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5. You Never Think It Will Implode…Until It Does

When I was in my 30s, I had more than a few people tell me that one day I was going to burn out.

My first mistake was that I didn’t believe them. I felt invincible—like the rules didn’t apply to me.

And that’s the problem with leaders. The rules never apply to you, until they do.

They did. And I burned out.

The problem with true burn out is that once you’re past the burnout line, you lose all control. You can’t get yourself back quickly or easily.

Personally, if you’ve seen yourself in this article, I would encourage you to listen before you slip into burnout.

And even if you never burn out, living today in a way that compromises tomorrow is a mistake. Why would you want to keep hurting your family, your leadership and your life?

So How Do You Find Healthy Patterns That Help You Thrive?

What if you don’t need to live that way anymore? Can you have a much higher impact at work AND get your personal life back on track?

Actually, you can.

By the grace of God and with the help of some incredible people, I did come back from burnout and was able to keep leading; this time, far more healthily than before.

A decade on the other side of my burnout, I’ve never felt more alive in my life and leadership than I do now. And what’s strange (at least to me) is that my marriage has never been better, I feel like I have ample time AND I’m leading far more than I ever did before I burned out.

The #1 question other leaders ask me is this: How do you get it all done?

That question is why I’ve created The High Impact Leader CourseCheck it out here—new enrollment is open for just a few short days.

This 10-session online course will show you highly practical, proven strategies on how to finally get time, energy and priorities working in your favor. It includes 10 videos, an online workbook and 10 specific exercises that will help you create a personalized plan to help you get productive and accomplish the things you know are most important, but rarely have time for.

And you can do this without burning out.

The course, which proceeds at your personal pace whenever you’re ready to tackle a unit, is designed to help you:

Get your most important priorities done early in the week, every week.

Spend more of your time at work doing the things that energize you and less time doing the things that drain you.

Invest more of your time with the people who energize you and less time with the people who drain you.