August 19, 2025 • 14 mins
Are you feeling drained from endless hours in the studio? Wondering how music producers can avoid burnout or what strategies actually work to recover from creative exhaustion? You’re not alone; burnout is one of the biggest creativity killers for producers and indie artists today.
In this episode of Inside The Mix, Marc Matthews dives into proven techniques that helped him rebuild his workflow and rediscover his passion for making music. You’ll learn:
- How to avoid burnout in music production with the three-pillar framework.
- What the 80/20 rule means for producers and how focusing on the right 20% of tasks can deliver 80% of your results.
- How to eliminate, automate, delegate, and mitigate tasks that drain your energy and waste valuable studio time.
- How to recover from creative burnout with simple mindset shifts and practical habits.
- Why limiting yourself to three key goals per day can help you achieve more while working less.
If you’ve ever asked yourself, 'Should I take breaks when music feels draining?' Or 'how do I balance content creation and music production without burning out?' This episode gives you the answers.
Whether you’re catching the early warning signs of creative fatigue or already deep in burnout territory, these strategies will help you create more music, reduce stress, and find joy in the process again.
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Marc Matthews (00:00):
Ever feel like you're working harder than ever
on your music but yourcreativity is drying up?
You've probably hit thatdreaded wall burnout.
But here's the real question Isburnout inevitable for music
producers and indie artists, orcan we actually prevent it
before it hits?
And if you're already there, isthere a way back?
(00:20):
You're listening to the Insidethe Mix podcast with your host,
mark Matthews.
Welcome to Inside the Mix, yourgo-to podcast for music
creation and production.
Whether you're crafting yourfirst track or refining your
mixing skills, join me each weekfor expert interviews,
practical tutorials and insightsto help you level up your music
(00:43):
and smash it in the musicindustry.
Let's dive in.
Hey folks, welcome to Insidethe Mix, or welcome if you are a
new listener or viewer ifyou're watching this on YouTube.
In this episode I am answeringone of your questions, and this
question was submitted by OliverM, and this is the question.
I'm looking at my notes herehow do you avoid burnout or
(01:07):
recover from it?
If you've ever felt exhausted,unmotivated or even ready to
quit music altogether, thisepisode is for you.
So if you want to stayproductive, created and excited
about creating music, stickaround.
But before we dive into myresponse to Oliver's question.
If you have a question that youwould like featured on the
podcast, click the link in theepisode description and send me
(01:29):
a message and, who knows, yourquestion could feature on the
podcast and you'll get a shoutout as well.
So my first tip is to keep yourdaily goals simple, and the way
I do this is I write a to-dolist every day at the end of the
day.
Now you could do this in themorning and I've known people do
this in the morning, but thisparticular to-do list now I'll
hold it up to the camera here.
(01:49):
So if you're watching this onyoutube, I've got this nice rnli
to-do list that I purchasedfrom eczema, from the rnli, and
on there I'll put three,possibly four.
I try and aim for three keytasks that I want to complete
the next day.
Now you could do this in themorning, and the idea here is
(02:10):
these are the key tasks thatwill move things forward, and
we'll come back to that in a tipthat I'm going to share later
in this episode.
With regards to what is a keytask and here I'll share with
you what, for example, what I'vegot written on here today and
these are the things I want todo so I've got produce this
podcast episode.
I've got mix session prep soI'm prepping a mixing session
for a client and I've got podprod, which is podcast
production for the episodethat's going to drop on Tuesday.
(02:32):
And I've also got pod mid-rollvideo, so I'm creating a
mid-roll video for the podcastitself.
So technically I've got fourthings, and usually it'd be
three, but one of these is quiteshort, so I squeezed another
one in there, and the idea hereis I'm going to stick to these
tasks only.
These are the key tasks that aregoing to move things forward,
and I find that writing a listreally does help.
(02:53):
I can get it out of my head, Ican stop thinking about what it
is I'm going to do the next dayor that given day, and it's
there, it's on my list of thingsto do, things to do, and I
don't know about you, but I loveticking things off.
I don't know what it is, justlove doing it and it just makes
me feel ultra productive andpositive about the tasks I'm
doing for that day.
(03:13):
To summarize if it's not on thelist, it's not urgent, and this
will stop you.
It stops me from suffering fromshiny object syndrome, which is
where you see something onsocial media, for example, and
you end up going down a rabbithole.
