May 28, 2024 • 19 mins
In this episode, Gina delves into the nuances of prioritizing work and family life in the realm of occupational therapy. With a focus on avoiding burnout, she explores strategies for balancing competing priorities, from client care to personal obligations. Through insightful anecdotes and practical advice, Gina guides listeners through the process of identifying strengths, managing workload, and embracing burnout busters for sustainable practice.
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Microphone (3- Logitech U (00:00):
Well, what a month may has been.
(00:03):
It has been filled with allkinds of surprises for us here
at opponent therapy services.
And has been.
A busy month with the equineassessment challenge.
And welcoming new members intobusiness barn raising and after
all this activity.
(00:25):
It is a good time to take abreak and talk about priorities
and avoiding burnout.
Let's get started.
(00:51):
Hi, I'm Gina, your host.
Welcome to animals and aquaticsand occupational therapy.
I'm so glad that you've joinedus today.
In this episode, here we go atthe end of may.
I want to take a little bit oftime to talk about something
that's really been on my mindlately.
Priorities and avoiding burnout.
And in this work that we'redoing, those two things are
(01:14):
really important and having timeto disconnect and focus on
things that are reallymeaningful are definitely a key
tenant in nature-based practiceas well as occupational therapy
itself.
And when we take time to reallyhonor this, I think that's one
of those important moments wherewe stay true to what
(01:34):
occupational therapy is.
And it gives back to us aspractitioners, which then gives
back to our clients.
So for priorities, if you'velistened to me for any length of
time, and if you've beenfollowing along with the
podcast, you know that I'm not afan of the phrase, work life
balance.
(01:55):
Because really, it never feelsbalanced.
And I prefer to think of it aspriorities.
Work-life priorities.
What's most important right now.
And those things change.
They change seasonally.
They change with seasons oflife.
They change with different focuspoints and they're different for
(02:18):
family priorities versusbusiness priorities.
So let's talk about businesspriorities.
First.
Now we have different prioritiesat different times in our
business, and that's a reallyimportant thing to focus on.
Sometimes we're really focusedon clients.
And getting new clients,onboarding clients, doing
(02:39):
evaluations, plan of careupdates.
Servicing clients is somethingthat we're always doing, but
that really pushed for bringingin new clients, is something
that can be a priority for aperiod of time.
When you're looking at buildingout your caseload.
Developing programs, that can bea priority.
(03:03):
In a business for a period oftime where you're really focused
on coming up with your keyprogramming elements.
So for us, it would be thehippotherapy side of things, the
aquatics side of things, andthen any nature based
programming that we run.
And that can especially take offa little more during the
(03:23):
summertime or spring, likespring and summer, where the
weather is really conducive toour nature based services.
So that's another rare, anotherarea where we can think about
priorities.
We can have a priority of focuson programming.
Now our finances.
That's something that needs tobe a priority.
(03:46):
If you're running a business.
You are finances need to be apriority.
You need to be able to makeenough money to sustain yourself
and your business as well.
So looking at your business asits own entity, it has its own
bills that need to be paid.
And even if you're a solopreneurand you're running a pretty
tight ship.
You still are going to havecosts for email service website.
(04:12):
Communicating with clients in asecure fashion.
So that again, maybe that emailservice and these expenses
typically aren't very large, butthey do add up.
Then we have things like ourprofessional liability insurance
that is a larger component.
As you grow, you may be gettinginto having an EMR system.
(04:35):
So that's an additional coststhat you're bringing on.
So at the very, very, very leastyour business financial priority
needs to be for the business tobe able to sustain itself.
But above and beyond that.
Why are we doing this workright?
And often that is to support ourfamilies.
(04:57):
To support ourselves to.
Grow as professionals.
And if our business can'tsupport us in doing that, Then
we really get to a turning pointwhere we need to make other
career decisions that willsustain us.
So looking at priorities aroundfinances is really important and
there's a lot of different booksthat can support you.
(05:20):
And in this process, profitfirst is a good one in looking
at different ways to payyourself first, make sure that
you are paying yourself asustainable wage, so you can
continue to do the work that youwant to do.
