Step 1
Check-in on your week: workload, stress spikes, wins, and any “I can’t do this forever” moments.
Work Performance & Purpose
Do meaningful work without burning out or losing yourself.
You can have a good job on paper and still feel drained, stuck, or misaligned. Work performance isn’t just about productivity—it’s about how you show up, what you tolerate, and whether any of it actually feels worth it. When you’re pushing hard in a role that no longer fits (or you’re unsure what you want next), your nervous system, sleep, and health eventually get the bill. Brandon helps you improve work performance and clarify purpose in a way that respects your body, your values, and the reality of your life—not just your job description.
What this really feels like
Trouble with work performance and purpose doesn’t always look like hating your job. Often, it feels like a slow disconnect between who you are and what you do all day.
On the outside
- You’re good at what you do, but you feel flat, bored, or resentful more often than excited.
- Your workdays are packed, but you still end them wondering what you actually accomplished.
- You’re productive for bursts, then crash into scrolling, avoidance, or busywork.
- You feel like you’re constantly “on” for other people—clients, teammates, leadership, family—with little left for yourself.
- You’ve outgrown your role, but the next step looks fuzzy or risky.
On the inside
- You keep asking, “Is this it?” while also feeling guilty for not being more grateful.
- You worry that changing jobs or careers might wreck your stability—but staying feels like slowly shrinking.
- You might call it burnout, misalignment, being stuck, or “losing your spark.” Whatever the name, it’s draining to spend so much of your life in work that doesn’t feel like a good fit for your nervous system or your values.
- You’re not ungrateful or broken for feeling this. Your system is noticing a mismatch between what you’re built for and what you’re asking yourself to do every day.
Why quick fixes have not worked
Most work performance and purpose advice lives at two unhelpful extremes. If you only slap a new productivity system or inspirational quote on top of chronic stress and misalignment, you end up feeling like you failed at boundaries or don’t have what it takes—instead of recognizing that your work and body are asking for something deeper. Brandon’s work is about aligning how you work and why you work with what your system can sustainably support.
What’s really going on:
- Your nervous system may already be in chronic stress mode from workload, pressure, or constant change.
- Your identity may be tied deeply to achievement, people-pleasing, or always being the reliable one.
- Your environment—team culture, leadership, industry—might reward overwork and penalize rest or honesty.
- Your values may have shifted since you chose this path, but your life is still organized around the old version of you.
- You might not have the privilege to just walk away without a plan.
How Brandon works with work performance & purpose
Instead of pushing you to grind harder or blow everything up overnight, Brandon uses a structured, nervous-system–aware process.
4-step process
1
Clarify your current work reality
Map what your work actually looks and feels like: responsibilities, demands, politics, schedule, energy peaks and crashes, and where you feel most drained or alive. You’ll explore how work is impacting your sleep, mood, body, and relationships—not just your calendar.
2
Spot misalignment & pressure points
Identify where performance and purpose are out of sync: tasks you’re great at but hate, values your role violates, work that leaves you energized versus work that leaves you empty, and the beliefs that keep you stuck (“I can’t disappoint people,” “This is the best I’ll ever get,” “I’m too far in to change”).
3
Experiment with how you work now
Before you decide whether to stay or go, you’ll run small experiments inside your current reality: changing how you structure your day, when you do deep work, how you communicate needs, where you set small boundaries, and how you recover from hard days. This builds capacity and clarity—so any decision you make isn’t coming from pure burnout.
4
Design a more aligned path
Once your nervous system has some breathing room and you see your patterns more clearly, you’ll work on bigger questions: what kind of work feels meaningful to you, what constraints you need (income, location, flexibility), and what realistic next steps look like. That might mean reshaping your current role, shifting teams, or planning a gradual transition—anchored in a body and brain that can handle change.
What progress can look like
Work performance and purpose don’t usually change in a single leap. They shift as your system gets safer and your choices get more aligned. Clients working on this area with Brandon often notice:
More days where they end work feeling “appropriately tired” instead of wrecked.