I do this go down a rabbit holeof a music production technique
, a mix technique or just aconcept of audio, and then I end
up wasting time and don'tcomplete the tasks on my list
(03:35):
and then it has a knock-oneffect to the next day.
So it really does help solidifywhat it is I need to do in that
particular day and setboundaries.
So it can often be said thatburnout is a result of doing
things that don't matter, doinglots of things that don't really
matter.
And what I do to identify thethings that don't matter is I
(03:56):
track what it is I do in a givenweek and at the end of that
week and also the end of themonth, I do a weekly review,
which is short.
Okay, what have I done thisweek, what went well, what
didn't go well, what could Iimprove and that comes from the
teacher in me.
And then I plan for the nextweek and I use google calendar
to map out I know exactly whattime I have, and then I move
(04:16):
pieces or tasks around like ajigsaw and put them into
relevant slots so I can dedicatetime to a particular task and I
like to dedicate time.
We're going off on a bit of atangent here.
I like to dedicate time orallocate time, because I find
that if I just have open-endedtime, whatever task it is I'm
doing, I would just fill thattime with that task.
So I like to set timeboundaries.
(04:37):
Obviously, there's a time and aplace whereby you don't want
that, but for the most part,particularly particularly with
admin tasks like if I am doingsome podcast, research or
something like that I will set atime for which I want to do
that.
I won't have an open-ended timefor that.
So that's just a slight tangentthere.
But basically, yeah, I reviewat the end of each week, at the
end of each month and quarter aswell, and it's always what went
(05:00):
well, what didn't go well, andthen I take that forward and
basically I'm trying to identifytasks that don't really have
any impact.
So I've got a great frameworkfor categorizing the tasks that
I've identified and there arefour buckets.
We've got eliminate, automate,delegate and mitigate.
(05:21):
And I got this from the homestudio profitable home studio
podcast, I think it's called.
I could be corrected on that.
I think it's called somethingdifferent now, but at the time
that's what it was called.
So we'll start with eliminate.
So here, what adds no value,and I quickly identified that
being on all social mediaplatforms really didn't add any
(05:42):
value.
So I was on X, tiktok, facebook, instagram, youtube, and I got
rid of X, tiktok and Facebook.
Well, technically I'm still onFacebook, or active, let's say
but it's just automaticallysharing from Instagram because I
was getting nothing from those.
You get shares, you get a bitof engagement, but was it really
doing anything?
No, and was it taking up a lotof time?
Yes, doing all this crossposting and whatnot.
(06:04):
So now I focus on two platformsInstagram and YouTube.
So eliminate those did not addany value.
The next is automate.
So repetitive tasks.
Is there anything I canautomate, and you can leverage
AI for this?
But in this instance, it's mymailing list.
So if you're on my mailing list, great.
If you're not, click the linkin the episode description, jump
(06:25):
on, get weekly tips, no spam,no fluff, and basically, with
the mailing list, I automated itso it cleans my mailing list
every six months.
So if someone on my mailinglist, a subscriber, doesn't open
an email in the last six months, they are scrubbed from my
(06:46):
mailing list and I've justautomated that, so I don't have
to go in and do that.
And I also do that with, everytwo months, a re-engagement
email as well, which sent out ifsomebody hasn't engaged in two
months, just saying would youlike to change your subscription
settings?
Basically, alternatively,you've got the option to
unsubscribe as well, so I'veautomated that saves me having
(07:08):
to do it.
So that's automation.
The next is delegate.
So this is where possible, canyou delegate any tasks?
And I do this.
I did it in a couple of ways.
So with podcast editing, Idelegated that, which I recouped
a significant amount of time.
And when I did have theFacebook group active, I
delegated the administration ofthe Facebook group, because that
(07:30):
took a bit of time as well,with posting, responding to
posts and just cross posting newepisodes each week.
Now, admittedly, the Facebookgroup is no longer active, but
that is an example of how Idelegate your tasks.
So is there anything that youcan get friends or family to
help you with, whether that'spromotion or if you're a
producer and mix engineer, mixprep or something along those
(07:52):
lines, if you've got the abilityto do it, maybe you can get an
intern in to help you withregards to mix prep.
Maybe somebody wants to learnmore about mixing and editing
and you can offer them someguidance just some ideas off the
top of my head, and in return,they will help you with that.
But that's delegate, delegate.
So so far we've got eliminate,get rid of social media automate
(08:14):
, automate the cleaning of mymailing list, delegate the admin
of a group and also podcastediting and then mitigate.