And we often have facilitypartners that we're paying as
well.
It's not just us as you grow.
(05:41):
Even larger.
You may have teams that you'resupporting.
So those financial prioritiesare always a part of our
business.
And change.
If that's not something that youreally feel is a priority for
you.
Then volunteering may be abetter situation.
If this is something you'rereally doing as a labor of love,
(06:01):
you may actually get a lot moresatisfaction out of a
volunteering situation where youhave some more flexibility.
In.
Your volunteer situation, whatyou're willing to offer your
role in that particularorganization that you choose to
partner with?
So I would say if finances aresomething that is not a priority
(06:24):
for you that may be another areaor avenue to consider,
especially if you're justgetting started and you want to
gain some experience working ina specialized or niche area of
practice.
I think that's something that'sdefinitely valuable.
So in our business priorities,again, we're looking at
finances.
We might be looking at growingthe business.
(06:44):
So that's our client side ofthings.
We may be looking at ourprogramming.
We may be looking at teammembers.
Because when we're working in aniche area of practice, like
specializing in hippotherapy oraquatics.
Or incorporating other farmanimals in, we do work in a team
format, so we need to consider.
(07:05):
Who is on our therapy team.
Our horse handlers are animalexperts.
Our pool deck hands.
All of those people are superimportant.
And can be a focus or a priorityin our business.
Now in our family, as we oftenhave priorities, too, that may
be raising young children.
It may be helping a sickrelative.
(07:26):
It may be that sandwichgeneration of raising children
and helping your aging parents.
It may be travel and adventure,right?
That may be a family priority.
And I like to think I getcoaching for my business.
And this last year, I've alsosigned up for coaching for my
(07:46):
role as a mother.
As a family member.
As.
Being part of parenting.
And a lot of times we it'sreally easy to justify the
business coaching, but it wascertainly a lot harder to
justify that family coaching.
And as an occupational therapyprovider, we can think about the
(08:09):
different roles.
That we assume, and mother andparent and wife.
are huge roles for me right now.
And I definitely want to taketime to honor those and assume
those roles.
So in those areas, in the areaof family priorities, Again, it
(08:29):
may be taking time to be acaregiver.
Or an educator, we are a part ofthe homeschooling community.
And so being an educator outsideof the occupational therapy
assistant program, that I'm aneducator in, but being an
educator within my own home.
That's another area that can bea priority for us.
(08:52):
So when we look at thosepriorities of family and we look
at those priorities of business,We have to decide what order
we're going to put them in rightnow.
And those orders can changedepending on what is most
important, what do we need tofocus on?
And that may be different foryou and your partner.
(09:14):
When you're working together, ifyou're a husband, wife team,
like I am with Ryan, we have todecide where we're going to
focus our priorities on and.
Those are really importantdiscussions to have, and they
can be really hard to have,especially when you share a
business together and have tomake some tough decisions about
(09:35):
what direction the business isgoing to go, what direction your
family priorities are going togo.
And like I said, may has been areally busy month for us because
we're gearing up for summer andwe're looking at those business
priorities.
We're looking at familypriorities.
And making those decisions hasbeen both challenging and
(09:59):
rewarding.
And then having things going ononline, like the equine
assessment challenge and gettingbusiness barn raising open to
new members and looking forwardto working with those new
members and really helping themon their journey incorporating
hippotherapy.
I also have online courses thatI'll be teaching with the
(10:21):
American hippotherapyassociation in June and July.
So if you are looking for.
The aha or American hippotherapyassociation courses.
I will be teaching one in Juneand one in July.
So I'd love to see you in one ofmy courses that I'm teaching,
but that's a lot of differentthings going on.
And certainly as I've gotten tothe end of the month here, I'm
(10:44):
feeling tired, I'm feeling alittle burnout.
And I know that I do need toaddress that.
So I can take a look at mypriority list and I can take a
look at the things that I knowthat helped me deal with
burnout.
And.
