two weeks ago I shared this video on Instagram
so we have just sold another deal
are you talking about it? it's just like making me feel so fucking happy
it doesn't even look good but yeah
but what I didn't share was the following 14 days after it I just completely spiral into a burnout right
like I'm talking I was exhausted my whole body was sore I had to take time off work
couldn't go to viewings, analysing properties was out of the question and just sending an email felt like it was running a 10k
and I know it sounds like I'm exaggerating but honestly at the time that's what it felt like
so in this video I'm going to explore why that's the case
why can you go from being so happy like you cry like you're on top of the world
to burning out within a day like within a day so I want to explore that
I'm also wanting to explore what burnout is, how to identify it, the cause of it
and the solution that I came up with for me that seemed to have worked
and I'm also going to share the one piece of advice that my fiance gave me
and it made it all go away within hours
I'm being serious like this piece of advice is for me anyway life-changing
but I am going to throw out a little bit of a disclaimer here
I'm not an expert in this sort of thing this is just what I've done it's what worked for me
and if you are experiencing a burnout but it's going for a long time then I don't know
maybe seek some professional help speak to someone and yeah this is just what worked for me
and I hope it helps so if you don't know who I am and you're wondering who this kid is
and why you should listen to him I'm Scott McPherson and I own these two companies
and basically I just help people have their money put to work for them
without them having to lift a finger and I do it through property investment
and I started from scratch at the start of last year and I'm still building these companies so
my goal is just to simply share every lesson I learn in the hopes that it helps people that
are going through what I have been and I still am going through it
now I'm going to stop wasting your time and finally get to the video so I've googled it
and it says burnout is a state of mental physical and emotional exhaustion
that can result from chronic workplace stress that has not been managed successfully
and that hits the nail on the head for me that's exactly what it was for me
I was mentally physically and emotionally exhausted and I didn't manage all I didn't
manage nothing okay so I had no control over anything or I could have controlled it
I just disregarded it and next up we have this is where it gets good cause what caused it
all right after two seconds I have to get a book
now this is one of Lauren's acting books and when I was opening up to her about this about what I was
going through she stopped what I was saying and ran and got this book because she knows me better
than I do man it's pretty cool but she found this page and threw it in my face and said
look at this all right you're not gonna be able to see it I'm gonna draw it so here I have drawn
the diagram that from Lauren's book basically when I opened up to her and I said exactly what I was
feeling and it was tough basically just saying to someone that you care about like how much you're
struggling she stopped what I was saying and she ran and got this book and then this book was this
diagram so we got the left brain and we got the right brain the left brain sequence analysis
linear maths language verbal logic and the right brain is intuition creative arts feelings rhythm
non-verbal and imagination now in order to do what I do in property investment owning a business and
all that jazz right I have to primarily be this side this is a lot of it some of it is like some
of this side is used and through content creation and say I don't know marketing branding and all
that whatnot but mainly it's this side I'm this side and I know it says arts and I know that's
terrible don't worry about that this was rushed I am this side though like this is who I am as a
person to my core but for the last couple of years I've had to force myself being this side now
have you ever thought of a time where you've had to pretend to be someone that you're not maybe
I don't know like something as simple as a networking event you have to go there stand up and
sell your services and sell who you are and it kind of at the start doesn't feel real it doesn't
feel authentic like but it's what's required that's what you need to do in order to grow this has been
me and I've completely abandoned this so when she showed this to me it was just like holy shit
it was just lack of a better words it was fucking life-changing to be honest because I didn't first
of all I didn't know I was this person she just she knew me but I now had a plan I now knew
what the cause of what this burnout was because a lot of the stress came from what the fuck is
causing it what is causing it like I'm I was just crying I was so happy what is causing it
and she came up with a solution and she came up with the cause instantly now I do have other
solutions I'm going to go through later on that I've actually put in place like physical solutions
I put in place but for now that is what I believe to be the cause now we're going to go through
so next up this is an important one it's identify how do you identify your own identity
how do you identify oh my god focus how do you identify that a burnout is coming right how do
you know it's a burnout how do you know you're not just feeling sick right it could be just a flu
so for me when it comes to burning out I know that it's coming up when small tasks start to feel
like moving them out and right when I'm starting to feel like oh my god I can't
send an email oh my god like I just I can't reply to this person you know like the small things
just feel huge right and obviously my body starts to get sore like I start to it's usually my legs
like my legs start to get sore my arms start to get sore and then I'm like all right something's
wrong something's wrong here so and then ask myself four questions and the first one is am I
eating healthy the answer to that was just a flat no absolutely not the second one
am I resting enough again that was no I was working every minute of the day I could sleeping
five or six hours a day because I couldn't not work when I stopped working I felt unproductive
I felt crap so I was working all the time the next question I ask is am I exercising
I ain't doing no exercise man I ain't doing nothing I am just sitting at this desk or in my bed
or on a chair whilst lifeguarding I'm just sitting most of the time not exercising and it's funny
because I went to boxing a few weeks ago and I absolutely loved it when I was there I was like