So mitigate is where, here I'vegot my notes.
High stress, activity stressmight be the wrong word take a
lot of time with better systems.
So this is all aboutsystematizing.
So, in particular, with apodcast, going back to what I
(08:35):
said earlier about using ai, Inow use ai.
I leverage ai to help me withresearching podcasts, podcast
guests and podcast episodedescription, seo and scripts as
well.
So I use ai.
I don't I don't rely on AI tocreate it, but I use AI to
refine it.
(08:56):
So I will draft the script, thedescription, and then I'll
chuck it into ChatGPT, forexample, and just say can you
refine this, proofread it andoffer any advice on how I could
improve it.
And obviously you don't have toaccept what AI puts in there,
but generally it's quite good.
So that's how I use AI and Ialso use it, and this folks
(09:21):
helped me significantly.
With regards to content, I use aplatform called Riverside I'll
put a link to it in theaffiliate link in the episode
description and I use Riversideto create micro content.
So it will take the podcastepisode and it will create reels
for me of the best parts usingAI and it has saved me so much
(09:44):
time.
I used to have to do itmanually.
I use ScreenFlow to recordepisodes when I'm doing
tutorials, for example.
Previously I used Zoom torecord interviews and I used to
have to do it manually and justto create four pieces.
It takes so long, but now I useRiverside and it automatically
does it for me.
It's called magic content.
(10:04):
I'm not selling Riverside at anypoint here.
This episode isn't sponsored byRiverside.
I'm just telling you what I useand just an example of how I
use AI to recoup so much time byusing Riverside to create the
short form content for me.
And I know that I used to useanother platform called Opus
Clip I think it's called, butever since Riverside started
(10:26):
doing it, I don't use it anymorebecause I don't need Opus Clip.
But Opus Clip will do the sameChuck in a video and it'll pick
out the best parts for you andthen you can use that and it
just saves loads of time.
So I'm waffling a bit now, butthat's mitigate.
So I'm leveraging AI just torecoup some time for tasks that
I know I need to do and I needto do them, but I want them to
be done quicker and moreefficiently.
(10:47):
So there we go You've goteliminate, automate, delegate
and mitigate.
Third and final tip is to applythe Pareto principle, which is
the 80-20 rule.
So this principle in effectstates that 80% of your results
come from 20% of your efforts.
For example, using theeliminate bucket from the
previous tip, I identified thatI was spending probably 50% of
(11:11):
my time posting on varioussocial media platforms and it
was only generating a smallpercentage of growth in podcast
downloads and subscribers andalso Spotify monthly listeners.
So I was spending half of mytime on social media, but it was
a tiny amount of growthhappening as a result.
(11:31):
So I identified that and then Ieliminated all those platforms.
So it was TikTok Facebook, andwhat was the other one?
X?
That was it.
So I identified that and then Ieliminated all those platforms.
So it was TikTok Facebook andwhat was the other one?
X, that was it.
So I eliminated those andrecouped time.
And also, going back to themitigate as well, I now use
automation to create the microcontent, which again has saved
(11:51):
me significant time.
So I've now gone from sort of50% of my time dedicated to
social media to, probably in aday, I would say maybe 5%.
It's very small, and I've evenset a limit of 40 minutes per
day, and then all my apps justblock me out from going on
social media.
So I really have zeroed in onthat percentage of time that I
(12:15):
was dedicating to social media,which really wasn't moving the
needle.
I'm still active, don't get mewrong still active, still enjoy
it, but a significantly lessamount of time.
So what I'm doing here isinstead, I'm double downing, I'm
doubling down.
Doubling down on the activitiesthat actually move the needle.
So, for example, with thepodcast that is reaching out to
(12:35):
other podcasters and building anetwork and cross promotion on
other podcasts, that's featuringon other podcasts and having
other podcasters on inside themix.
And with regards to my music, Ihave spent time honing and
refining my meta ad strategy anddoing research into that, which
has helped significantly.
And also now I am reaching outto radio stations, blogs and
(12:59):
getting features as well.
So, in essence, I'm actuallydoing less but seeing more
results.
Basically, that 80 20 principle80 of the results come from 20
of our our efforts.
So I'm doing less but achievingmore.
And those are my three top tipsto avoid burnout and also
recover from it as well, as aproducer or indie artist, and to
(13:22):
be fair.
To be fair, you can do it anywalk of life, really.
So let's do a quick recap.