Often in our industry andoccupational therapy or in
(11:05):
healthcare, when we think aboutburnout, We often think about
that traditional clinicalsetting.
Where the productivity standardsare 90 to 95%.
And you're going from one clientto another.
It's an administration thatmaybe doesn't understand
occupational therapy or thehealthcare needs of the clients.
And those things can really leadto that frustration and burnout.
(11:28):
But when we think about nichepractice, when we think about
nature based practice, we don'tthink about burnout as a key
feature.
We actually think about it as anantidote to burnout, and there
are some wonderful facets toprivate practice.
And nature-based practice thatare antidotes to burnout.
(11:49):
The ability to be outside withour clients and to get some
fresh air and sunshine and hearthe bird sing.
Is definitely an antidote toburnout being out in nature.
And just soaking in thegreenness of springtime can be
an antidote to burnout.
But there are also things inprivate practice and
(12:11):
nature-based practice that maybearen't so fun to talk about, but
definitely contribute to thatfeeling of burnout.
And for me, those are jugglingcompeting priorities.
So those family priorities thatfor us are very high right now
with young children, homeeducation, really wanting to
fulfill that role as mom andparent.
(12:34):
And the needs of the business.
So serving our clients well,working with our partner
facilities, coordinatingfieldwork students, putting that
whole package together.
Those are two competingpriorities and being able to
say, I need to take a break andfocus on one more than the other
(12:55):
is really important.
As I said, we just welcomed innew members to business barn
raising and being able to takesome time and really focus on
their journey is important to metoo.
So that's a key component thatI'm looking at when bringing in
some antidotes for myself toburn out.
I don't want to get to the pointwhere I don't want to do this
(13:16):
work at all.
I don't want to get to the pointwhere I am so frustrated in my
role as mom or home educator orcaregiver that I'm not doing
that role very well either.
And so some of the steps that Itake are making that priority
list.
So first thing is to make thepriority list, sit down, write
(13:39):
down all the competing thingsthat are going on.
And I broke them into two quote,unquote, neat categories of work
and family, but it's reallymuch, much more broad than that,
right?
Because under family, there's anumber of different things.
Both my children, my marriage.
Extended family and obligationsthat come along with that
(14:01):
there's healthcare needs andsummer.
Activities that we want to do.
There's a variety of things thatcome under that family category.
Of priorities and same withbusiness.
Right?
I put it as a work category.
But we would have my work.
We would have Ryan's work as anoccupational therapy assistant.
(14:22):
I have my work as a occupationaltherapy assistant educator.
So the professor hat.
The clinician hat.
The online coach hat, the ahafaculty hat, Right?, and those
are all competing priorities.
Or those are all priorities thatneed to have a place.
(14:43):
And they need to have a placethat is commeasured with where
I'm at right now.
So when you are thinking aboutcreating your own priority list,
it's important to, to categorizethings maybe into big categories
and then subcategories.
And write out all the thingsthat you have going on in those
(15:03):
categories right now.
Then in that next stage isthinking about where your
strengths are.
And I did a podcast episoderecently on stress spaced
programming.
And I think this is a great wayto look at.
Setting up priorities.
And so looking at, where areyour strengths?
What are the things that reallybring a kind of spark to your
(15:25):
day?
They bring you energy.
They helped to fill your cup.
Right.
Those are great burnout busters.
After I've made my prioritylist, Then I go to my strengths
list.
And I start to look at wherethere's matches and where
there's mismatches.
So some things that arepriorities for me that are also
(15:46):
in my strengths, wheelhouse,right.
They get like a gold star.
And some things that are on mypriority list, but are on my
weakness list.
Things that really detract fromme.
Those are on my.
How can I manage these?
Can I stop doing them?
Can I partner with somebody whowould enjoy doing them more?
(16:09):
Can I outsource them.
Can I find somebody else to dothem.
I do have a virtual assistantthat works with me and helps me.
There are some things that I canoutsource.
There are other things that Ican't Right?.
I'm the only one that can dothem- the teaching the coaching,
those types of things.
So those are things that I can'toutsource.
