Dreading Monday After 11 Years?
34sRelatable confession about losing passion despite success hooks entrepreneurs and professionals who feel the same.
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I run a bookkeeping firm doing about 1.1 million a year. On paper, everything's fine. Good revenue, steady clients. 11 years in, but I dread Monday mornings. I think I've just run out of reasons to care. And I can't tell if I need a break or if I've outgrown the whole thing, and I'm too scared to admit it. >> What you are dealing with is something that people refer to as burnout. But burnout from a behavioral definition
means that the number and intensity of reward you experience for doing something has decreased. So you either got used to it or it's not coming as often as it used to for the same level of work. And so you did stuff to get an outcome. It used to be rewarding. It is no longer. And so the thought is, okay, well then do I need to take a break because you think that when you come back it's
going to somehow reward you differently or I need to stop doing this altogether which all this makes sense to be clear. I think you need to be challenged in new ways. Like imagine playing a video game over and over again and you beat the same boss but you never go to the next level. You just keep beating it. At some point you don't even feel like playing anymore. And so this is the exact situation you're in,
which is that you need to go to the next level and you need to face the next boss, which for you is going to be hiring more people to actually expand this thing, learning how to market and sell so you can fill their calendars up and actually turn this into a larger business. And to be clear, I'm only answering this because that's what you said. Many people would be very happy with 1.1 million a year.