- Burnout isn't a discipline problem. It's an infrastructure problem.
Most CEOs, founders and executives think they're failing because they're not working hard enough. The truth is the opposite.
They're treating every task as an elite-level goal acquisition framework, living in absolutes, chasing peak performance on a continual basis, and wondering why their sleep, energy, digestion and drive have fallen by the wayside.
You can't summit Everest and stay at the top. You climb, you summit, you return to base camp. Performance works the same way. Optimal isn't the peak. Optimal is the baseline you build the capacity to operate from, around 80% of the time, so you've always got 20% left to push when it counts.
In this video I break down two things.
First, the mechanism of burnout itself. The performance curve from boredom, through the comfort zone, into the stretch zone where optimal performance lives, and then into strain and crisis where most people break.
- I explain allostatic load, why your nervous system is wired to protect you, and why a client of mine operating at a super high level felt incredible right up until the point she was nearly hospitalised two weeks later.
- I introduce the Built For Pressure Capacity Index. The diagnostic I built after years of recognising one thing. You cannot think your way to a healthy system. If your physiology isn't in the right place, everything becomes a firefight.
The Capacity Index scores you across seven foundations:
Sleep Stability
Energy and Nutrition
Stress Regulation
Recovery Capacity
Physical Capacity
Environment and Behaviour
Cognitive Performance
Each one gives you a score and a radar graph that shows you exactly which lever to pull that week to bring your performance back up. Because from a physiological standpoint, every one of these levers is tied to the others.
This is for the CEO, executive, director or founder who is pushing their limits, building the company, and knows they also have to look, feel and perform at their best in real time.
Watch the breakdown, then take the diagnostic and put it into your own process. Review your week, find your lever, and shorten the gap between knowing and doing.
Links to the Capacity Index and further tools are below.
Link - https://bfp-capacity-index.netlify.app/
If this has resonated and you want to learn more about the program, DM the word BFP on any of the channels below.
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What is The Built For Pressure Podcast ?
This podcast is for leaders, business owners and executives to find their next 1%.
This podcast will educate those who want to regain their edge, consistently perform during times that matter and turn potential into performance.
- Human Optimisation
- Peak Performance
- Elite Mindset Strategy
- Personal Development
- Communication
- Leadership Performance
- Business Growth
These are all parts of the bigger puzzle for the modern leader.
This podcast is designed to connect and remodel what modern day leadership needs to become.
We are placing the human at the forefront of the performance.