Most burnout advice is designed for visible burnout*, but yours is disguised.

Yours still looks like executing at a level no one questions. You’re the one no-one is worried about AND that’s the real problem.

It feels like burnout*. But what is happening is far more dangerous. 

It’s harder to see from the outside, because it doesn’t look like burnout. From the outside it looks like success, but from the inside you are feeling the internal cost. 

Because burnout shuts you down. But you, you’re still showing up.  

The kicker is the solution isn’t just doing less, it’s doing things differently. In ways that work with your energy instead of against it. 

Most leaders are not in traditional burnout*, they’re in Functional Burnout caused by chronic sustained self-override.

The painful irony is that for years, you were rewarded for pushing past your limits. Being available, being responsive and carrying more load than you should. And it worked, until it didn’t, because you hid it w...