Here's how you can prevent burnout as a business coach through self-care.

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Rest is a top performer's secret weapon and is essential to sustainable long-term success as a business coach. Helping clients make an impact in their work and life requires high focus, constant new learning, raising the bar and often high energy. In order to maintain these levels over time, a business coach must equally prioritize: rest days away from work, rest times during the day, deep sleep for body and mind recovery and integrate regular mindfulness practices.

To prevent burnout as a business coach, setting boundaries is essential. Clearly define your working hours and stick to them. Avoid taking calls or responding to emails outside these hours. Take regular breaks during the day to recharge. Set limits on the number of clients or sessions per day to avoid overworking. Ensure you have time for personal activities, hobbies, and rest. Communicate these boundaries to your clients and colleagues to manage their expectations. By setting and respecting boundaries, you can maintain a healthy work-life balance and prevent burnout, ensuring you stay effective and energized in your coaching role.

Self-care requires awareness of what helps and hurts oneself. With this awareness, we can set boundaries and limitations around both to create a balance that is healthy and productive for ourselves. Examples may include limiting the number of days or hours we work, the number of clients we take on simultaneously while ensuring we dedicate enough time to physical exercise, time with family and friends and other activities that nourish us.

Mindfulness practices scheduled at key moments of the day can be pivotal in our performance and well-being. My experience has led me to perform short meditations in the morning, afternoon and evening (ideally), allowing me to prepare effectively for the day, recalibrate during the day and finally, unwind and support deep sleep at night. A clear mind is able to make better decisions, manage stress more effectively and be more effective at work.

Self-care also requires nourishing the body in the form of nutrient-dense food (at optimum times), hydration, exercise and even the appropriate amount of sunlight. My personal routine includes: -0.5L osmosis filtered water upon waking -15 mins meditation -15 min HIIT exercises -15 min early morning sunlight (with coffee) -Nutrient-dense breakfast or fasting Finding what works best for you takes some experimenting but your energy and focus levels should dramatically increase.

If your work isn't already your greatest passion, make time to do and discover it / them. Dedicating time and energy to what we love energises and fulfils us, essential to our well-being and happiness. It's also an opportunity to develop our mindset and learning, even as a business coach, by doing completely unrelated acitivities with different people.

Self-care is about knowing what you need and making it a priority to ensure you're getting what you need when you need it. It's about being proactive, not reactive. Pacing is key. Yes, there are times when you can push your limits as long as you understand you can't do that indefinitely and provide compensating actions that facilitate and support reflection and recovery in a timely manner.