 Welcome back it is Friday that means Ebony Friday and today I want to talk about how I avoid burnout If you're wondering where I am, I'm actually at my parents house in Switzerland. That's right This is my old room. We moved around a couple times But this was the last house before I moved to San Francisco Actually my parents moved to this house when I moved to San Francisco, but yeah, this is my old room But it's summer here and it's so hot. I can't stay inside. I have to come outside Oh Much better. So why am I recording this here? The title of this is actually how I avoid burnout I can't tell you how you will avoid burnout because it all depends on your situation Your type of life and all the things are making up your life in your situation So I can't speak for you. All I can do is list the things that I do so that I avoid burnout It's actually starting to rain here. I look for boundaries and checkpoints So basically as I go through work in this coupi working teaching or long stretch of overtime or just a lot of classes I always kind of look at where I'm at mentally and physically in terms of the workloads How much I sleep and how much I spend time at work I have to kind of look at is this becoming too much? Do I have to stop and do I have to reset myself? I mean, you will have periods where you work too much I certainly have periods where I know this is going to be a lot of work But I try to anticipate that and I try to choose that okay for this period of time I'm going to work a lot but then after that I'm going to take a break and find a way to recharge So you have to find a way to balance it and kind of prepare yourself mentally and I say you but again I speak for myself I try to find ways to talk to my family and say this is a period of a lot of work But then after that we might go on vacation or go do something on the weekends So I try to at least kind of have a roadmap of things that are coming towards me in terms of work and the workload And then try to kind of balance those things with other things that are not work related And for that I have very clear boundaries where I don't work on the weekends And I try to not work in the evening as well. I'm not talking about work at ilm But it's when I come home from work I want to reset and stop and spend time with the family and do things where I can read or watch a movie Or exercise or play or whatever it is that is not work related So there's some sort of work-life balance and I've talked about that before in the q&a's And weekends especially are super important for me to just turn things off So I try to get up early in the morning and get all my work done then So that my teachings the critiques and everything that I need to do kind outside of work is done in the morning So then I have kind of like the evenings where I can say this is it. I don't have to work anymore. I can relax This is really starting to rain now Your burnout might also come from your own personal goals And maybe you just haven't achieved them But you can't go into that spiral of oh man, I failed and then you start overworking you work more But you still don't get it and that's for sure the beginning of a burnout where you just work yourself So deep into a hole that you won't be able to get out of because as you work and as you try new things as you switch jobs You're always going to try to figure things out Not gonna have the master plan for everything some things work out Some things don't even for me as I'm doing this channel. I mean, I'm figuring things out I'm trying things and if there's at any point something where this becomes too much and I can't do it anymore I'll quit. I'll just stop or I'll take a longer break. But for now it's working. It's actually helping me It's a good separate thing where it forces me to relearn things to prepare lectures It actually helps me with some sort of balance and it's something else then what I do at work all day But you really have to look at what works for me and if you have a family what works for you and your family And as I'm saying this this is raining even more in the house rain on the lens here You actually you might be wondering why am I outside and it's actually starting to rain Why am I doing this? Well, I've been on vacation for three weeks now So the last couple uploads of stranger things actually yesterday's acting houses for the movie us And all the other things that I post on Friday and the critiques all of that I have done before This was all pre uploaded all I had to do is hit publish. So for the last three weeks I've done I wouldn't say nothing. I mean, I still had some newer critiques coming into it's not a hundred percent I'm turning things off and I'm just relaxing and having a vacation So there's still a bit of work But still overall this has been a reset for me and this is how I kind of look at things where I work work work But now it's not I got a full on vacation. I took the whole family We're here in Switzerland visiting my parents visiting my brother But it's certainly not something that I can do all the time. There are a lot of expenses that come with this So this is something I can do maybe every two Three years and sometimes with help of family members or paying for all the tickets and everything So it's not something I can say. Hey, if you need a break, just fly to a different country Even I can do that. I mean, but I tried to look at things during the week weekends Bigger breaks bigger resets and then every couple years a bigger longer vacation So going back I didn't want to record this during the first three weeks because the weather was nice So I don't want to go out and you know record and edit do all that stuff I wanted to save this until that last Friday, which is today Actually, we're flying back this sunday back to the states and I started this whole thing