Stop Startup Burnout: Focus on Vision, Not Fear

Stop Startup Burnout: Focus on Vision, Not Fear

Sue Leppan Transformation Facilitator & Life Coach

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Stop Startup Burnout: Focus on Vision, Not Fear

As a Startup Entrepreneur, you carry both your dream and your responsibilities. There is a danger: when your attention stays fixed on problems and past failures, you overload yourself with responsibility that doesn’t move you forward.

You create busyness in your head - running in circles, replaying mistakes, worrying about what might go wrong. And the result?

  Loss of focus.
  Loss of motivation.
  The slow slide into burnout.

When your mind is filled with stress and fear, your energy drains. Your body starts to carry the weight through fatigue, tension, and even health challenges. And all the while, your dream - your reason for starting - feels further and further away.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

When you shift your focus from problems to possibilities, from the past to your vision, you create clarity, confidence, and momentum.

You are not meant to live in overwhelm. You are meant to grow your dream with joy, energy, and purpose.

Ask yourself today: Am I fueling my burnout by focusing on fear - or fueling my dream by focusing on my vision?

Your business will follow the direction of your focus. Choose wisely.

Stop Startup Burnout: Focus on Vision, Not Fear

Sue Leppan Transformation Facilitator & Life Coach

Sue Leppan is a life, transformation and holistic wellness coach based in Sandbaai, Hermanus. Providing therapy for a range of challenges, Sue specialises in targeting and dealing with emotional trauma, self-doubt, depression, stagnation and self-centring. Whether you need help with personal issues ...

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