A speaker reflects on personal experiences of burnout, attributing it often to inefficiency or getting stuck in repetitive, futile work. They emphasize reading and continual learning, the value of a consultant peer network, and being willing to seek outside perspectives; the speaker also highlights honesty from clients as key to effective consulting and problem-solving.
When I start getting burnt out, it's because things are just getting too heavy, and that makes me think there's. There's something. I don't know. I'm not doing something efficiently. I'll always be reminded that me and Jeff Bezos have the exact same amount of hours in a day. Me and Elon Musk have the exact same amount of hours in a day. If I get burnt out, it's typically because I'm. I'm frustrated. I'm doing, you know, the Sisyphusian, you know, rolling this damn rock up the hill. I. I'm doing something inefficiently or I'm not thinking about a solve in a. In a more dynamic way, so reading and just constantly seeking education, you know, and then I have a good. I have a good network of people. Obviously, you. I've got a lot of buddies who are consultants, and sometimes. Listen, it. It's real. And it's no less real than it was 30 years ago when. God, almost 30 years ago when I owned my first restaurant. 28 years ago. You get in it, and sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. Yeah. So I have to just objectively go take my. My challenges to other people and say, man, what am I missing? What am I doing? And I'll walk people through kind of what. What the frustration is and challenges. And that's. I guess that's the beauty of. I think in order to be a good consultant, you have to be willing to be consulted with. Right. And just be honest. And I'll tell you that that's true with all the clients that I work with. The ones that have the best results are the ones that are just painfully honest, the ones that are just, like, ashamedly honest. Just, here's everything, and I know it, but I don't know what to do because I'm putting out fires, dealing with all this other.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
