I rush I end up
[2:34] skipping the parts of my morning routine
[2:35] that really help me feel more balanced
[2:38] and those things include taking time to
[2:40] make a breakfast that makes me happy
[2:42] like I know it wouldn't be necessary to
[2:45] arrange my smoothie bowls in such a
[2:46] picturesque way but like it brings me
[2:48] joy and lately I've been making time to
[2:51] get outside and go for like a two and a
[2:53] half kilometer walk I hope someday
[2:56] eventually it becomes a run but for now
[2:58] it's just a walk so even though my
[3:00] morning routine is really not that
[3:02] complex or exciting it's really
[3:04] important to me to just like take my
[3:06] time to do that rather than just jumping
[3:08] directly into work because I find my
[3:11] mood for the whole day suffers if I do
[3:13] that so I try to read a book while I eat
[3:15] my breakfast I listen to my like Daily
[3:17] News podcast while I
[3:21] I listen to my favorite Daily News
[3:22] podcast while I go for my walk and I
[3:25] take time to pick out an outfit that I
[3:27] feel comfortable and confident in and I
[3:30] feel like all those steps make a huge
[3:31] difference in just setting me up to have
[3:34] a happier day and I think that's the
[3:36] thing about burnout prevention it's
[3:37] really all about thinking about how you
[3:39] can optimize your happiness because so
[3:41] many of us are so conditioned to just
[3:43] try to optimize our productivity but
[3:45] when you're dealing with burnout you
[3:48] need to prioritize your mental health
[3:49] and just finding joy in the little
[3:52] things I mean the secret of that all is
[3:55] that when you are happier and more
[3:57] balanced you'll be more productive but I
[3:59] feel like you can't start from thinking
[4:00] about it from a productivity perspective
[4:02] or else
[4:03] you'll probably just get yourself
[4:05] further into burnout
[4:08] let's go start the work day
[4:11] [Music]
[4:16] today is Friday and if you've watched my
[4:18] Vlogs before then you'll know Friday is
[4:19] a filming day hence we're filming but in
[4:22] addition to that I've got some general
[4:24] admin stuff to do I need to send a few
[4:26] emails and I also want to do my weekly
[4:30] kind of file organization routine I
[4:32] talked about that up in this video but
[4:34] basically I'm going to go through the
[4:35] photos I took on my phone this week
[4:36] delete anything off my phone I don't
[4:38] need I'm going to clear off my desktop
[4:40] and downloads and I also have my b-roll
[4:43] to organize that I filmed in the last
[4:45] couple weeks that I want to make sure I
[4:46] have access to in future videos but I'm
[4:48] also just feeling like this week I've
[4:49] kind of let my desk area get very
[4:52] cluttered so after I send some emails
[4:55] I'm gonna do a little bit of tidying up
[5:03] I think another big mindset shift for me
[5:06] around the whole productivity and
[5:09] burnout thing has been realizing that
[5:11] like it's okay for things to feel easy I
[5:15] think I've always kind of been attached
[5:17] to my work ethic in a way or thinking
[5:19] that like working hard is what's really
[5:22] important in life or it makes you like a
[5:24] more valuable person or that's how
[5:27] you're going to be successful and don't
[5:28] get me wrong I'm definitely grateful for
[5:30] the hard work I've done in the past and
[5:31] I do think that things like say growing
[5:34] a YouTube channel growing a business it
[5:35] does take hard work but that doesn't
[5:37] mean that like working hard is the
[5:40] epitome of you know what you're supposed
[5:41] to be doing in life and so I've been
[5:44] trying to lean a little bit more into
[5:46] ease and telling myself like I don't
[5:48] always have to be in a rush I don't
[5:50] always have to be grinding it's okay to
[5:53] take things slow and to make things feel
[5:56] easier but I know it can be really hard
[5:58] to embrace that when you're coming from
[6:00] a perspective of feeling like hard work
[6:02] is good laziness is bad so then anything
[6:05] that kind of like feels adjacent to
[6:08] laziness you like start to feel guilty
