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Tag: Burnout

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Mind

Decision Fatigue Is Why Your Afternoons Go Wrong

By four in the afternoon most business owners are not tired in the way that sleep fixes. They are decision-tired, […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
How decision fatigue derails your afternoons, by Ayse Durmush
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Body

The Energy Audit: Where Your Week Actually Goes

Time audits are common and mostly useless. They tell you where the hours went, which you could have guessed, and […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
Auditing where your working week actually goes, by Ayse Durmush
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Mind

Why Motivation Is the Wrong Thing to Wait For

Motivation is the most unreliable business input there is. It arrives when the work is already going well and disappears […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
Why waiting for motivation stalls progress, by Ayse Durmush
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Body

The Founder’s Sleep Protocol: Why Six Hours Costs More Than It Saves

There is a particular kind of pride in running on very little sleep. It sounds like commitment. It photographs well […]

Ayse Durmush · 9 min read
Sleep deprivation and founder decision quality, by Ayse Durmush
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Body

The Energy Audit: Managing Your Body Like Your Business Depends on It

You are the most heavily-used asset your business owns. Run a two-week energy audit, find your three most expensive leaks, and fix them with the same seriousness as…

Ayse Durmush · 9 min read
The energy audit for business owners, a part-charged battery, by Ayse Durmush
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Mind

How to Quiet a Busy Mind When Your Business Depends on You

Mental noise is the predictable result of carrying a business’s worth of open loops without a system underneath them. Here is how to build quiet: trusted capture, scheduled…

Ayse Durmush · 9 min read
How to quiet a busy mind, a tangled line resolving into calm, by Ayse Durmush
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Business

How to Recover from Founder Burnout: Why Your Self-Care Routine is a Business Asset

In 2015, I woke up paralyzed from the neck down. Doctors said there was no cure. I’d built a 30-year […]

Ayse Durmush · 15 min read
Founder burnout recovery and self-care, a brain outline, by Ayse Durmush
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Body

Why scheduling self-care is important

Why scheduling self-care is important In this post: Why scheduling in self-care is important Ways to include self-care into your […]

Ayse Durmush · 7 min read
Why scheduling in self-care is important
09
Body

5 tips to prevent burnout for entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are more likely to be affected by burnout than any other type of business owner. These 5 tips will help you to prevent burnout and save your…

Ayse Durmush · 8 min read
5 tips to prevent burnout for entrepreneurs
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Mind

How to Meditate

When I started to meditate it took me a while to figure out which form of meditation works best for me. […]

Ayse Durmush · 4 min read
How to Meditate Blog by Ayse Durmush
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Body

Are Burnout and Depression the same thing?

This post will help you understand the difference between burnout and depression. And what action to take to address them.

Ayse Durmush · 4 min read
Are burnout and depression the same thing
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