Financial planning and education (without the jargon) I Creating blueprints for high-earning sales executives and business owners

I left the financial industry because I saw a problem.

People wanted to work with a planner, but they ended up becoming a number on a spreadsheet.

I had to leave to start something new.

And now?

I'm a fee-only planner who helps salespeople & equity compensated employees under 45 give a purpose to their paycheck.

I left the large financial institutions to start my own independent company. I did it so people could pay for real planning and not just an agenda to sell a hidden product. 

As a true fiduciary, Pashman Financial, LLC was built on that promise by focusing on you and you only.

🔵 Why people hire me? 

Well, people have come to me with the following problems:

- They want peace of mind with their money
- Their old advisor barely communicates with them
- They want an answer tailored to them, not from Google
- They felt pressured to buy a product that wasn't a right fit
- They are great at making money but struggle to keep it
- They want a simple plan that's easy to understand
- They want someone to hold them accountable
- They want someone they can trust

🔵 What are my services?

I help identify your goals, craft a financial blueprint that lays out action items to hit them, and monitor your progress. 

💵 Cash Flow Management  
📈 Equity Compensation
🏡 Real Estate Planning
📊 Investment Planning
📍 Retirement Planning
🛡 Insurance Planning
📚 Education Planning
💲 Tax Management
💳 Debt Repayment
📃 Estate Planning

🔵 Who do I serve?

Age: Individuals and families between 30-50 years old
Target: Sales pros, tech employees, other millennial families
Location: Virtually anywhere in the U.S.

But I love working with people that are driven to make a change. So even if you don’t fit these criteria, feel free to reach out. Your personality is everything. 

🔵 Why I'm different?

1) My model is primarily a flat fee service. No time trap. 

2) I do not require you to hand over your investments nor require a minimum to work with. Managing your assets is optional and I'll still assist you if you do it yourself. My focus is ongoing financial planning. 

3) I focus on how to increase your cash flow, not just your assets. I work with you to ensure your systems are set and consistently educate you on how your finances work. I get paid to truly keep you accountable over time.

You can find my pricing in my "featured" section on the website. 

Stop delaying action. Shoot me a message to schedule a complimentary intro.

Max Pashman, CFP®

70% of millionaires currently work with a financial advisor. 

Here's why many end up hiring one. 

They realize that financial planning is more than just a return. 

They also realize they have limited time on their hands. 

Like business owners, they outsource their skills

But there's so much than "what do i invest":

It's about:

- Goal Planning
- Debt Repayment
- Ongoing Education
- Emergency Fund Building
- Cash Flow Management
- Equity Comp. Planning
- Charitable Strategies
- Investment Planning
- Education Planning
- Insurance Planning
- Estate Planning
- Exit Planning
- Tax Planning
- Etc. 

And if your financial planner isn't addressing these properly with you?

It may be time to find a new one.

Helping Founders and Executives Plan for Early Retirement and Exit

If you have less than $100k, you shouldn't focus on returns.

In fact, it's a waste of your time. Here's why:

Charlie Munger once said:

"The first $100,000 is a b****.... but you gotta do it"

He wasn't talking about just returns, though. 

He was talking about your income. 

How quickly can you get it up there with your paycheck? 

In other words, what you save versus what you return. 

Just look at this example:

A 100% return on $1,000 is $1,000.

But a 10% return on $100,000 is $10,000.

10X less the return, yet 10x the dollar amount. 

And here's the best part about this. 

It's much easier to do the latter. 

In other words, it's much easier to save to $100,000 than trying to get a 1,000% return on an investment.

Not easy, but not impossible either. 

So if you haven't hit that number?

Focus on your savings rate. 

Not just your returns.

The market can wait.

If you grew up watching any of these as a kid:

- Spongebob
- Hey Arnold
- Powerpuff Girls
- That's So Raven
- Boy Meets World
- Hannah Montana
- Dexters Laboratory
- The Magic School Bus
- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Fairly Odd Parents
- Wild Thornberrys
- Jimmy Neutron
- Lizzie McQuire
- Ed Edd n Eddy
- Dragon Ball Z
- Pokemon
- Yu Gi Oh
- All That
- Catdog
- Rugrats
- Arthur
- Doug

It's time to open up a Roth IRA.

75% of Americans regret not investing earlier. 
 
Here is the power of starting early (and the cost of waiting):
 
What you see in the illustration are 4 people: 
 
- 20 year old 
- 30 year old 
- 40 year old 
- 50 year old 
 
Now, as you get older, your income increases. 
 