and it wasn't raining And now it's getting even worse. I don't even know how I'm going to get from this little outside Shit, I'm outside here. My parents houses back there You have to run through and protect my camera and I don't always recognize if I am completely relaxed or stressed out I always feel like I'm probably okay But then also helps that my wife is there and helps me and tells me hey Maybe should take a little break there. So I have a big support system around me that helps me recognizing that Maybe you're slightly overworked. It's not a burnout yet, but you got to be careful. Let's do something So I use you know external checkmarks I use external help so the rain has stopped a little bit. I'm almost on the floor here my steps looking out lake lucerne It's fantastic. All of that for me is a massive reset. So this is all very personal This is all very dependent on your situation and again I can't just fly to switzerland take my whole family there But that for me is a big reset. So if I can do this I will I will take advantage of that time the vacation that we have at work But if I don't have this and it's during work time I do have to have boundaries and checkpoints where I say this has to end and sometimes it's I'm in a I'm in a flow and I want to do something and I have just a lot of good ideas I want to get there but recognize if I do this and I continue with this work Then I will for sure start to burn out and I will work too much and I will overwork myself So even if I'm in a good state in a good flow, I have to recognize that maybe even though it's okay now I still have to stop. Let's reset. Let's do something to find balance. Let's not just work work work And again, these could be small things at home These could be small things even at work This could be when I commute home and listen to a podcast So there's just there are always little things that I can use at least again It's very subjective for myself to kind of balance things and stop and reset and the big work for me is reset It's just I know I'm going to go back to a certain state It's going to be okay And let's get back into this and this being you know work at lm This could be multiple classes the fall semester is about to start probably in a month or so I know there's a lot of work coming ahead It kind of coincides with work and potentially crunch or the end of a show So I know this is coming and I got to prepare and potentials for that youtube channel record things way ahead So I don't have to do everything in the same week I can just hit publish and somehow I got to find a way to balance this whole thing out Usually the end of the year is a bit more work involved But then you know, there's also Christmas and there's a Christmas break We might have family that come from Switzerland to America So they're always so far that have been ways for me to Rebalance things and reset things and it's not just me. I mean I depend massively on my wife She knows me very well. She can tell me when things are going a bit too far So there's a there's a big support system that I have with my direct family in Switzerland with my family With my wife and my kids So if you have access to that obviously try to take advantage of that But again, you might not have any of this. So again, I can't speak for you I don't know what the road map is for you, but at least I want to give you kind of an insight of what I do And again, this is a massive exception. I can't always just come here speaking of here. It's not rainy anymore Oh, let me get up here. All right This almost turns into a vlog vlog style This is my parents chalet See in the back And then as I turn You have this fantastic view. Well, I'm not sure how much you can see there is Mountain back there. There's technically a mountain behind me, but it's very Very cloudy and foggy right now a bit of a bummer, but you got you got the lake down here It's all so fantastic and clean water I can just jump in there technically I could jump right now, but I'm not going to but I could step down here There's a way to end this as I fall into the water But come on Come on. I love this. I love water. It's fantastic I think I'm gonna end it like this. There's not much more. I can say again. This is a massive reset for me I'm finding my friends from childhood. I'm here with my parents. I'm here with my brother immediate family It's just a fantastic massive reset for me. So yeah, I've been spending the last three weeks here It's been absolutely awesome. I'm going to leave Sunday today's Friday. So Sunday back home San Francisco, Peraluma and then Monday back to work So I'm going to sign off and hopefully you find ways and hopefully you are not in a current state of burnout And if you are also just reach out ask people for help You can reach out online whatever you have whatever means you have at your disposal If you feel like you're burning out just try to stop and ask for help There are a ton of people that will hopefully help you Even if it's just people online that you can connect with if you're an animator in the animation industry But at the same time, you know, again, it's very personal. It's very subjective I might also just be guessing and if you feel like you're burning out right now You need help you can let me know in the comments. It's connected. It's email There's anything I can do to help you With whatever means that I have just let's connect. Let's see what we can do together So you don't have to do this whole thing by yourself. That's it. I should just jump into the lake right now I'm not gonna do this, but this is it from me, but I will see you next week in America again for the usual schedule I lied. I'm not slapping here. I'm gonna say goodbye. This is my parents house And this is the view that helps me reset massively spoiled. Look at this absolutely fantastic