[6:10] and I just think that's a really like
[6:11] toxic connection that we need to break
[6:13] down because you can't just Hustle Hard
[6:15] forever you need to take breaks you need
[6:17] things to feel easy sometimes and also I
[6:19] think it's a matter of like allowing
[6:21] yourself to feel like you deserve for
[6:23] things to be easy that things don't
[6:25] always have to be hard for you I think
[6:27] that can be really difficult to embrace
[6:30] this poor plant looks so sad I mean I
[6:34] think it's a stretch to call this a
[6:35] plant anymore but you know what I feel
[6:37] like this is a good metaphor for what
[6:39] can happen to you if you work yourself
[6:42] too hard and you don't make sure that
[6:44] you get the sunshine and water and rest
[6:46] that you need okay let this be a warning
[6:48] to all of us but uh actually though I
[6:51] think I'm going to take this pot and
[6:54] plant an actual living plant in there
[6:57] this weekend so
[6:59] I let it sit here way too long
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[8:05] [Music]
[8:07] this maybe sounds totally dorky but one
[8:10] of my favorite types of tasks to do is
[8:14] something that I can just kind of like
[8:15] mindlessly work through while I listen
[8:18] to a podcast because so much of what I
[8:20] do is not like that editing a video it
[8:23] you know needs your full attention
[8:24] writing scripts like strategizing stuff
[8:27] even when I do like my finances and my
[8:29] bookkeeping like I feel like I really
[8:31] need to pay attention to that so when I
[8:33] have something that I can just like kick
[8:34] back and listen to a podcast and drag
[8:37] files around I I love that that is a
[8:39] great break
[8:44] [Music]
[8:48] same Berto is actually taking breaks
[8:51] throughout the day including one for
[8:53] lunch and this week I have not been so
[8:55] good about that I've been like eating
[8:57] and working but today I'm going to
[9:01] actually stop for the next
[9:03] at least half an hour
[9:05] and just eat my lunch
[9:07] and probably watch some educational
[9:10] YouTube videos for entertainment earlier
[9:13] this week I meal prepped some pasta
[9:15] salad and it is the easiest lunch ever
[9:22] foreign
[9:24] [Applause]
[9:24] [Music]
[9:32] it's time to get back into work but I
[9:37] actually don't have a huge to-do list
[9:39] for the rest of the day I kind of got my
[9:41] admin work done this morning obviously
[9:44] I'm continuously filming this video but
[9:47] otherwise I was going to maybe do a
[9:49] little bit of work on my Vlog if you
[9:52] didn't know I have a travel Vlog channel
[9:53] it's called Katie and Dan in a van
[9:54] originally I wanted to post this video
[9:56] like weeks ago but I decided to just
[9:59] like let myself take some time with it
[10:02] and get it done when I was feeling
[10:05] inspired and had time to work on it and
[10:07] I think that's another big lesson that
[10:09] I'm trying to learn lately is that it's
[10:11] okay to slow things down it's okay to
[10:14] scale back on what you're creating every
[10:18] week especially going into the summer I
[10:21] just felt like you know a lot of people
[10:23] are taking more time off there's the
[10:25] long weekends that are happening and it
[10:27] just felt like I wanted to do less and I
[10:30] kind of realized that I was putting this
[10:32] pressure on myself
[10:33] to create all of this stuff that was
[10:37] mostly optional especially with my short
[10:39] form content like my reels I have brand
[10:42] deals on my reels like every so often
[10:45] but it's not like a super consistent
[10:46] part of my content calendar but I was
[10:49] posting three reels per week anyway just
[10:51] because that's what I sort of had been
[10:54] doing as part of my growth strategy
[10:55] obviously it was working so I wanted to
[10:57] continue and I think that there is a
[10:59] season for that there's like a time and
[11:01] a place to really like push yourself to
[11:03] get more content out to see the results
[11:04] that you want but I was just feeling so
[11:07] like overwhelmed with keeping up with
