📰 Articles

Creative Burnout Is Knocking On Your Door. Don’t Answer. | Communication Arts
“By examining the career of Jim Carrey, Ernie Schenck charts a roadmap for dealing with creative burnout.”

Mindful apathy: How to cope with emotional burnout | The Retriever
“Apathy protects us from crumbling under the weight of the world’s problems, but it is a slippery slope.”

The new age of perfectionism | New Statesman
“If you believe that perfectionism has upsides, Thomas Curran, a psychologist at the London School of Economics, would like to disabuse you of this.”

The achievement society is burning us out, we need more play | Psyche Ideas
“We are obsessed with work. It shapes our identities, gives our lives structure, and guides us towards our purpose in life. As Americans, work is who we are. We believe that our achievements and productivity not only define us but also pave the way for success and happiness.”

How to turn everyday stress into ‘optimal stress’ | McKinsey & Company
“Chronic stress [opens] the door to burnout at work—a toxic mix of exhaustion, reduced professional efficacy, and increased cynicism about work that research from Gallup suggests affects about two-thirds of full-time workers at any given time.”

📻 Podcasts

Burned Out? Start Here. | The Ezra Klein Show
“I like to begin each year with an episode about something I’m working through more personally. And at the end of last year, the thing I needed to work through was a pretty bad case of burnout.”

Tasha Golden: Avoid burnout while pursuing creativity with passion | Design Better
“As designers and creatives, we often find our work to be meaningful and fulfilling. But creativity can also come at a price. There can be a danger of burning out when we pursue creativity with passion, and our guest today, Tasha Golden, has experienced this herself.”

The easiest way to stay consistent and get results in your business is by automating key meetings and work sessions. By scheduling these essential check-ins, you’ll reduce friction, stay on track, and make steady progress. Here are five must-schedule sessions to keep your business running smoothly:

  1. Big Picture Meeting – Step back from daily tasks and focus on major projects, decisions, and actions that will move your business forward.
  2. Status Check-In – Meet with yourself or your team to review active projects, troubleshoot pain points, and stay on top of pressing tasks.
  3. Finance Review – Track your income and expenses, update your budget, and handle bills to stay financially sound.
  4. Content Work Session – Analyze past content performance, develop new ideas, refine in-progress posts, and connect with collaborators.
  5. Personal Reset – Clean your workspace, organize tasks, run errands, or meal prep to keep both your space and mind clear.

Lock these into your calendar and watch how consistency turns into progress.

“Diagrams are always useful focal points for starting discussions, and that’s one reason I like using the starfish diagram for a retrospective. This particular retrospective technique helps people by getting them to reflect on varying degrees of things that they want to bring up, without having it fit into the black or white category of ‘What Went Well’ or ‘Not So Well’ so I think it scales a little bit better.”

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