The Burnout Guardrails

Set hard limits: maximum 4 active projects, no work after 7pm, one completely free day each week. Log what each client paid, the hours it took, and what you learned — after ten engagements you own pricing data and niche signals no course can sell you.

Guardrails protect your week; systems decide whether scale is repeatable. Before you add another offer, client, or contractor, inspect the machinery behind the work: what repeats, what breaks, and what still depends too much on you.