Therefore, each generation can contribute more. 
 
So I ran a quick calculation. 
 
For ever 10 years, double the contributions. 
 
You can contribute more, but have less time to invest. 
 
Assuming an average return of 7%? 
 
The results are simply remarkable. 
 
A 20-year-old who is dedicated to starting early can outperform those with higher contributions. 
 
That doesn't mean high contributions don't matter. 
 
They absolutely do! 
Especially early on your journey. 
The difference, though, is returns helped. 
 
Over time, those returns made a difference thanks to time. 
 
It's really simple, but holds a huge lesson. 
 
There is power getting off to a good start. 

You should have started sooner. 

But you aren't too late.
 
Don't wait any longer!

Most don't realize they could put up to $72,000 in a Roth. 

Here's the "Mega Backdoor Roth" explained:

Compared to the IRA, the 401 k) has a couple of advantages, including: 
 
- Larger contribution limitations 
- Matching contributions 
- No income limitation 
 
In addition, it still offers a Roth component. 
 
But the part people overlook? 
 
The total contribution limit. 
 
On the employee side, it's $24,500 (2026).
 
Combined with the employer side it's $72,000. 
 
But there is another secret in it. 
 
If your employer allows it, they may permit additional after-tax contributions. 
 
This is taking additional income that has already been taxed and contributing it to a 401(k). 
 
For example: 
 
If the employee contributes $24,500 and the match is $7,500, that's $32,000. 
 
$72,000-$32,000 = $40,000
 
The employee can contribute an extra amount into there. 
 
But that's not where the magic happens. 
 
The magic is what you can do after. 
 
These contributions can be converted to a Roth account. 
 
This can happen in two ways: 
 
1) In-Service Distribution: Make an after-tax contribution + transfer it to an outside Roth IRA 
 
Or 
 
2) In-Plan Roth Conversion: Make after-tax contribution + transfer funds to the Roth 401k of plan 
 
Once again, your employer must allow both after-tax contributions and this type of transfer so check with them first. 
 
This strategy make large contributions to a tax-free account of this size is well known as a "Mega BackDoor Roth". 
 
It's a complicated process so always be sure to coordinate this with a financial professional. 
 
If you're looking to make great strides towards building your future, this is an option you shouldn't overlook. 
 
It's a great vehicle for financial independence.

Note: This is purely educational and should not be considered financial or tax advice. Consult with a professional on your situation before implementing this.

A $300,000+ earner with less than $15,000.

As a financial planner, I've seen more of these inquiries over the last year.

I can't stress this simple message to you all enough:

High income will take you to the next stage of your life. 

Zero planning around it will reverse that.

So when you get a bump in income…

What’s your game plan?

Let’s hear it.

Them: The 401(k) is a scam! 
 
Me: Why do you think that?
 
Them: It's locked until you are 60! 
 
Me: You can get it out early with strategies like 72(t), Rule of 55, Roth Conversion Ladder, and many other reasons. 
 
Them: Well it has high fees! 
 
Me: New 401k providers offer low-cost plans + low-cost funds and you can roll it out later if you really don't like it when you leave. 
 
Them: Well it has limitations! 
 
Me: Yeah but you're talking about $24,500 (2026) for a year, not including the match you get. 
 
Them: Well, the match has a vesting period! 
 
Me: So does equity. It's an incentive and still FREE money in the end. 
 
Them: Well, it was created to supplement your retirement, not fully fund it. 
 
Me: I agree. That's why you don't put all your wealth into a single vehicle and utilize multiple to your advantage.
 
Them: Yeah, well, it's taxed as income at retirement! 
 
Me: Yeah, that's precisely why you get a deduction upfront, and your funds grow tax-deferred, which helps retain wealth over time rather than tax sales and income each year. 
 
Them: Yeah well.... it still sucks! 
 
 
 
Not as many as the excuses made against the 401(k). 
 
It ain't all that bad as people make it to be. 
 
No one claims it will solve all your problems. 
 
But it's not a scam.

Make too much income for a Roth IRA? 
 
Here's how to get around it legally (Updated for 2026!)
 
First, what's the problem? 
 
The Roth IRA is a great vehicle for tax-free growth. 
 
But there are income limitations. 
 
For 2026, those limitations are as follows: 
 
- $153,000 for single filers 
- $242,000 for married filing jointly 
- $0 married filing separately
 
Make above these amounts? 
 
They get phased out or entirely ineligible. 
 
