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5 Ways to Avoid Burnout Don't want your business to wreak havoc on your health and well-being? By planning ahead and working smarter, you can avoid short-circuiting.

By Michelle Goodman

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Don't want your business to wreak havoc on your health and well-being? By planning ahead and working smarter, you can avoid short-circuiting.

1. Weigh the payoff of every task. Make sure each hour you work aligns with your business goals, says time-management expert Laura Vanderkam. Finishing that new customer proposal trumps achieving inbox zero.

2. Learn to delegate. If you're not using trusted interns, contractors and employees to lighten your load, start. As Lifeables CEO Karen Macumber puts it, "You can't control everything."

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