Burnout is Real #shorts

Ashish Kothari shares a three-minute morning practice to fight burnout: no phone, no email, just gratitude and asking yourself how you want to be today. He uses it with small kids and a hectic household.
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I'm going to take a leap and assume that many people, maybe not all many people who will listen to this feel like they're at capacity. And so I want to speak to those people first. Right. If you feel like I have not a moment in the day and I get up and I am on all the time. Part of my message to you is act against those instincts and spend and you mentioned you do this and I do too as she and it is invaluable. I have small children. My household never sleeps. As soon as they're up, it's chaos all day long and I until. Until bedtime. So I have started cracking open a very small amount of space in the morning. I've been doing that for years. I do a gratitude practice, I read. That's when I learn. But I'll tell you what, I do not pick up my phone, I don't read my email, I do not get on technology. I spend some time reflecting and it's something that I work on with many clients. You don't need an hour, you need three minutes to start. That's it. Before you and I three minutes of you are awake, maybe you're drinking your coffee and you put the very last sip on the table and you sit for three minutes. You may breathe in time. I like to teach them priming techniques and kind of brain, you know, brain related strategies. But even so today if you're listening and you don't know those yet, you haven't read the book yet, the very smallest thing you can do is ask yourself two questions. How do I want to be today? How do I want to show up? What's on your calendar? What would that look like? If you're your best self and what is your most meaningful move? And when you ask it in that way, it isn't about I've got to be here, I'm busy, right? It kind of replaces like I'm going to go through the day on autopilot and shifts it back into your intention with time. You crack open that little space and you feel a dividends of the intention that creates. Then we can come back and add on, stack on other strategies. But the most, in my humble opinion, the most underutilized strategy today is reflection.
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