I'm looking at my notes here.
We got number one limit yourdaily to-do list to three
essential tasks.
Tip two, track your work andapply the eliminate, automate,
delegate, mitigate framework.
And tip three, use the Pareto80-20 principle to focus on what
(13:44):
truly matters.
So these three strategies canhelp you create more music and
avoid burnout.
So, circling back to thebeginning of this episode, folks
, if you have a question likeOliver M that you would like
answered on the podcast, clickthe link in the episode
description, send me a messageand get featured on the podcast.
(14:06):
Until next time, stay inspired,keep creating and don't be
afraid to experiment inside themix.
Ever feel like you're working harder than ever
on your music but yourcreativity is drying up?
You've probably hit thatdreaded wall burnout.
But here's the real question Isburnout inevitable for music
producers and indie artists, orcan we actually prevent it
before it hits?
And if you're already there, isthere a way back?
(00:20):
You're listening to the Insidethe Mix podcast with your host,
mark Matthews.
Welcome to Inside the Mix, yourgo-to podcast for music
creation and production.
Whether you're crafting yourfirst track or refining your
mixing skills, join me each weekfor expert interviews,
practical tutorials and insightsto help you level up your music
(00:43):
and smash it in the musicindustry.
Let's dive in.
Hey folks, welcome to Insidethe Mix, or welcome if you are a
new listener or viewer ifyou're watching this on YouTube.
In this episode I am answeringone of your questions, and this
question was submitted by OliverM, and this is the question.
I'm looking at my notes herehow do you avoid burnout or
(01:07):
recover from it?
If you've ever felt exhausted,unmotivated or even ready to
quit music altogether, thisepisode is for you.
So if you want to stayproductive, created and excited
about creating music, stickaround.
But before we dive into myresponse to Oliver's question.
If you have a question that youwould like featured on the
podcast, click the link in theepisode description and send me
(01:29):
a message and, who knows, yourquestion could feature on the
podcast and you'll get a shoutout as well.
So my first tip is to keep yourdaily goals simple, and the way
I do this is I write a to-dolist every day at the end of the
day.
Now you could do this in themorning and I've known people do
this in the morning, but thisparticular to-do list now I'll
hold it up to the camera here.
(01:49):
So if you're watching this onyoutube, I've got this nice rnli
to-do list that I purchasedfrom eczema, from the rnli, and
on there I'll put three,possibly four.
I try and aim for three keytasks that I want to complete
the next day.
Now you could do this in themorning, and the idea here is
(02:10):
these are the key tasks thatwill move things forward, and
we'll come back to that in a tipthat I'm going to share later
in this episode.
With regards to what is a keytask and here I'll share with
you what, for example, what I'vegot written on here today and
these are the things I want todo so I've got produce this
podcast episode.
I've got mix session prep soI'm prepping a mixing session
for a client and I've got podprod, which is podcast
production for the episodethat's going to drop on Tuesday.
(02:32):
And I've also got pod mid-rollvideo, so I'm creating a
mid-roll video for the podcastitself.
So technically I've got fourthings, and usually it'd be
three, but one of these is quiteshort, so I squeezed another
one in there, and the idea hereis I'm going to stick to these
tasks only.
These are the key tasks that aregoing to move things forward,
and I find that writing a listreally does help.
(02:53):
I can get it out of my head, Ican stop thinking about what it
is I'm going to do the next dayor that given day, and it's
there, it's on my list of thingsto do, things to do, and I
don't know about you, but I loveticking things off.
I don't know what it is, justlove doing it and it just makes
me feel ultra productive andpositive about the tasks I'm
doing for that day.
(03:13):
To summarize if it's not on thelist, it's not urgent, and this
will stop you.
It stops me from suffering fromshiny object syndrome, which is
where you see something onsocial media, for example, and
you end up going down a rabbithole.
I do this go down a rabbit holeof a music production technique
, a mix technique or just aconcept of audio, and then I end
up wasting time and don'tcomplete the tasks on my list
(03:35):
and then it has a knock-oneffect to the next day.
So it really does help solidifywhat it is I need to do in that
particular day and setboundaries.
So it can often be said thatburnout is a result of doing
things that don't matter, doinglots of things that don't really
matter.
And what I do to identify thethings that don't matter is I
(03:56):
track what it is I do in a givenweek and at the end of that
week and also the end of themonth, I do a weekly review,
which is short.