[11:10] all the content I was making so I
[11:11] decided to scale back to just making one
[11:13] reel per week at least for now probably
[11:15] for the summer I think in September I'll
[11:18] probably ramp back up to doing more but
[11:21] I think the tough thing about this is I
[11:23] know a lot of people don't talk about
[11:24] this like when you start to see results
[11:26] with the social media content you're
[11:28] posting and you see the view counts go
[11:30] up and you see your follower count
[11:32] increasing it can be really hard to stop
[11:36] doing what you're doing like you almost
[11:38] become addicted in a way to seeing those
[11:40] results we're like well I have to keep
[11:42] posting more so that you know every time
[11:44] I refresh my Instagram profile I have
[11:45] more followers but if you really sit
[11:47] back and think about it it's like well
[11:49] why do I want more followers like what
[11:52] benefit am I actually gaining from that
[11:54] other than just the dopamine hit of
[11:56] seeing higher numbers and yeah in the
[11:58] long term you know you can get more
[12:00] brand deals you can sell you know your
[12:02] product better you can scale your
[12:03] business further with a larger audience
[12:05] that's definitely true but in the short
[12:08] term day-to-day like what's the need for
[12:10] virality I think just focusing on the
[12:13] slow and steady build is a much
[12:15] healthier mindset and so especially in
[12:17] this time where I'm like feeling myself
[12:19] inching towards burnout again I'm like
[12:21] you know what I just need to really
[12:23] intentionally scale things back
[12:25] understand that I'm not going to see the
[12:27] growth that I had been seeing but that's
[12:29] okay we don't necessarily need that
[12:31] there's times where you want to work
[12:33] really hard to see a lot of growth and
[12:35] then there's some times where you just
[12:36] need to work a little less and take it
[12:39] easier so because I have scaled back my
[12:42] work over the last couple of weeks I now
[12:44] do have a little bit of time on a Friday
[12:46] afternoon to work on my passion project
[12:49] more or less which is my Vlog Channel
[12:52] [Music]
[12:58] if you have ever edited a travel Vlog
[13:01] before then you will know that this
[13:03] takes way longer than you think it would
[13:05] I've probably already spent an hour
[13:08] going through just selecting the clips
[13:11] that are going to be used in the final
[13:12] edit and Dan probably spent about like
[13:15] an hour and a half or two hours doing
[13:16] the same thing and I'm just now getting
[13:20] through day three of our Yellowstone
[13:22] footage and we have
[13:24] four days to include so I'm getting
[13:27] through it but that's just literally
[13:30] choosing what I call the selects so this
[13:33] is what the timeline looks like right
[13:35] now like obviously it's not properly
[13:37] edited at all I just have it categorized
[13:40] into different like segments and then
[13:43] the footage that we're going to use is
[13:46] underneath those little sections so this
[13:49] is just the initial step of starting to
[13:52] edit a travel Vlog once I have all of
[13:55] the actual Clips like the final pieces
[13:57] of clips that are usable sorted kind of
[14:00] in chronological order or in the order
[14:02] of the scenes that I'm going to include
[14:04] then it's gonna be actually time to
[14:06] start putting it together in terms of
[14:08] like the background music and like you
[14:11] know editing
[14:12] just like actually editing it I feel
[14:14] like I'm gonna need a coffee to get
[14:16] through this because it's so much
[14:18] there's just so much footage here
[14:23] well I finished going through the rough
[14:24] draft and actually picking out the
[14:26] selects and now the hard work begins of
[14:28] actually editing this Vlog and I am in
[14:33] dire need of coffee if I'm gonna stay
[14:35] awake to do that so I'm gonna head over
[14:37] to my favorite local coffee shop and
[14:40] work for the rest of the afternoon oh
[14:42] and I'm bringing a friend along if you
[14:44] were wondering before this is the Dan
