You're not burned out from too much work. You're burned out from the wrong rhythm.

A 5-minute diagnostic for owner/CEOs and senior executives.


5 minutes. Free. Results emailed to you.



"When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it, and want to get on to other things."
— Robert Pirsig

Think about your last six months at home.

The calendar is full. The energy is not.

You ran a board meeting last Tuesday that went well. By Thursday you cannot remember a thing that was said.

You make 40 decisions before lunch. By 7 pm you are spent. Your spouse and your kids get the version of you with nothing left.

You missed something at home this month that you said you would not miss. A recital. A dinner. A conversation your wife wanted to have. You told yourself it was the season. You have been telling yourself it was the season for three years.

The productivity stack did not fix it. The books did not fix it. The journal did not fix it. The last coach did not fix it.

You are not burned out from too much work. You are burned out from the wrong rhythms.

The four rhythms you are running, whether you know it or not.

The assessment scores each one, surfaces your strongest and your weakest, and gives you the order of operations.

Rhythm What it measures What it looks like when it is off
R Relational The quality of the connections you carry into work and into the house. Spouse, kids, team, peers, mentors. You are physically at dinner. You are not at dinner. Your team brings you the safe questions and saves the real ones for each other.
E Emotional Your ability to name what you are feeling, hold it without spilling it on the team, and lead from a clear center. Your mood from the last hard call goes home with you. Your wife knows what kind of day you had before you say a word.
S Spiritual The deeper frame underneath the work. Sabbath. Purpose. The thing the work is actually for. You have not stopped for a day in three months. When you do stop, you do not know what to do with yourself.
T Tangible Your body, your money, your time, your environment. The container the other three rhythms have to live inside. The fitness slipped. The sleep slipped. The schedule owns you. You keep promising the rest of you that this is temporary.
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In 5 minutes, you'll know:

  • 1
    Which of your four rhythms is most out of sync

    So you stop optimizing the calendar and start fixing the actual leak, and get back the 8 to 12 hours a week you are losing right now.

  • 2
    Why your current pace is unsustainable

    And the specific shift that changes it, so you can lead the company at full strength without coming home empty.

  • 3
    Your single highest-leverage move this week

    So you walk away with one thing to actually do, not another framework to put on the shelf.

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Four clients. Four rhythms. Four different doors. Same shift.

Tangible was the broken one

Within months I went from 12 to 15-hour days, 7 days a week, to 2 to 4 hours a day, 6 days a week, with the same results.

Brandon

CEO Thrive Academics, business owner

Relational was the broken one

I implemented a day of rest. I went from working 5 nights a week to 2. I watched a movie on the couch with my kids without opening my laptop for the first time in months.

Valeria

CEO Friendsheep®

Emotional was the broken one

I went from overwhelmed and reactive to clear and decisive. I know what I am supposed to focus on now, and I am not pulled in 19 directions before lunch.

Phil

Executive Director, Singing Hills

Relational at the team level was the broken one

My team used to brace when I walked in. Now they bring me the real problems first. Nothing about my role changed. Everything about how I lead changed.

Cliff

CTO, Intrasystems

None of these leaders needed to work less. They needed to find out which rhythm was off, then build from there. That is what this assessment does.

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What you get when you finish.

A 4-page personalized report sent to your inbox the moment you submit. Inside:

  • Your overall rhythm score and a radar chart showing how the four rhythms compare for you right now
  • Your strongest rhythm (the one to lean on) and your weakest (the one to fix first)
  • Three pages on the rhythm that is most out of sync for you, with the specific shift that restores it
  • One move to make this week. Not next quarter. This week.

You have been telling yourself you will deal with it after the next quarter, the next launch, the next hire. You will not. This is the 5 minutes that names what to fix first, so the rest of this year does not look like the last one.

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