So what to do? 
 
Instead, you could contribute to the Traditional IRA. 
 
But are you contributing to a 401k? 
 
Those deductions might also phase out! 
 
This seems like a lose-lose scenario. 
 
But it opens for an opportunity. 
 
The good news is that you can use the IRA to fund a Roth IRA. 
 
This is known as a Backdoor Roth IRA. 
 
Here's what you could do: 

FIRST: Move all existing IRA money into an employer plan like a 401k. 
 
1) Open a Traditional IRA & Roth IRA 
2) Fund the Traditional IRA 
3) Do NOT invest the funds 
4) Initiate a Roth Conversion into the New Roth IRA 
5) Elect not to withhold taxes 
6) Invest in the Roth IRA 
7) File Form 8606 to show non-deduction in Traditional IRA 
 
This process is why having a Roth 401k is pretty handy: you can make any contribution with no income limitations. 

Remember, this is purely educational and is shown here for simplicity.
 
This is not financial or tax advice, so please consult with a financial and tax professional first.
 
But the door is open for tax-free money!

You've gotta find the right key.

Note: This is purely educational and not financial or tax advice. Seek a professional before acting on any of the information.

80% of their thoughts are on things they can’t control.

Here's why it's a losing choice:

If you spend all your time focusing on the things you can't control, you're investing in a losing strategy.

We see it all the time with money:

You can't control return rates.
But you can control savings rates.

You can't control tax laws.
But you can control tax planning.

You can't control interest rates.
But you can control your credit score.

You can't control contribution limits.
But you can control diversifying accounts.

You can't control risk of an asset.
But you can control your asset allocation.

You can't control when an emergency will happen.
But you can control the management of your short-term reserves.

You can't control tuition prices.
But you can control which vehicles to choose.

You can't control social security reserves.
But you can control your retirement vehicles.

You can't control inflation.
But you can control where your cash gets parked.

You can't control your death.
But you can control your estate plan.



Want to know why we do financial planning?

Because life is usually out of our control.

Your plan gives you the steering wheel.

Up to you how you steer with it.

Don't sleep on the wheel.

Cutting your Netflix subscription will make you a millionaire.

Here's how you can do it in a year:

- Cut the $18
- Take the $18 and invest it
- Get a return of 5,555,456%

Boom. You've got $1 million

Why aren't more Millennials doing this?

Let's normalize not having everything figured out by your 30s.

Purchasing a home without running the numbers is a coin flip. 

Yet, this is exactly how 99% of people do it.

They'll just look at what the bank will allow them to get.

But they don't look at your numbers:

- Your goals
- Your expenses
- Your future maintenance
- Your potential new furniture
- Your phantom costs not disclosed

And no, going with the notion that "it will pay off later" is not a good strategy. 

Please run the numbers before executing on a home purchase. 

You'd be surprised how unprepared some are for it.

It's not like you can change your mind very easily.

After all, it's only 30 years you are stuck with it...

If your business goes to zero, you close your doors.

If the stock you own goes to zero, they close their doors. 

If the index fund you own goes to zero, money is no longer a problem. 

Now take a look at these three and answer one question:

Which of the downsides is more likely to occur?

High reward comes with high risk. 

It's not about not taking risk. 

It's about managing it.

Welcome to Risk 101.

You can make 7 figures of income. 
 
But it's all useless without this: 
 
"The art is not in making money, but keeping it" 
 
This is especially true with HENRY's. 
 
What is a HENRY? 
 
→ H-igh 
→ E-arner 
→ N-ot 
→ R-ich 
→ Y-et 
 
I've seen this with many cases of successful business owners and tech executives. 
 
Lots of talented people making fantastic revenue and income. 
 
But not many of them without a game plan to keep it. 
 
The culprit is usually simple: 
 
Lack of financial planning. 
 
Without clarity, you don't know what to do with what you earn. 
 
You worked hard to earn your income. 
 
Now make it work harder for you to grow. 
 
But you don't have to struggle at it alone. 
 
If you do, you might need help at it.

"My commissions are taxed at a higher rate"

Not true always. Why is it wrong?

Let's look at an example here.

Selling Sally works hard at her job.

She typically gets half in salary and half in commissions.

She’s hit her quota and is excited for those commissions to kick in.

But when she checks her paycheck, she notices something…

Her commissions were "taxed" at a lower rate than her salary.

At first, this seems great, more money in her bank account!

But then, tax season arrives.

