I’m dictating this to you right now, because as all of you know I dictate.

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Alright, that’s it with the shameless plug. Now onto what I really want to talk about:

How do you deal with life burn-out…

So you don’t kill somebody at a traffic light?

So you don’t scream and yell at your kids?

So you don’t fault your dog for being a dog?

I’m at the end of a serious stretch. Well, if I think about it, I worked the week before Monday through Friday.

Went to Chicago for a boot camp, that makes seven days.

Then worked this week. So I am basically at a stretch where I’ve done 12 straight days of working.

Now, I love my work, I think it is fantastic, but 12 days of coaching, 12 days of listening to people, 12 days of being in tune with everybody — because when I coach, I am intuitively dialing into who they are as a person so I can help figure out exactly what is blocking them from achieving the life and love success that they want.

I listen carefully to every word that they say and I take notes so I’m able to help them transform their life and do so in a fast, efficient way instead of having to pay years and years and years of endless therapy.

That takes a lot of brainwaves. It takes a lot of bandwidth.

And it also just takes a lot of energy, energy out.

I’m taking it in and I’m pouring the energy out.

I’m not complaining at all, because I find it a blessing to be able to impact and help people become who they always wanted to be. I enjoy every single minute of it, and that’s why I chose to do this for a living.

But, as I’m dictating this, driving to a friend’s house on a Friday night, I realize I am fucking burnt out.

I didn’t get to do as many of the creative programs that I wanted to do this week. I’ll probably now schedule them for next week because I’ve got some unbelievably amazing creative products and projects that I want to get to all of you.

So how do I deal with life burn-out?

I know when I’m burnt out when I think to myself, I just want to get the fuck out of here and leave.

It’s a feeling I get when I’m burnt out. I try to close my eyes and think about the most peaceful place I can imagine and to me, it’s always back at my grandmother’s house in childhood. I always imagine being back on the eastern end of Long Island and maybe Sky Harbor or Hampton Bay, or kicking back on a patio or porch, watching the sunset, listening to the birds and really just kicking back and smelling the beautiful, incredible, fresh bay air.

To me, the sun in California is way too strong, way too hot. I love the east coast sun, because you can actually allow it to sink into your skin without feeling it’s going to melt you to the bone.

Knowing that I can’t get on a plane and leave because I have my daughter this weekend.

I then think about how I can deal with burn-out without really snapping at any of my friends because people want me to show up for them and enjoy my company.

When I get this way, I realize I’ve got to make some changes.

Nothing radical at all, but I need to realize I need to take a little more of a time out. I’ve always been a type-A personality and I’ve got some major goals and aspirations right now to accomplish a lot of different things.

I call this the adult version of the time out.

When you’re feeling all twisted and tangled up and you just need a time out, take one. Take the afternoon off, do something you love. Watch TV, go for a walk. Walk, work out, or swim, or talk to people, connect. Whatever brings you joy and happiness.

If you wake up the following morning and realize, well, you know what you need a little bit more of a time out again, then I strongly suggest you take the second time out, spend another day just turning off your electronic devices, not answering texts. The texts are actually energy out.

Not answering e-mails.

Just taking the time for yourself to regenerate, rejuvenate, and really get connected back to yourself. There’s a lot of demand in today’s modern world and sometimes we just need to unplug, to just feel better and so we don’t burn out.