In 2022 I started to feel burnt out with building content. I have spent the last few years trying to figure out how to overcome burnout as a content creator, but the reality was it had seeped into my everyday life.
At first, I thought it started with being bored with my content, so I decided to stop posting on social media, on KZread & even my blogs. While there was still a ping of anxiety from not posting, I felt that everything I wanted to post didn’t have relevance.
I took a deeper look at when these feelings of boredom, anxiety, and depression started to kick in. And that’s when I realized this has been around for years.
In my senior year of college, I lost a big part of my identity when I fell & broke my back in a horseback riding accident. That year I had lost 2 of my horses due to cancer so when my accident happened I knew immediately my career (or hobby whatever you want to call it) was over.
After recovering, I spent the next 10 or so years trying to figure out who I was without this part of me. I went from one thing to another with many unfinished or barely started projects.
That was when I realized I was missing joy in my life. The self-identity that I had when it came to horseback riding & competing was gone & I had unknowingly been on this journey of self-discovery that was ultimately causing my to become burntout.
Is this the feeling many of the football, soccer, lacrosse players in high school felt when they didn’t get recruited in college?
Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and often physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress. (www.psychologytoday.com/us/ba...)
Finding a way to overcome burnout can be difficult when you don’t feel like there is no end to the situation.
Reaching out to my friends, I realized that many of them were struggling with the balance of finding the joy they had as kids with all the responsibility that came with becoming an adult.
How do you overcome something that your peers are struggling with as well & no one has the “right” answer. This is the question I want & need to tackle.
Since my last video, a lot has happened, but the biggest was developing a plan to overcome burnout & find joy in my life, career, & content creation.
What does this mean for my channel? Will I still be posting about SEO?
Truly I don’t think so, but that doesn’t mean I won’t, it just won’t be my main focus.