Are you treating life as a marathon or a sprint up every mountain and falling down the other side in exhaustion? Burnout does not have to be a cycle. Slowing down and checking my priorities has been like a rocket ship for my career. And it can be for yours too if you follow this advice from Ryan Holiday.

What is standing between you and the life you want? Following the golden trinity takes the guessing out of how to build a meaningful life. It lets you cut needless decision making from your life so you the energy to invest in the decisions that matter.

Are your everyday decisions piling more on to your already hectic workload? If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will. That's why you need an easy-to-follow plan to maximize your focus and master your priorities.

It’s not the strongest or the smartest people who survive and succeed in the long run, but those who can best manage change. The world's most successful change makers have a filter that everything they think, do and put energy into has to go through before they take it on. Here is a plan to survive, succeed and become a change-maker (even if the world around you feels chaotic).

Here's the problem with most time management tips and strategies for entrepreneurs. They end up being more work. Rather than reduce the number of balls you're juggling, they give you a couple more to add to your routine. They promise it's the last tool, template or "foolproof" strategy you'll ever need. I call bullshit and here's why.

Do you believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth fairy? I apologize if I'm the person who is about to crush your soul. They don't exist. Now that your entire childhood is a mess of emotion, I'd like to take this opportunity to karate chop your reality out from underneath you. You can add time management to that list. It's nothing more than society's way of slipping a tooth under your pillow and telling you to go back to sleep and be a good little worker bee.