Burnout And How To Handle It

Burnout!

Job burnout.  How do you handle it.  How does one recover from job burnout?  How do you cure burnout?  Are there burnout symptoms?  If you got it, how do you overcome the burnout  What about career burnout?

Grant Cardone is a New York Times bestselling author business and sales training expert.  Grant’s been going hard for just over thirty years.  For Grant, being an entrepreneur is one of the most exciting things you can do with your life and the possibilities are endless.

One question that Grant gets asked at almost every seminar that he does, is “how do you handle burnout?

Grant’s reply is fast and simple, he does not believe in burnout.

“That is right,” Grant says, “I do not believe in burn out.”

He continues, “Now I know that if you are experiencing the exhaustion that is associated with this idea of burnout (that nobody can prove by the way) it just seems impossible to you that burnout does not exist, but I’m telling you listen to me:  burnout is not real.  It is made up!”

Burnout Test:

Step 1:  Try to remember a time when you were on fire.  When  you were lit up and excited about being an entrepreneur.

Do you still feel the burnout?  No, it’s gone right?

This is what Grant is telling you.  Go back to the time when you were lit up, on fire, you couldn’t sleep at night, you did not need to eat, all you needed was the dream of the future for this idea, this business or whatever.

See at that time you were goal driven. The possibilities were so enormous that they fed you.  You were mission driven!

So burnout happens when the mission is missing.  Burnout happens when the mission goes away.   That is when a person starts to experience being tapped out or burned out or exhausted.

Grant says this has been his experience,  “Look when I am not tapped fully into my future , my goals, my potential, the possibilities, I do not care what the job is.  Whether it was me when I was working at McDonald’s, the country club, I was working on a rig down in the Gulf of Mexico or whether I was writing my first book. Look when your goals are not big enough, when you are no longer sold on your vision, your purpose, your mission the symptoms of losing interest (what many call burnout) are experienced.”

Anytime one stops reaching for massive success, the next thing that happens is one starts settling.  They start getting comfortable.

Symptoms of Burnout:

  • I just want to settle down.
  • I just want to be comfortable
  • If I can just get…
  • I just want to be happy

Why don’t you decide to hate your life?   This is when you start having problems.  This is when you start settling.  This is why comfort and complacency is the entrepreneur’s worst enemy.

In fact Grant will tell you that this comfort and complacency is everybody’s worst enemy.

The only time Grant has ever gotten in trouble in his life was when he was bored and complacent.  When he was settling.

Who wants average? Nobody wants it. Nobody, no matter where they are at in life, wants average.   Yet, we are surrounded by average people everyday, average ideas, average products, average advertising.

“Only those that have given up on greatness would settle for average.”  -Grant Cardone

Saying I just want to be comfortable is very dangerous.   It is very dangerous to consider the idea of comfort.  It is the lack of the “comfort mentality”  that sets entrepreneurs and businesses apart.  It is what makes people great.  People who say I do not want to be average.

Consider business, consider the number of businesses or maybe even people you know that were once great, that were once on fire, that were doing great things and then they settled down into complacency.  They started to rest on their rewards.

Recently Grant was written by a woman who told him, “Thank you Grant, today I was fired.  I read your book the 10X Rule and the same week I was fired for being too competitive.”

This woman was fired for being too competitive, too on fire!

She continues, “oh, and by the way Grant thank you because I had six job offers by the end of the week.”

This is exactly where you want to be even if you are at risk. Entrepreneurs are often criticized for working too hard.  Have you been criticized lately?   It’s OK.  Be criticized, be obsessed over your future, be consumed by the possibilities.  Others will criticize you. The ambitious should never apologize.   The only people that criticize the ambitious are the people that have given up.

Get excited, be excited, stay excited and never settle.