(16:31):
And then finding out what isgoing to take the front burners.
And what's going to take theback burners and what's going to
come off the stove right now.
I heard an analogy once of,Basically we can manage about
four things.
So thinking about a stove top.
(16:52):
We have our main bar burners,our front burners.
And then we have those backburners.
And so we can we can juggle thepots around, but we can't put
more than four pots on thestove.
And when you get to that pointthat you have more than four
pots on the stove, you need totake a little look at that and
decide, okay.
Where can I juggle some thingsaround?
Where can I work with thesepriorities after I've gone ahead
(17:15):
and looked at my strengths?
The next thing I'm going to comein with my burnout busters.
These are things that I knowrefill me.
They give me relief.
They help to ignite that sparkagain.
So for me, some of the burnoutbusters are timeout in nature,
disconnecting from social mediaor my phone.
(17:39):
Really going offline, camping,hiking, those things that really
immerse me in nature with myfamily.
Where there's no professionalexpectation.
As much as I love my naturebased practice, there's still a
professional expectation there,but when I go camping I can just
be right.
I can be in nature.
I can be around the smokycampfire.
(18:01):
I can just be with my family andI know that really helps to fill
my cup back up.
So coming up in June, we have aweek that we're going and
camping and I know that that'ssomething that fills me up.
So as we get ready to wrap upthis episode, I will be taking a
(18:22):
little break from the podcast.
As I focus on our new members ofbusiness barn, raising.
As I focus on my role as mom andhome educator.
And take a little break from thepodcast so I can disconnect and
I can have a little bit of abreak.
So, if you have been listeningalong, there will be a little
(18:46):
break in our weekly episodes,but I do have a number of
interviews scheduled.
So when business barn raisingwraps up, the podcast will pop
right back on.
And we'll have some prettyawesome interviews coming up.
After business barn raisingwraps up.
So I hope today was helpful inlooking at priorities, both
(19:07):
those within the work and careersetting, as well as the ones
that are part of your familysetting or your life setting
right now, as well as looking atways to combat burnout, even in
niche practice, where you reallydo love what you do so much.
But sometimes wearing all thehats can be a little bit much,
(19:28):
and you can find those burnoutbusters for yourself.
Focus on your strengths basedprogramming.
Look at your priority list andreally focus on those things
that are going to bring you themost joy.
I hope this has been helpful andI'll be back soon.
Well, what a month may has been.
(00:03):
It has been filled with allkinds of surprises for us here
at opponent therapy services.
And has been.
A busy month with the equineassessment challenge.
And welcoming new members intobusiness barn raising and after
all this activity.
(00:25):
It is a good time to take abreak and talk about priorities
and avoiding burnout.
Let's get started.
(00:51):
Hi, I'm Gina, your host.
Welcome to animals and aquaticsand occupational therapy.
I'm so glad that you've joinedus today.
In this episode, here we go atthe end of may.
I want to take a little bit oftime to talk about something
that's really been on my mindlately.
Priorities and avoiding burnout.
And in this work that we'redoing, those two things are
(01:14):
really important and having timeto disconnect and focus on
things that are reallymeaningful are definitely a key
tenant in nature-based practiceas well as occupational therapy
itself.
And when we take time to reallyhonor this, I think that's one
of those important moments wherewe stay true to what
(01:34):
occupational therapy is.
And it gives back to us aspractitioners, which then gives
back to our clients.
So for priorities, if you'velistened to me for any length of
time, and if you've beenfollowing along with the
podcast, you know that I'm not afan of the phrase, work life
balance.
(01:55):
Because really, it never feelsbalanced.
And I prefer to think of it aspriorities.
Work-life priorities.
What's most important right now.
And those things change.
They change seasonally.
They change with seasons oflife.
They change with different focuspoints and they're different for
(02:18):
family priorities versusbusiness priorities.
So let's talk about businesspriorities.
First.
Now we have different prioritiesat different times in our
business, and that's a reallyimportant thing to focus on.
Sometimes we're really focusedon clients.
And getting new clients,onboarding clients, doing
(02:39):
evaluations, plan of careupdates.