Okay, what have I done thisweek, what went well, what
didn't go well, what could Iimprove and that comes from the
teacher in me.
And then I plan for the nextweek and I use google calendar
to map out I know exactly whattime I have, and then I move
(04:16):
pieces or tasks around like ajigsaw and put them into
relevant slots so I can dedicatetime to a particular task and I
like to dedicate time.
We're going off on a bit of atangent here.
I like to dedicate time orallocate time, because I find
that if I just have open-endedtime, whatever task it is I'm
doing, I would just fill thattime with that task.
So I like to set timeboundaries.
(04:37):
Obviously, there's a time and aplace whereby you don't want
that, but for the most part,particularly particularly with
admin tasks like if I am doingsome podcast, research or
something like that I will set atime for which I want to do
that.
I won't have an open-ended timefor that.
So that's just a slight tangentthere.
But basically, yeah, I reviewat the end of each week, at the
end of each month and quarter aswell, and it's always what went
(05:00):
well, what didn't go well, andthen I take that forward and
basically I'm trying to identifytasks that don't really have
any impact.
So I've got a great frameworkfor categorizing the tasks that
I've identified and there arefour buckets.
We've got eliminate, automate,delegate and mitigate.
(05:21):
And I got this from the homestudio profitable home studio
podcast, I think it's called.
I could be corrected on that.
I think it's called somethingdifferent now, but at the time
that's what it was called.
So we'll start with eliminate.
So here, what adds no value,and I quickly identified that
being on all social mediaplatforms really didn't add any
(05:42):
value.
So I was on X, tiktok, facebook, instagram, youtube, and I got
rid of X, tiktok and Facebook.
Well, technically I'm still onFacebook, or active, let's say
but it's just automaticallysharing from Instagram because I
was getting nothing from those.
You get shares, you get a bitof engagement, but was it really
doing anything?
No, and was it taking up a lotof time?
Yes, doing all this crossposting and whatnot.
(06:04):
So now I focus on two platformsInstagram and YouTube.
So eliminate those did not addany value.
The next is automate.
So repetitive tasks.
Is there anything I canautomate, and you can leverage
AI for this?
But in this instance, it's mymailing list.
So if you're on my mailing list, great.
If you're not, click the linkin the episode description, jump
(06:25):
on, get weekly tips, no spam,no fluff, and basically, with
the mailing list, I automated itso it cleans my mailing list
every six months.
So if someone on my mailinglist, a subscriber, doesn't open
an email in the last six months, they are scrubbed from my
(06:46):
mailing list and I've justautomated that, so I don't have
to go in and do that.
And I also do that with, everytwo months, a re-engagement
email as well, which sent out ifsomebody hasn't engaged in two
months, just saying would youlike to change your subscription
settings?
Basically, alternatively,you've got the option to
unsubscribe as well, so I'veautomated that saves me having
(07:08):
to do it.
So that's automation.
The next is delegate.
So this is where possible, canyou delegate any tasks?
And I do this.
I did it in a couple of ways.
So with podcast editing, Idelegated that, which I recouped
a significant amount of time.
And when I did have theFacebook group active, I
delegated the administration ofthe Facebook group, because that
(07:30):
took a bit of time as well,with posting, responding to
posts and just cross posting newepisodes each week.
Now, admittedly, the Facebookgroup is no longer active, but
that is an example of how Idelegate your tasks.
So is there anything that youcan get friends or family to
help you with, whether that'spromotion or if you're a
producer and mix engineer, mixprep or something along those
(07:52):
lines, if you've got the abilityto do it, maybe you can get an
intern in to help you withregards to mix prep.
Maybe somebody wants to learnmore about mixing and editing
and you can offer them someguidance just some ideas off the
top of my head, and in return,they will help you with that.
But that's delegate, delegate.
So so far we've got eliminate,get rid of social media automate
(08:14):
, automate the cleaning of mymailing list, delegate the admin
of a group and also podcastediting and then mitigate.
So mitigate is where, here I'vegot my notes.
High stress, activity stressmight be the wrong word take a
lot of time with better systems.
So this is all aboutsystematizing.
So, in particular, with apodcast, going back to what I
(08:35):
said earlier about using ai, Inow use ai.
I leverage ai to help me withresearching podcasts, podcast
guests and podcast episodedescription, seo and scripts as
well.
So I use ai.
I don't I don't rely on AI tocreate it, but I use AI to
refine it.
