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In this podcast I am going to talk about how to avoid burnouts, become more productive and not crash and burn every 3 months. Also, I am going to talk about why very successful people have burnouts. 

Most people do not have burnouts, but I have noticed that when you truly work super hard and you are a high achiever, you have these experiences when you just crash, burn and your productivity goes down, down for many weeks and it takes many weeks to recover. So, if you do not want this to happen to you, watch this podcast and implement some of the tips that I am going to teach you.

Hey Matt, so you had a burnout this year. What happened exactly? Yes, I had a burnout and I was in a hospital. I was working really, really hard and at some point I went to the hospital. I just got really tired and exhausted and I did not want to work, I did not see any reason to work. I lost my momentum, I lost my motivation. Why would I work? Why do I even want money? I will just lie on my bed and eat kebap all day. 

This guy here is a hustler. When he started his business, these were the fastest results I have ever seen in business. He has already been in business for 5 months and now he is travelling the world, running a company and coaching people and all that kind of stuff, while running his business that funds his life. This guy is a hustler. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. 

If we are going to talk about burnouts, we are going to talk about stress, because stress contributes to burnouts. So, how do people get stressed? People get stressed primarily, when they are going to do something and they procrastinate and their mental RAM gets filled up with all these projects and all the things that they are going to do. It becomes super stressful, because you know you have to do something and you have not done it yet and you are procrastinating and you are doing it incorrectly and you are judging yourself and that builds stress and that helps you, drives you towards a burnout. 

So, my solution to stress is to be a slave to the calendar. Being a slave to the calendar means that you commit to listing everything that you do, all your habits, all your activities, every little detail in you google calendar, whatever you use for a calendar and then following up with that. Because you put everything in a calendar, you cannot make it boring or only working. 

That brings me to the second point that helps me avoid burnouts. It is to celebrate your successes and have days off. Like Sunday, I do not work. I just film some videos on Sunday. I do not do the hard stressful activities that I usually do. 

You need that day, you need to think about other stuff that are just fun and relaxing like lying on the beach, going to SPA and filming videos and podcasts in my case. This helps you deload and balance your life. And probably you do it without internet. Internet is very stressful, replying to your messages is very stressful, looking at your notifications in Facebook is very stressful. 

So, disconnect from that for at least one day per week and that will contribute to you having resistance vs burnouts and stress. 

Another tip on preventing burnouts is to pay attention to what you spend time on in terms of the processes and activities in your business. If you are spending half of your day handling refunds and trying to get people to pay you and they refuse to pay you. This is super stressful and if you are spending half of your day doing taxes, these are very stressful activities, because there are many thing that could go wrong and then it is out of your control.  

What you can do is to easily outsource tasks like customer support, receiving payments, doing tax stuff for the government. You can outsource very, very cheaply.

How To Relieve Stress In Business  (The Truth)

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Making a commitment is a big deal. If you make a commitment to doing something, something magical happens where you know that what you are doing on a daily basis is going to pay off. However, It’s not something you should jump into if you aren’t ready. You should feel confident and believe in your skills that you are capable of doing it.

It is very hard to create 2 videos a day for several years, but I made a commitment to do it. The secret is that you have to commit to it 100%. You don’t have any other option. That is a life or death situation and you will find a way to make that happen no matter what it costs.

Sometimes, you might not be in a good mood or you don’t have any idea what you are going to talk about, but you do it anyway, because you must do it.

Even though you know that you cannot come up with the best ideas and the best content, you know that this is going to help the business grow. That is what motivates you to push yourself and do it. That is the type of commitment that is necessary to build any business. 

People think that if they send a few proposals and do several sales calls, they will be done for the day and they have done enormous amount of work.

Enough work means that you have to do all the work that is in your capabilities on a daily basis. 

How to do 2 videos a day.

I choose a topic, turn on my camera or my phone and I start recording. I usually talk about what my students have asked me on my calls. That is already proven to work. I see that people follow my YouTube channel and like my content on social media. I have built a brand based on the type of videos I am creating right now.

Usually, the time when I don’t want to work, but I do it anyways, I experience the most growth. I am doing the most amount of work when I don’t feel like working. As a result, the best month this year, my business did $100K in revenue with 50% profit margin.

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Welcome to the Aleksander Vitkin Podcast. My name is Aleksander Vitkin. On this podcast I share with you business, sales advice and I talk to the world’s top experts in their fields related to business.

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