Servicing clients is somethingthat we're always doing, but
that really pushed for bringingin new clients, is something
that can be a priority for aperiod of time.
When you're looking at buildingout your caseload.
Developing programs, that can bea priority.
(03:03):
In a business for a period oftime where you're really focused
on coming up with your keyprogramming elements.
So for us, it would be thehippotherapy side of things, the
aquatics side of things, andthen any nature based
programming that we run.
And that can especially take offa little more during the
(03:23):
summertime or spring, likespring and summer, where the
weather is really conducive toour nature based services.
So that's another rare, anotherarea where we can think about
priorities.
We can have a priority of focuson programming.
Now our finances.
That's something that needs tobe a priority.
(03:46):
If you're running a business.
You are finances need to be apriority.
You need to be able to makeenough money to sustain yourself
and your business as well.
So looking at your business asits own entity, it has its own
bills that need to be paid.
And even if you're a solopreneurand you're running a pretty
tight ship.
You still are going to havecosts for email service website.
(04:12):
Communicating with clients in asecure fashion.
So that again, maybe that emailservice and these expenses
typically aren't very large, butthey do add up.
Then we have things like ourprofessional liability insurance
that is a larger component.
As you grow, you may be gettinginto having an EMR system.
(04:35):
So that's an additional coststhat you're bringing on.
So at the very, very, very leastyour business financial priority
needs to be for the business tobe able to sustain itself.
But above and beyond that.
Why are we doing this workright?
And often that is to support ourfamilies.
(04:57):
To support ourselves to.
Grow as professionals.
And if our business can'tsupport us in doing that, Then
we really get to a turning pointwhere we need to make other
career decisions that willsustain us.
So looking at priorities aroundfinances is really important and
there's a lot of different booksthat can support you.
(05:20):
And in this process, profitfirst is a good one in looking
at different ways to payyourself first, make sure that
you are paying yourself asustainable wage, so you can
continue to do the work that youwant to do.
And we often have facilitypartners that we're paying as
well.
It's not just us as you grow.
(05:41):
Even larger.
You may have teams that you'resupporting.
So those financial prioritiesare always a part of our
business.
And change.
If that's not something that youreally feel is a priority for
you.
Then volunteering may be abetter situation.
If this is something you'rereally doing as a labor of love,
(06:01):
you may actually get a lot moresatisfaction out of a
volunteering situation where youhave some more flexibility.
In.
Your volunteer situation, whatyou're willing to offer your
role in that particularorganization that you choose to
partner with?
So I would say if finances aresomething that is not a priority
(06:24):
for you that may be another areaor avenue to consider,
especially if you're justgetting started and you want to
gain some experience working ina specialized or niche area of
practice.
I think that's something that'sdefinitely valuable.
So in our business priorities,again, we're looking at
finances.
We might be looking at growingthe business.
(06:44):
So that's our client side ofthings.
We may be looking at ourprogramming.
We may be looking at teammembers.
Because when we're working in aniche area of practice, like
specializing in hippotherapy oraquatics.
Or incorporating other farmanimals in, we do work in a team
format, so we need to consider.
(07:05):
Who is on our therapy team.
Our horse handlers are animalexperts.
Our pool deck hands.
All of those people are superimportant.
And can be a focus or a priorityin our business.
Now in our family, as we oftenhave priorities, too, that may
be raising young children.
It may be helping a sickrelative.
(07:26):
It may be that sandwichgeneration of raising children
and helping your aging parents.
It may be travel and adventure,right?
That may be a family priority.
And I like to think I getcoaching for my business.
And this last year, I've alsosigned up for coaching for my
(07:46):
role as a mother.
As a family member.
As.
Being part of parenting.
And a lot of times we it'sreally easy to justify the
business coaching, but it wascertainly a lot harder to
justify that family coaching.
And as an occupational therapyprovider, we can think about the
(08:09):
different roles.
That we assume, and mother andparent and wife.
are huge roles for me right now.
And I definitely want to taketime to honor those and assume
those roles.