[14:46] from Katie and Dan in a van that's uh
[14:48] that's how we know each other we have a
[14:50] YouTube channel yes
[14:52] [Music]
[14:53] ah
[14:57] see when I bring him along with me then
[14:58] I get help with my b-roll
[15:02] [Music]
[15:07] you all need to know that I was working
[15:09] on editing that Yellowstone Vlog for
[15:12] about an hour and I have completed about
[15:14] two and a half minutes of it thankfully
[15:17] it does get faster once you get past the
[15:19] intro because I always make the intro so
[15:20] action-packed and like use a ton of
[15:22] b-roll from throughout the Vlog so now
[15:25] it should just be another maybe four to
[15:28] five hours of work hopefully but I have
[15:30] decided to close that up for the day
[15:32] because it's time for my final anti-burn
[15:36] habit that I wanted to share with you
[15:38] and that is really taking time to focus
[15:41] on your hobbies I know for me a source
[15:44] of burnout is often putting too much
[15:47] weight or value on my performance in
[15:50] terms of work or my career or my
[15:53] business and I find it's healthy to like
[15:55] diversify your sort of Personality
[15:58] Investments so instead of just putting
[16:00] all of your value in your work maybe
[16:03] also put it in some different hobbies
[16:05] and for me lately that has been learning
[16:08] Spanish so I've been trying to do this
[16:10] thing every day that I call Spanish hour
[16:12] which is roughly an hour of kind of
[16:15] independent study and I have this
[16:17] checklist that I go through that kind of
[16:19] guides some techniques that I'm using to
[16:22] try to just like pick up more vocabulary
[16:25] definitely at some point I'm gonna have
[16:27] to like shift what this looks like but
[16:28] at the stage that I'm at it works well
[16:30] so I spend 15 minutes reading a literal
[16:33] children's book and I write down all the
[16:35] vocabulary that's unfamiliar to me and I
[16:37] look it up I add it to my spreadsheet
[16:40] full of my Spanish vocabulary my goal is
[16:43] to eventually have this hit a thousand
[16:45] words but I'm just at about 300 right
[16:47] now and I use this spreadsheet to
[16:49] populate these Quizlet cue cards so then
[16:51] I'll spend another 15 minutes going
[16:53] through the cue cards and quizzing
[16:55] myself and then after that I have a
[16:57] variety of other kind of like learning
[16:59] activities whether it's doing a
[17:01] worksheet or I'm taking Damon
[17:02] Dominique's course as well so that's
[17:04] what I like to do to finish off my work
[17:06] days because it's a good transition away
[17:08] from my regular work and into something
[17:10] that I'm doing just for me and I highly
[17:13] recommend especially if you work for
[17:14] yourself if you're a Creator or an
[17:16] entrepreneur to have something like this
[17:18] so that you can have another area of
[17:20] your life where you can kind of measure
[17:22] your progress and get better at
[17:24] something without it being tied to like
[17:26] how much money you're making basically I
[17:28] honestly think the biggest thing that
[17:30] you can do to prevent burnout is to
[17:33] genuinely remind yourself that you are
[17:36] worth taking care of it can be so easy
[17:38] to prioritize everything else in your
[17:41] life and if you're anything like me then
[17:42] you'll tell yourself it's okay I'm tough
[17:44] I can handle it I'll just keep working
[17:46] but trust me you can only do that for so
[17:49] long it's so important that you stop and
[17:52] take breaks and rest and take care of
[17:54] yourself so I hope this Vlog today
[17:56] inspired you to take some time time for
[17:59] yourself to build your own anti-burn out
[18:02] routines so that you have a daily
[18:03] approach to your life that's not just
[18:06] about productivity and work but also
[18:08] about taking good care of yourself it's
[18:10] not just about getting as much done as
[18:12] possible or making as much money as
[18:14] possible or getting as many new
[18:15] followers as possible is about making
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