E88: Come back from burnout with Sean McCabe

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Show Notes:

Sean McCabe is the author of a Overlap: How to start a business while working a full time job—and besides that, he writes more than a million words a year. He has helped tens of thousands of students with his courses on client work, pricing, marketing, and more. By day he runs a business community for creative professionals and hosts the Sean Wes podcast.

Highlights:

• How Sean got his start building courses and sharing his knowledge.
• What made Sean start taking sabbaticals, and why he’s never looked back.
• How to successfully implement a sabbatical program for yourself and your employees.
• Best advice ever received: Show up every day.
• Habit that contributes to success: Waking up early.
• Favorite tool: Forest App
• Book recommendations: The power of full engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

Links:

• Sabbatical.blog
• Seanwes.com
• Overlapbook.com – it’s free!
• Seanwes podcast

Quotes:

• “It was an identity thing.”
• “Who am I to teach about business?”
• “You have to rest as hard as you hustle.”
• “I had to grit my teeth….and take a week off.”
• “Give ourselves that freedom.”
• “We do better work….we get more work done.”
• “If you’re asking yourself if you’re burned out, it’s already too late.”
• “I’m gonna trust the process.”
• “I more focus on energy, rather than time.”
• “I trust people to get the work done.”

Takeaways:

• Go for it. There’s one rule: freedom from obligation. And don’t forget that the second sabbatical is the hardest!