After filing her taxes, her accountant lets her know she owes a massive tax bill!

Now she's frustrated that she has to write a big check and wonders:

Did something go wrong with her return?
Did she get taxed more than expected?
Did she get hit with some penalty?
Nope.

She owes more because her employer withheld less than she actually owed.

And that's the key word here: withheld.

Whenever you have monthly income like a salary, it’s considered “regular,” which gets taxed progressively like usual.

But whenever you have irregular income like:

Awards
Bonuses
Commissions
Equity Compensation
Or anything that doesn’t pay monthly
…it’s considered “supplemental.”

And these irregular forms of income are withheld at different flat rates by default.

For commissions, the default withholding is 22% for the first $1 million and 37% for any amount beyond that (Federal rate for 2025).

This is just withholding, not the actual tax owed.

Since Sally makes $500,000, her actual marginal tax rate is 35%.

But her commissions were only withheld at 22%, which wasn’t enough.

So instead of getting a refund, she ended up owing the difference at tax time.

She didn’t pay more for her commissions.

She just had less withheld than owed.

Big difference!

(Sally is a hypothetical example, but you get the point)

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but just because you can afford the down payment for a home doesn't mean you can afford the mortgage payments. 

☝ Read that again

For the love of g*d, stop using absolutes with your finances:

You don't need to max your 401(k).
But don't leave your match behind.

You don't always need life insurance.
But you should get coverage for your family.

You don't need live on the edge.
But you should know your limits.

You don't need to invest everything.
But you should understand your timeline.

You don't need to open a 529 for your kid.
But you should prepare to support them eventually.

You don't need to have a strict budget.
But you don't have to live a Ramsey life either.

You don't have to pay off all your debt now.
But you don't have to completely avoid it either.

You don’t need to own a home.
But you should have a housing plan.

You don’t need to pick individual stocks.
But you should understand what you own.

You don’t need to retire and quit work all together.
But you should build the option to choose your path.

You don’t need multiple income streams.
But you should protect against a single point of failure.

Read what you want and take advice from whoever. 

But your situation is not black-and-white. 

Stop thinking like it too.

Your child can borrow to pay their tuition costs. 

But you cannot borrow to pay your retirement costs. 

Remember this as you prioritize where your wealth goes.

Friendly Reminder: Robinhood is not meant for you to create a strategic means of creating wealth. 

It's a place to mess around with your "F*** You" money.

Big difference.

Jeff Riseley

Helping Sellers Win The Mental Game - Stress Less, Sell More

Sales is a mental game and too many sellers are losing. 🧠

I help sellers win it.

After training 10,000+ sales professionals and writing the Amazon best selling book Stress Less, Sell More, I’ve learned this: 

High performance doesn’t come from grinding harder, it comes from mastering your mental performance.

But that’s not what most sales cultures teach.

The data speaks volumes:

- 89% of sellers are burned out (Gartner, 2024)
- 70% are struggling with mental health
- 79% of sellers are stressed or highly stressed

And fatigue, stress, and sleep issues are now the norm.

So I built Project Mamba which is a mental performance program and community designed for quota-carrying professionals who want to win without burning out.

It’s where sellers learn how to:
✅ Defeat burnout using a 4-step resilience system
✅ Improve quota attainment with daily mental health habits
✅ Use breathwork, play, and mindset to optimize performance
✅ Build sustainable sales routines that don’t destroy your life

If you’re a sales leader or rep who:
- feels off your game
- struggles to focus or sleep
- senses the edge of burnout approaching...

Then you don’t need another script or tactic.

You need to rebuild your inner game.

Let’s fix the real performance bottleneck: your mindset and mental performance.

💡 Follow me for research-backed insights on sales, burnout, and high performance.
💬 DM me to learn more about Project Mamba.

TESTIMONIALS: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

"If you want to build elite teams and operate at the highest levels individually, there’s nothing more important than understanding how your mind and body work and optimizing your mental performance. Jeff's training is purpose built for the jobs we're in and can take your team from surviving to thriving in a matter of weeks."

Kyle Norton, CRO - Owner.com

"Thanks to Jeff's guidance, I can handle stress better, communicate more effectively with my loved ones, and maintain a positive mindset. I'm grateful for the life-changing experience that has made me a better salesperson and an even better person." 

Miguel Castillo, Client Support Specialist at Ergeon

"Sales Health Alliance provided insights to me and my sales team that helped reps and their leaders better understand how to live with the stress our chosen career is guaranteed to create and how to build resilience to use it as fuel for our success."

