Dear Reader,

I hear this from clients all the time, and when I do, I feel like somehow, many of us absorbed this unspoken rule:

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If you’re doing well, you don’t really get to be exhausted. If you’re tired, you must be ungrateful. Or dramatic. Or doing something wrong.

So instead, we normalize pushing through. Functioning beautifully. Holding it all together.

Burnout - but make it high-functioning!

What if exhaustion isn’t a personal failure? What if it’s actually useful information?

When leaders I work with feel this way, we don’t jump straight to fixing everything. We look for small shifts that create a little breathing room.

Here are three that often help:

1️⃣ Delegate one thing you’re still holding out of habit.​
If someone else can do it at 70–80% of how you would, that might be enough.

2️⃣ Set one quiet boundary.​
Not a grand announcement. Just something simple like, “This can wait until tomorrow,” or “I don’t need to be in that meeting.”

3️⃣ Stop making exhaustion mean something about you.​
It’s data about the system, the pace, or the expectations, not your capability.

You don’t need to push harder. You might just need to listen more closely.

A question to reflect on: Which of the three shifts above would help the most right now? (If there's one I'm missing that would be helpful to you, reply to this email and let me know!)

With ease, Tracy

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