So in those areas, in the areaof family priorities, Again, it
(08:29):
may be taking time to be acaregiver.
Or an educator, we are a part ofthe homeschooling community.
And so being an educator outsideof the occupational therapy
assistant program, that I'm aneducator in, but being an
educator within my own home.
That's another area that can bea priority for us.
(08:52):
So when we look at thosepriorities of family and we look
at those priorities of business,We have to decide what order
we're going to put them in rightnow.
And those orders can changedepending on what is most
important, what do we need tofocus on?
And that may be different foryou and your partner.
(09:14):
When you're working together, ifyou're a husband, wife team,
like I am with Ryan, we have todecide where we're going to
focus our priorities on and.
Those are really importantdiscussions to have, and they
can be really hard to have,especially when you share a
business together and have tomake some tough decisions about
(09:35):
what direction the business isgoing to go, what direction your
family priorities are going togo.
And like I said, may has been areally busy month for us because
we're gearing up for summer andwe're looking at those business
priorities.
We're looking at familypriorities.
And making those decisions hasbeen both challenging and
(09:59):
rewarding.
And then having things going ononline, like the equine
assessment challenge and gettingbusiness barn raising open to
new members and looking forwardto working with those new
members and really helping themon their journey incorporating
hippotherapy.
I also have online courses thatI'll be teaching with the
(10:21):
American hippotherapyassociation in June and July.
So if you are looking for.
The aha or American hippotherapyassociation courses.
I will be teaching one in Juneand one in July.
So I'd love to see you in one ofmy courses that I'm teaching,
but that's a lot of differentthings going on.
And certainly as I've gotten tothe end of the month here, I'm
(10:44):
feeling tired, I'm feeling alittle burnout.
And I know that I do need toaddress that.
So I can take a look at mypriority list and I can take a
look at the things that I knowthat helped me deal with
burnout.
And.
Often in our industry andoccupational therapy or in
(11:05):
healthcare, when we think aboutburnout, We often think about
that traditional clinicalsetting.
Where the productivity standardsare 90 to 95%.
And you're going from one clientto another.
It's an administration thatmaybe doesn't understand
occupational therapy or thehealthcare needs of the clients.
And those things can really leadto that frustration and burnout.
(11:28):
But when we think about nichepractice, when we think about
nature based practice, we don'tthink about burnout as a key
feature.
We actually think about it as anantidote to burnout, and there
are some wonderful facets toprivate practice.
And nature-based practice thatare antidotes to burnout.
(11:49):
The ability to be outside withour clients and to get some
fresh air and sunshine and hearthe bird sing.
Is definitely an antidote toburnout being out in nature.
And just soaking in thegreenness of springtime can be
an antidote to burnout.
But there are also things inprivate practice and
(12:11):
nature-based practice that maybearen't so fun to talk about, but
definitely contribute to thatfeeling of burnout.
And for me, those are jugglingcompeting priorities.
So those family priorities thatfor us are very high right now
with young children, homeeducation, really wanting to
fulfill that role as mom andparent.
(12:34):
And the needs of the business.
So serving our clients well,working with our partner
facilities, coordinatingfieldwork students, putting that
whole package together.
Those are two competingpriorities and being able to
say, I need to take a break andfocus on one more than the other
(12:55):
is really important.
As I said, we just welcomed innew members to business barn
raising and being able to takesome time and really focus on
their journey is important to metoo.
So that's a key component thatI'm looking at when bringing in
some antidotes for myself toburn out.
I don't want to get to the pointwhere I don't want to do this
(13:16):
work at all.
I don't want to get to the pointwhere I am so frustrated in my
role as mom or home educator orcaregiver that I'm not doing
that role very well either.
And so some of the steps that Itake are making that priority
list.
So first thing is to make thepriority list, sit down, write
(13:39):
down all the competing thingsthat are going on.
And I broke them into two quote,unquote, neat categories of work
and family, but it's reallymuch, much more broad than that,
right?
Because under family, there's anumber of different things.
Both my children, my marriage.