Mark Kosoglow, VP Sales at Outreach

Founder

Mental Health = Mental Performance.

It's that simple.

The biggest mistake leaders make today is thinking Mental Health only applies to people who are unwell.

This couldn't be more false.

Mental Health applies to everyone and it is the single most important driver of how salespeople and knowledge workers perform every single day.

When you approach Mental Health from the perspective of high performance, you understand that proper stress-management, mindset, resilience and Mental Health training helps move employees towards a place where they're thriving.

The High Performance Zone.

It also means giving them a toolkit to help navigate the unique stressors they face in their role and outside the workplace in a way that keeps them there.

So remember...

Mental Health = Mental Performance.

This is non-negotiable and if you're not consistently investing into this area as a leader, your team is very likely underperforming.

Period.

Author, Stress Less 🧠 Sell More💸 | Sales Leader @ Jobber | Mental Performance Speaker, Founder, 2X Cancer Survivor

One of the best ways to improve your Mental Health is to change your relationship with anxiety. 

Anxiety is your "Spidey-Sense" (yes - I'm a huge superhero nerd). 

You need to work with it rather than against it. Our body and mind loves "control". When you feel in control of your environment, relationships and abilities your brain thinks: 

"I'm safe and I cannot get hurt." 

This is your comfort zone. Your brain can relax because it has achieved its primary purpose of protecting you from danger. 

The problem is this primary objective conflicts with another extremely important goal we all have which is to live a meaningful life without regrets. 

This requires us to venture out of our comfort zone and seek discomfort. We have to put ourselves in vulnerable positions that make us feel out of control and unsafe. 

Doing this triggers your Spidey-Sense and anxiety goes off like an alarm. 

Most of us respond by avoiding these situations and jumping away from them, but the key to working with your anxiety is jumping towards them. 

We need to treat these as special moments in life as Alarms for Growth instead of Alarms for Danger. 

When they go off, it means your anxiety has found a meaningful experience that will help you learn, grow and expand your comfort zone. 

The more you do this, the more you'll learn to embrace your anxiety as a friend instead of a foe.

Have you ever had trouble sleeping the night before a big meeting?😥 

You’ve spent all week preparing for it, but just as you shut your eyes to go to sleep you think:
​
“I need to get a good sleep tonight or else I won’t perform tomorrow.” 🤔 

And then “it” happens.

Even though you’re well prepared for your meeting and were dead tired a few moments earlier, your mind finds some superhuman reserve of energy and starts to wake up.

This alertness is created by your stress response releasing stress hormones, because it perceives a big threat as your mind starts to spiral:

If I have trouble sleeping…
I’ll forget what to say...
I’ll lose the client...
I’ll be embarrassed...
I’ll let my manager down...
I’ll lose that promotion...
Maybe I’ll lose my job? 😨 

“If I have trouble sleeping tonight, bad things will happen tomorrow.” ⚠ ​

As your mind cycles through these thoughts, they get louder and louder, making it impossible to fall asleep.

This is performance anxiety in its purest form. 😰 

However, this anxiety is less about how you’ll perform in your meeting tomorrow and more about your sleep performance. 

Performance anxiety happens when we put too much pressure on an outcome and in this case, that outcome is falling asleep. 😴 

To prevent this from happening in the future, here is a 6-step step process you can follow when you have trouble sleeping:

1 - Follow a strong bedtime routine.
2 - Label "it" as performance anxiety.
3 - Burn it off with a journaling brain dump.
4 - Acknowledge you can still perform on bad sleep.
5 - Put a plan in place for the next day.
6 - Inhale 4 seconds, exhale 6 seconds (10 rounds)

Obviously there is a lot more nuance that goes into this and I'm sure you have other ways to maximize your sleep.

What are your best practices for falling asleep the night before a busy day you need to be sharp for?

Burnout 😣 is like that sneaky subscription service you forgot you had and is silently chipping away at your bank account every month 📉 

When we're struggling with high stress and burnout...

- Emails that should take 5 minutes, take much longer.
- Motivation you should have, is non-existent.
- People you enjoy working with, grind your gears.
- Goals that should feel achievable, feel impossible.
- Healthy choices are swapped with bad choices.
- We stay up later and wake-up earlier.
- Set backs that should feel manageable, crush us.
- Buyers and deals we should close, we lose.

As our mental performance declines, so do our commission checks 💸 

It's quite literally taking money out of your pocket.

But how much is it taxing your mental performance in sales?

