IF YOU’RE an employee or entrepreneur who’s burned out, it may be time for a fresh start. How do you do that when you still have bills to pay, though? We’ll explain why we sometimes need a fresh start, how daily action takes you in the right direction, how to develop a beginner’s mind, small life changes you can make, and how change brings out your full potential.
Key Takeaways
- Whether working 9-5 for a boss or working for yourself, sometimes you feel like you can’t get ahead in life. That’s where goal setting and making action plans can help.
- If you want to start a business, that could include figuring out how much you need to make per month to replace your current income.
- If you find it hard to keep track of your performance, ask a friend to help you. This not only helps track progress but also improves the likelihood that you perform well.
Why We Need a Fresh Start Sometimes
Being an entrepreneur is hard, but so is being an employee. Whether working 9-5 for a boss or working for yourself, sometimes you feel like you can’t get ahead in life. That’s where goal setting and making action plans can help.
You may wonder what’s the best way to start with setting business goals. If you’re an employee, keep working at your job, but start looking at what you need to do to save enough money to leave your job and eventually start your own business. If you’ve already started your own business and feel like you’re not making enough money, look at places you can cut your expenses, consider raising your prices, or hire an entrepreneurship coach to help you.
Daily Action Takes You In the Right Direction
When you’re making a fresh start, the first step is to muster up courage to take the steps to make the necessary changes. Start by setting goals and making action plans for the things you want to do. If you want to start a business, that could include figuring out how much you need to make per month to replace your current income.
You’ll also have to figure out how to sell your prospective customers on your product, whether it’s through website or social media content, email campaigns, or other types of advertising. Once you have an idea how much it will cost you, act every day to find ways to reduce your expenses or make extra money, so you have some money to start with when you start your business.
Track Your Progress
When making a fresh start during difficult times, it’s important to track your progress. Tracking short-term and long-term goals using the fresh start effect lets you know where you stand. If you don’t do that, you won’t understand where you sit currently and won’t be able to plan how to quit your 9-5 and make money.
During this time, don’t be too obsessive about tracking your progress – track it daily or weekly, and give yourself a time slot to check your performance reports. Also, keep your tracking system simple – use yes or no questions rather than putting in several variables. You could write down a question for a single goal on a piece of paper, create “yes” and “no” columns, and check off the correct one.
If you find it hard to keep track of your performance, ask a friend to help you. This not only helps track progress but also improves the likelihood that you perform well. You can achieve great things this way.
Life Changes Don’t Always Have to Be Drastic
If you feel like you’re working your life away, you don’t have to make drastic life changes when creating a 9-5 exit strategy. Some small changes you can make include:
- Setting realistic goals – Setting realistic goals that are still challenging is important. The goal should relate to something you want to achieve and be slightly more challenging than you think you can handle.
- Not comparing yourself to others – Comparing yourself to others is useless because everyone is unique.
- Planning and prioritizing with a to-do list – Break the steps in each of your goals down into actions you repeat regularly, whether daily, weekly, or monthly.
- Thinking of rejections as stepping stones – When you’re rejected, instead of feeling discouraged, think of them as stepping stones to the eventual “yes.”
- Thinking of setbacks as success signals – Most people consider setbacks as mini-failures. Think of them as success signals; it’s an opportunity to learn what doesn’t work.
Learning a new skill can be hard work; it’s best to focus on it for a short period every day. Once you’ve mastered a valuable skill, you’ll be able to mark it as complete on your list of goals.
Change Brings Out Your Full Potential
When you’re making changes, what feels like the end is often the beginning of a new adventure. If you have questions after reading this article, working with a coach can help you. Life coaches can help you stay on top of your game, improve your life skills and behaviors, balance work and life, make better decisions, become more confident, promote self-awareness, motivate, educate you, and make achieving your personal goals more enjoyable.
I hope this article has provided some ideas for how to get a fresh start when you’re burned out. If you’re burned out, it’s time to reassess your life and decide what changes you need to make. As we get towards the end of the year, follow these steps to figure out what steps to take, what goals to make, and what small changes you can take in a reasonable time frame to start making those goals a reality. Once you’ve made a fresh start, you’ll have better focus, and your sense of purpose will return.