Based on your answers, it looks like you are dealing with burnout!
Startup Burnout Stage 4
Startup Burnout comes in different stages. It seems that you have developed into the fourth stage of burnout.
You are experiencing mental and physical exhaustion and possibly even illness, like headaches and stomach problems.
How to recover from stage 4 burnout?
In this stage there is no denying you need professional help. Talk to your doctor or see a therapist. According to research, Cognitive Based Therapy helps to recover from burnout.
The first step in the right direction is listening to your body and acknowledging your own needs.
Feeling so low, looking after yourself might be one of the most difficult things to do. Even though you are burned out, you still want to work and keep the business going. But in order to save your business, you first need to save yourself.
For some, it means taking a full break from work for some time. But most startup founders and entrepreneurs are not in a position to do that. You probably will need to work and look after yourself at the same time. It’s tough, but there is an advantage: you can learn the right coping strategies right here, right now.
Get back on track with Curbn
In the following months, I will be developing a new product ’50 x Smarter’, that will teach startup founders and entrepreneurs how to work smarter instead of harder using their own tools.
The key objectives of ’50 x Smarter’ is to reduce the stress your heavy workload is causing you. It would not be realistic to say ‘reduce the workload’, but learning a smarter way to prioritize and deal with the endless e-mails and tasks on your to-do list will help you to get back on top.
I hope to publish the first of these online courses in January 25, so bear with me. In the meantime, here’s already some good advice:
Clear up the loose ends in your head.
Write them down and free up space in your mind.
With ’50 x Smarter’, I hope to teach you exactly how to do that. With simple hacks in the tools you already use. Sometimes it’s about a feature you didn’t know yet, other times it’s about using something in a different way or picking up on a new habit.
But we’re not there yet. So, for the time being, I’ll just share some of that knowledge in my newsletter.