holy shit like this is amazing like I felt all this like stress relief and met people there had
a laugh it was just amazing and didn't go back because in my head I was not working I wasn't
moving the needle forward so I abandoned exercise and to touch on why I wasn't eating healthy I
thought if I was cooking I wasn't getting work done so I just had ready meals I'd have crisps
everything I had came out of a packet or a box right it was just it was destined for failure and
the final question I asked myself is am I doing things that I enjoy now I have a guitar back there
I haven't picked up in months again with boxing I enjoy that I've done it in ages and the content
I was creating for a long time I'd say the last few weeks I've enjoyed that but for the longest
time the content I was creating I didn't enjoy it and the business side of things like I really
enjoy refurbs I really enjoy I don't know going to networking events and meeting people and you know
out in the field stuff I really enjoy that but for the whole time for a long time it's just been sat
in emails texts property analysis you know like all of these just sat at a computer tasks and I
know I've been going to a few viewings and stuff but I think there's other things that I enjoy in
it so whether it was business or personal life I just wasn't doing things I enjoy so I wasn't eating
healthy wasn't exercising wasn't resting and I wasn't doing things in joy I was on a one-way
path to burning out so I have a solution for each one and the first one is get a chest freezer
I know that sounds mental right but we live in a studio me and Lauren we live in a studio because
all of our money is going to act in a property so in a studio we have like a small compact fridge
with one drawer as a freezer and I like meal prep I like preparing all my meals at the start of the
week so I don't have to worry about it for the rest of the week so in this sense I'm still getting
to do like all the work that I want to do but I also get the benefits of eating healthy so I
decided to get a chest freezer that has three drawers bougie right that's so posh can't believe
it like that is so that's big time for us so I'm going to start meal prep start of each week and
then just freeze it all and then just obviously scran it throughout the week that's uh that's the
plan I'm not a genius honestly I just realized my microphone's like this right the next solution I
have and this one's for rest right the solution I have for this this is something you can definitely
do and I do not want to hear any excuse as to why you can't do it it is set time limits for your
social media apps you may go Scott but I post on this and I have to interact with all these people
and I have to make sure that I reply to messages I don't care I don't care you do not do it on all
platforms if you're in property investment right and you're spending hours like five hours on tick
tock what are you doing what are you doing so set limits 30 minutes you wouldn't believe how far 30
minutes goes now if you're mindlessly scrolling 30 minutes goes like that it's not enough if that
is your like what you want to do however if you want to use it for just replying to messages
reaching out to people replying to comments each comment reply takes about 10 seconds yes you may
need to post and it might take a little bit of time to like post something but that might take
about three minutes four minutes I'm telling you 30 minutes on each one is enough and if you have
like Facebook and you have Twitter Instagram uh tick tock that's still two hours you're still
getting two hours in and if that's not enough then I don't know what to tell you because those two
hours could be allocated to doing something a lot better anyway but I think it's good not to just
fully cut something out because then the stress of not having it will just distract you from
regular work that's my plan anyway so I do 30 minute time limits now and I've got enough time
I am always well not in the last couple weeks because burnout the theme in the video right
obviously so I've tried it and it works the 30 minute thing it works now I love to scroll
and tick tock so it's not enough for that but for what I do I post I reply to comments I reply to
dms I have leads coming through on Instagram people that I need to reply to like this is money
generating um stuff and the 30 minute time limit still works so try that and let me know how it
goes and I also have um stopped all business work at 7 p.m now I'm recording this uh 10 to 8
now to me this isn't business this is my hobby which brings me on to the next one starting doing
things I enjoy and with the last video that you may or may not have seen and with my Instagram
content I've started to do things I enjoy and I've stopped caring about followers and subscribers
and likes and all that bullshit like I've stopped caring about it because that caused me stress too
if I was getting like 10 followers in a day and I got one the next day I'd be like whoa what's
going on or if I got like half the amount of likes and half the views all that fake shit
that was stressing me out big time so in order to change that I've decided to just create content
that I like create content for me that's say two years ago Scott three years ago Scott when I was
starting all of this out that's who I'm creating this for and my god that definitely helps so
that's what I enjoy that's not work to me yes it complements the business because I get leads I get
people reaching out asking how do they work with me how do they invest with me but
I'm just lucky enough that the thing that I love doing most also helps the business
then the third one was exercise I've started just going for walks simple because I know all of these
changes are going to be overwhelming and if I do all of them if I just go straight back to boxing
and no social media and all of these things like it would just be too much so I'm just going for
walks and I might jog if I'm on that walk but I get out of the city the city's noisy city's chaotic
I'm from like a tiny place in the north of Scotland and I live in a big city now so getting out of the
city into the hills into the trees and fresh air and the silence that's where I can find my
that's where I can feel good that's where I can relax that's where I can truly de-stress
so getting out of the city and having me time turning off that 4g turning it off and only people
that have my number and if they call me can get to me and that way I can just completely relax
and that's where content ideas come from that's where like business ideas like business plans
come from and just allowing myself to just disconnect that is definitely helping now I
understand that I've talked about me this is how I've helped me and you're like thinking