(08:56):
So I will draft the script, thedescription, and then I'll
chuck it into ChatGPT, forexample, and just say can you
refine this, proofread it andoffer any advice on how I could
improve it.
And obviously you don't have toaccept what AI puts in there,
but generally it's quite good.
So that's how I use AI and Ialso use it, and this folks
(09:21):
helped me significantly.
With regards to content, I use aplatform called Riverside I'll
put a link to it in theaffiliate link in the episode
description and I use Riversideto create micro content.
So it will take the podcastepisode and it will create reels
for me of the best parts usingAI and it has saved me so much
(09:44):
time.
I used to have to do itmanually.
I use ScreenFlow to recordepisodes when I'm doing
tutorials, for example.
Previously I used Zoom torecord interviews and I used to
have to do it manually and justto create four pieces.
It takes so long, but now I useRiverside and it automatically
does it for me.
It's called magic content.
(10:04):
I'm not selling Riverside at anypoint here.
This episode isn't sponsored byRiverside.
I'm just telling you what I useand just an example of how I
use AI to recoup so much time byusing Riverside to create the
short form content for me.
And I know that I used to useanother platform called Opus
Clip I think it's called, butever since Riverside started
(10:26):
doing it, I don't use it anymorebecause I don't need Opus Clip.
But Opus Clip will do the sameChuck in a video and it'll pick
out the best parts for you andthen you can use that and it
just saves loads of time.
So I'm waffling a bit now, butthat's mitigate.
So I'm leveraging AI just torecoup some time for tasks that
I know I need to do and I needto do them, but I want them to
be done quicker and moreefficiently.
(10:47):
So there we go You've goteliminate, automate, delegate
and mitigate.
Third and final tip is to applythe Pareto principle, which is
the 80-20 rule.
So this principle in effectstates that 80% of your results
come from 20% of your efforts.
For example, using theeliminate bucket from the
previous tip, I identified thatI was spending probably 50% of
(11:11):
my time posting on varioussocial media platforms and it
was only generating a smallpercentage of growth in podcast
downloads and subscribers andalso Spotify monthly listeners.
So I was spending half of mytime on social media, but it was
a tiny amount of growthhappening as a result.
(11:31):
So I identified that and then Ieliminated all those platforms.
So it was TikTok Facebook, andwhat was the other one?
X?
That was it.
So I identified that and then Ieliminated all those platforms.
So it was TikTok Facebook andwhat was the other one?
X, that was it.
So I eliminated those andrecouped time.
And also, going back to themitigate as well, I now use
automation to create the microcontent, which again has saved
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me significant time.
So I've now gone from sort of50% of my time dedicated to
social media to, probably in aday, I would say maybe 5%.
It's very small, and I've evenset a limit of 40 minutes per
day, and then all my apps justblock me out from going on
social media.
So I really have zeroed in onthat percentage of time that I
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was dedicating to social media,which really wasn't moving the
needle.
I'm still active, don't get mewrong still active, still enjoy
it, but a significantly lessamount of time.
So what I'm doing here isinstead, I'm double downing, I'm
doubling down.
Doubling down on the activitiesthat actually move the needle.
So, for example, with thepodcast that is reaching out to
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other podcasters and building anetwork and cross promotion on
other podcasts, that's featuringon other podcasts and having
other podcasters on inside themix.
And with regards to my music, Ihave spent time honing and
refining my meta ad strategy anddoing research into that, which
has helped significantly.
And also now I am reaching outto radio stations, blogs and
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getting features as well.
So, in essence, I'm actuallydoing less but seeing more
results.
Basically, that 80 20 principle80 of the results come from 20
of our our efforts.
So I'm doing less but achievingmore.
And those are my three top tipsto avoid burnout and also
recover from it as well, as aproducer or indie artist, and to
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be fair.
To be fair, you can do it anywalk of life, really.
So let's do a quick recap.
I'm looking at my notes here.
We got number one limit yourdaily to-do list to three
essential tasks.
Tip two, track your work andapply the eliminate, automate,
delegate, mitigate framework.
And tip three, use the Pareto80-20 principle to focus on what
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truly matters.
So these three strategies canhelp you create more music and
avoid burnout.
So, circling back to thebeginning of this episode, folks
, if you have a question likeOliver M that you would like
answered on the podcast, clickthe link in the episode
description, send me a messageand get featured on the podcast.
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Until next time, stay inspired,keep creating and don't be
afraid to experiment inside themix.
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