Is this a $2 subscription that is meaningless or a $1,000 subscription that is preventing you from ever achieving Presidents Club 🤔 

Well now you can find out.

Below you'll find a Burnout Calculator that will help you estimate just how big an impact burnout and stress is having on your daily productivity.

No email required - get results instantly.

So - how is your 🧠 doing?

Ready to cancel your burnout subscription?

Open article: Burnout Calculator by saleshealthalliance.com

Are you a Sales Leader who wants to check in on your reps Mental Health more but don't know how?

Using a Mental Health Traffic Light can be an amazing tool. 🚦 

I've outlined what they are and why they work in this article.

https://lnkd.in/exxUSmZE

Open article: The Mental Health Traffic Light In Sales by saleshealthalliance.com

Making smart health choices in sales feels like trying to diet at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Stress, rejection, and long hours push us toward quick dopamine hits like late-night scrolling, junk food and another drink...

While the habits that actually fuel performance get ignored.

That's why I love this quote:

"Life is all about the C between the B and the D." - Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is all about the Choices we make between Birth and Death, which means we can make choices to support and strengthen our Mental Performance each day.

Sounds easy enough right?

Unfortunately when we're experiencing burnout and feeling overwhelmed, it can start to feel a lot like the choices we make at an All You Can Eat buffet.

Making the right choice becomes HARD.

It's hidden behind all of the temptations of fatty foods, high carbs and dessert bar.

Seriously - who ever goes to the salad bar?

Making the right choices in life can feel the same way.

They are hidden behind distractions like social media, technology, drugs, alcohol and sex which make it EASY to escape the uncomfortable emotions we're feeling.

Distractions that feed our most immediate desires but end up hurting our mental performance.

We choose what we WANT - like watching Netflix...

Instead of what we NEED to get in the right state of mind for high performance the next day - like journaling, exercising, calling our Mum or meditating before bed.

So today if you're experiencing burnout...

Ask yourself:

What do you NEED right now, but don't WANT to do?

Do that thing.

It's normally the right choice. 🧠

A lot of posts lately are telling people to "Stop comparing yourself to others online..." which isn't really possible. 👇 

Just like our brains are naturally programmed to focus more on negative experiences than positive ones (i.e. it's better to avoid the charging bear, than pick the fruit)...

Our brain is programmed to compare ourselves to others in order to survive.

This is because, as hunter gatherers, knowing where you fit in the hierarchy of a tribe was important to survival for thousands of years. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 

Feeling like you were stronger and healthier than others in your tribe usually meant safety, while feeling weaker or sicker than others meant danger.

We can't just shut this programming off. 🙅‍♂️ 

In fact, research has shown that 10% of our daily thoughts involve comparison, regardless of whether or not we're on social media, which is why we need to learn how to work with the systems in our body rather than against them.

Here are three best practices that have helped me do this:

1 - Acknowledge "today" is not normal. ⚠ 

Your biology is programmed to use comparison effectively in small groups, communities and tribes.

It can be helpful and even motivating, to compare yourself occasionally to a group of 50-100 people you know.

You're not designed to compare yourself effectively against 1000s of strangers online for several hours a day - which means nothing is wrong with you if you feel crappy and it's okay to take a break.

2 - Put language around the emotions you're feeling. 💞 

Prior to labelling the emotions I was feeling, I'd just feel "stressed" and feel unable to take a break from social media.

Journaling helped me unpack the uncomfortable emotions that were hijacking my mood and proper language helped me make sense of the internal story I was telling myself.

It usually followed this pattern of emotion:

I see something online that makes me feel "inferior"...
As a result I'd feel "threatened"...
And because I felt threatened, I'd start to feel "guilty" for taking time off.

Dismantling "stress" into "inferiority", "threatened" and "guilt", allowed me to explore why I was feeling each emotion individually, rather than let these emotions drive me towards burnout.

3 - Compared myself more. 📈 

Some people enjoy posting content 2-3 times a day, 7 days a week and it's easy to feel like you're never doing enough.

This is the same for those salespeople on your team who might be working 10-12 hours a day.

Comparing yourself to others, allows you to be more consciously aware of the tradeoffs others are making and decide if you want to make them too:

What would you be willing to give up?
Do you want to spend more time at work/online?
Maybe they're getting external help?
Do they have more experience than you?
What is enough for YOU?

The best part of life is you get to set your own goals and set your own pace.

It's not a competition and the more we realize this, the happier we'll be with our own progress and success 🧠

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