Avoiding Burnout for Freelancers

Name: Avoiding Burnout for Freelancers
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Ergonomic, psychological, and lifestyle tips for long-term success

Created byJohn Fry

Last updated 3/2020

English

What you'll learn

Achieve long-term success in your freelance career
Four ergonomic strategies to avoid burnout
Three psychological strategies to avoid burnout
Three lifestyle strategies to avoid burnout
The one input device that every freelancer needs but few have

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 30m total length

Introduction3:45
Welcome freelancers! In this lesson you'll learn what burnout is, why freelancers are vulnerable to it, and why we want to avoid it. Since burnout can manifest itself mentally, emotionally, and physically, we need a comprehensive approach to preventing it.
Ergonomic strategies to prevent physical burnout8:29
These strategies will enhance your productivity and help you avoid physical burnout, including repetitive stress injuries.
Psychological strategies to prevent emotional burnout5:38
These psychological strategies will keep you motivated and prevent emotional burnout.
Lifestyle strategies to prevent mental burnout4:55
These lifestyle strategies will promote happiness and prevent mental burnout.
Summary: ten strategies to avoid burnout3:43
This is a summary of the ten strategies to prevent burnout achieve long-term success in your freelance career. Let's all get better at what we do, make more money, and have more fun!
How to order and program your foot pedal input device4:09
I show you the programmable foot pedal I use to reduce the number of keystrokes I have to enter using my hands and wrists.

Requirements

Description

This course is about avoiding burnout to achieve long-term success in your freelance career. This course is intended for freelance programmers, translators, writers, bloggers, designers, web developers, consultants, and other professionals who want to manage their physical and psychological stress to prevent burnout. It starts by showing you how to establish a good ergonomic workstation, including the one input device -- a foot pedal -- that every freelancer needs but few have. Next, with good ergonomic practices under your belt (literally), you will learn some psychological and lifestyle techniques for avoiding burnout, including the "growth mindset" and the "workstation popcorn" productivity hack that is popular with digital nomads.

Who this course is for:

Freelance professionals (programmers, translators, writers, bloggers, designers, web developers, etc.) who want to manage stress to prevent burnout