Extended family and obligationsthat come along with that
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there's healthcare needs andsummer.
Activities that we want to do.
There's a variety of things thatcome under that family category.
Of priorities and same withbusiness.
Right?
I put it as a work category.
But we would have my work.
We would have Ryan's work as anoccupational therapy assistant.
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I have my work as a occupationaltherapy assistant educator.
So the professor hat.
The clinician hat.
The online coach hat, the ahafaculty hat, Right?, and those
are all competing priorities.
Or those are all priorities thatneed to have a place.
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And they need to have a placethat is commeasured with where
I'm at right now.
So when you are thinking aboutcreating your own priority list,
it's important to, to categorizethings maybe into big categories
and then subcategories.
And write out all the thingsthat you have going on in those
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categories right now.
Then in that next stage isthinking about where your
strengths are.
And I did a podcast episoderecently on stress spaced
programming.
And I think this is a great wayto look at.
Setting up priorities.
And so looking at, where areyour strengths?
What are the things that reallybring a kind of spark to your
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day?
They bring you energy.
They helped to fill your cup.
Right.
Those are great burnout busters.
After I've made my prioritylist, Then I go to my strengths
list.
And I start to look at wherethere's matches and where
there's mismatches.
So some things that arepriorities for me that are also
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in my strengths, wheelhouse,right.
They get like a gold star.
And some things that are on mypriority list, but are on my
weakness list.
Things that really detract fromme.
Those are on my.
How can I manage these?
Can I stop doing them?
Can I partner with somebody whowould enjoy doing them more?
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Can I outsource them.
Can I find somebody else to dothem.
I do have a virtual assistantthat works with me and helps me.
There are some things that I canoutsource.
There are other things that Ican't Right?.
I'm the only one that can dothem- the teaching the coaching,
those types of things.
So those are things that I can'toutsource.
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And then finding out what isgoing to take the front burners.
And what's going to take theback burners and what's going to
come off the stove right now.
I heard an analogy once of,Basically we can manage about
four things.
So thinking about a stove top.
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We have our main bar burners,our front burners.
And then we have those backburners.
And so we can we can juggle thepots around, but we can't put
more than four pots on thestove.
And when you get to that pointthat you have more than four
pots on the stove, you need totake a little look at that and
decide, okay.
Where can I juggle some thingsaround?
Where can I work with thesepriorities after I've gone ahead
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and looked at my strengths?
The next thing I'm going to comein with my burnout busters.
These are things that I knowrefill me.
They give me relief.
They help to ignite that sparkagain.
So for me, some of the burnoutbusters are timeout in nature,
disconnecting from social mediaor my phone.
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Really going offline, camping,hiking, those things that really
immerse me in nature with myfamily.
Where there's no professionalexpectation.
As much as I love my naturebased practice, there's still a
professional expectation there,but when I go camping I can just
be right.
I can be in nature.
I can be around the smokycampfire.
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I can just be with my family andI know that really helps to fill
my cup back up.
So coming up in June, we have aweek that we're going and
camping and I know that that'ssomething that fills me up.
So as we get ready to wrap upthis episode, I will be taking a
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little break from the podcast.
As I focus on our new members ofbusiness barn, raising.
As I focus on my role as mom andhome educator.
And take a little break from thepodcast so I can disconnect and
I can have a little bit of abreak.
So, if you have been listeningalong, there will be a little
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break in our weekly episodes,but I do have a number of
interviews scheduled.
So when business barn raisingwraps up, the podcast will pop
right back on.
And we'll have some prettyawesome interviews coming up.
After business barn raisingwraps up.
So I hope today was helpful inlooking at priorities, both
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those within the work and careersetting, as well as the ones
that are part of your familysetting or your life setting
right now, as well as looking atways to combat burnout, even in
niche practice, where you reallydo love what you do so much.
But sometimes wearing all thehats can be a little bit much,
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and you can find those burnoutbusters for yourself.
Focus on your strengths basedprogramming.
Look at your priority list andreally focus on those things
that are going to bring you themost joy.
I hope this has been helpful andI'll be back soon.
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