4 Tips on Avoiding Your Entrepreneurial Burnout
I’m sure our entrepreneurial Muslim sisters, who are running a business via social media, and other web tools, know all too well how time-consuming it can become. Not only is it time-consuming, but you can easily reach a point of burnout.
And burnout is something you want to avoid entirely because it depletes you of any creativity, energy, affects your mood, such as feeling hopeless, helpless, stressed out, among other things.
It certainly doesn’t help either that all across social media, there are business and marketing gurus who tell entrepreneurs to post 3 to 4 times a day, make unique and engaging content, and keep up with the trends. It’s like a constant machine that you’re always trying to feed.
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The truth is no one can do that, and they shouldn’t. So here are four tips to avoid burnout.
Work in intervals. There are helpful desktop and phone apps, such as “Be Focused,” that have you work for intervals of 25 minutes. Then, in between those 25-minute work intervals, you take a 5 to 15-minute break. With each pause in between your work sessions, get up, drink something, and walk around. This style of working will help to not only avoid burnout but stay focused as well.
Ignore Those Marketing Gurus. No, you do not and should not have to post every single day, twice, or even three times a day. If you need time to set the phone down and not look at social media, do that.
Periodic Assessment of Goals. To realign yourself when you’re feeling most burned out from your entrepreneurial duties, step away from your work, and write down your goals to remind yourself what it is that you’re doing and what aim you’re trying to accomplish. This
Develop a Business Plan With your Health in Mind. Make sure your plan encompasses the method of baby steps. This way, your mental health isn’t exasperated by trying to always keep up with social media. A devised goal plan also helps to avoid brain scatter, where you don’t know where to start each day.