it's good for you Scott congratulations well done you just spent how many minutes bragging
about how you've managed to solve your burnout whilst I'm sat here wondering how do I solve mine
and I get that and I get that I get that it might not work for you these specific things
that I've done but don't take it too literally figure out the cause of it so for me I was
pretending to be someone that I wasn't in order to make the business grow I wasn't eating healthy
I wasn't exercising I wasn't resting I wasn't doing things I enjoy ask yourself all of those
questions and be honest with yourself be honest with yourself am I doing those things am I
actually eating healthy or am I just like having a banana each morning and then just eating shite
for the rest of the day and I think that I'm eating healthy or I think that my calories aren't as much
as they actually are if you tracked your calories for one week you'd realize
holy shit some things have double the amount that I actually thought they would and I want you to
ask yourself are you resting enough are you getting enough sleep are you getting enough down time
are you switching it off are you switching off the hundred mile an hour business the grind right
because if you get caught up in that you'll not sleep and the business starts with you and if you
don't sleep you don't get enough rest you can't get creative you can't be sharp you can't make
fast and sharp and good quality decisions so make sure you're getting enough rest and the next one
exercising now it's easy to sit at a desk and that's nice to have a standing desk you might
have a standing desk but that ain't going to cut it are you going outside are you going are you
leaving your apartment are you leaving your house are you going outside into the air the fresh air
and going for a walk are you going for a run are you I don't know doing any other form of exercising
but you might think Scott I don't like exercising it's tough I don't know what to do I suggest going
for a class because you might meet people there and when you meet people and you feel part of a
group you realize other people in that class are starting for example when I went to boxing
I boxed up in Scotland I'm not pro I'm not an amateur or anything like that I didn't even
compete or fight anyone properly I just went for the training and when I went to one in Sheffield
I didn't know anyone there I was scared like it was not only was I nervous that I didn't know
anyone I knew I was going to get punched in the head like many times so like it was it was nerve
wrecking but when I got there there was three other people that were just brand new they were
brand new because they single you out at the start they're like who's never boxed before who's not
boxing a long time you pop your hand up they take you to a side and they just teach you the
fundamentals again and then you know who else is new and you connect with them and then you
all just understand that yeah we're new it's cool let's just stick together and the funny part is
the people that are there that are experienced they also help out because they were new so if
you're scared of going to a class if you're scared of exercising if you're scared of
doing all those things and I get it I know what that's like but just know that they were all new
first when they started and there's going to be other new people there as well so exercising
isn't just about getting fit it's about meeting other people outside of what you do outside of
the business that you're in because it's good to meet other people who also have some shared
interest in you outside of the business outside of work and the last question you got to ask
yourself is are you doing things that you enjoy so for me like I said I like playing the guitar
I like drawing other than that little crap brain that I drew early I do actually like drawing and
then I like editing I like content creation I like this this is what I like I'm not actually
talking to a person I'm talking to a camera but I feel like I'm talking to myself I feel like I'm
talking to Scott that was starting out and I think you need to just find something that when you're
doing it other people may think it's difficult but to you it's easy because you truly enjoy it you
truly enjoy it down to your core whether it's going to like pottery class playing football with your
mates gaming I don't know playing an instrument could be anything find something that you enjoy
that you used to enjoy when you're growing up and spend time doing it before I played before I hit
record I was just playing on the guitar not playing around in months felt great I loved it
and I'm starting to feel like Scott again and it sounds so cliched it sounds so cheesy I know it
does but I'm starting to feel like me again and when I feel like me it helps the business when I
feel like me it helps this content creation which ultimately helps other people so it might start
as simple as doing something that I enjoy but you don't realize how far it goes because when you're
not yourself it's tough to be present it's really tough you know I mean you've seen what Lauren done
to help me with this diagram you've seen how amazing it is incredible she's awesome amazing
and uh when I wasn't myself leading up to this burnout and doing it I wasn't present with her so
it's not just for yourself doing these things that you enjoy focusing on all of these things
it's for the people around you and your business it's so much more important than you think because
if you've experienced burnout you're looking at me and you know yeah it's pretty much it it's rough
it's pretty much it it's rough it's tough and it sucks it sucks like god can't even put into words
now I know this video got a bit intense at the end but if I could tell myself all of this
before I burn out I would which is why I made this I'm desperately telling you please listen
to what I'm saying and just take on any information that you learn from this video because
if you haven't experienced it amazing congratulations like I'm so jealous but you've
got to prevent it prevention instead of reaction that's where you want to be and that's where you
want to do and um yeah there's not really much else to say at the end of this if you enjoyed this
if you found this helpful subscribe I would really appreciate it I'm on a road to 100 subscribers
yeah if you know someone that isn't a bit of a rat is going through a lot of stress and is feeling
a bit burnt out send them this video it could help them if you are going through it you're not
alone this is it this is rough I know multi-millionaires that go through this shit and
it's normal it's just better to prevent it than to react to it I'll see you in the next one