Starting Out Right: Avoiding Founder Burnout
Founder burnout is all too common. “Just push through it.” Not! Founders need insulation from burnout. Passion, focus, and conviction can carry you only so far. Without keeping self-care, community, and the other burnout insulators in focus, many fall by the wayside. Luckily, productivity actually is greater, creativity is more accessible, and founders last longer when we keep burnout insulation inside our focus of concern. This is key – Your burnout insulation choices are not optional frills for a founder. They are productivity enhancers. And we ourselves, the Burnout Solutions, almost fell into the “optional” trap. Here’s how it went down: Our first business-planning retreat brought us face to face with questions that were, as yet, impossible to answer. “Revenue streams?” “Customer channels?’ We knew we would nail down these things, and many more. But did we know them right then, as we attempted to write our first plan? Of [...]