Clearer separation between their worth and their output.
Better focus and performance during work blocks—and more genuine off-time outside of them.
Greater honesty about what they want, what they’re done tolerating, and what they’re afraid of.
A grounded plan for what’s next—promotion, pivot, or exit—rather than vague fantasies or dread.
A sense that work is part of a meaningful life, not the only way they prove they deserve one.
Next best step
If burnout at work is part of why you’re here, the Dec 19, 2025 Burnout Triggers Workshop at 10am PT is a focused way to see how your workload, expectations, and boundaries are affecting your system.
Learn about the Dec 19 WorkshopWhat to expect in a session
Sessions are designed to be a place where you can tell the truth about work without having to protect anyone else’s feelings. You don’t need a polished career plan or a crisis to start. You can show up with “this is kind of working and kind of breaking me” and go from there.
Format1:1 coaching via secure video (or in-person when available).
LengthApproximately 50 minutes for a standard session.
Shape of a typical session:
Step 2
Review of experiments you tried—schedule changes, boundaries, conversations, recovery practices.
Step 3
Exploration of how your body responded: tension, relief, energy, sleep, mood.
Step 4
Clarifying one to three specific steps or experiments to run before the next session—performance-focused, recovery-focused, or clarity-focused.
About Your Coach
Meet Brandon Day
Brandon Day is a Pain and Performance Coach who works with people whose work demands a lot from them—founders, professionals, leaders, and high-responsibility humans. He looks at performance and purpose through the lens of the nervous system, stress, and real-life constraints, helping you stay ambitious and intact.
Focus Areas
Work performance and purpose, burnout and exhaustion, confidence and self-belief, nervous-system regulation, pain and performance, sustainable high performance.
How He Works
1:1 remote sessions, clear experiments instead of generic advice, attention to both body and career decisions, planning that respects your constraints, coordination with therapists or other providers when helpful.
What Clients Say
“I thought my choices were either grind it out or burn it all down. With Brandon, we stabilized my system first, then made changes. I’m performing better, sleeping better, and have a real plan for what’s next instead of just fantasizing about quitting.”
Common Questions
Common Questions
Is this career coaching, performance coaching, or something else?
A bit of each. Brandon’s work sits at the intersection of performance, nervous-system health, and meaningful work. You might work on focus, energy, boundaries, communication, and decision-making about your career path—all with an eye toward what your body and brain can sustainably support. He’s not a recruiter or resume writer, but he can help you make choices and take actions that actually align with your goals.
Do I need to be in a specific kind of role (founder, executive, etc.)?
No. Many clients are founders, leaders, or high-responsibility professionals, but others are mid-career, early-career, or in non-traditional paths. If work performance, alignment, or purpose are major stress points in your life—and you’re open to looking at them through a body-and-nervous-system lens—this work is relevant.
Will you tell me whether I should quit my job or change careers?
No. That decision is yours. Brandon’s role is to help you understand your nervous system, values, constraints, and options clearly, and to support you in experimenting your way toward an answer that feels grounded—not impulsive or purely fear-based. Sometimes that means staying and reshaping. Sometimes it means leaving. Often, it’s a sequence of smaller steps.
What if my work struggles are tied to anxiety, depression, or trauma?
That’s common. Brandon’s coaching is trauma-aware and nervous-system–informed, but it is not therapy or a replacement for mental health treatment. If anxiety, depression, or trauma are major factors, coaching can often complement therapy: therapy works more deeply on story and healing, while coaching helps you apply nervous-system and performance tools in your day-to-day work life. If something is outside the scope of coaching, he’ll say so.
Can this help if I’m already successful on paper?
Yes—and often that’s exactly when people seek this out. You can be succeeding by external metrics and still feel misaligned, exhausted, or unsure why it doesn’t feel as good as you thought it would. Brandon works with plenty of people who don’t need help becoming more successful so much as becoming more themselves while they do meaningful work.
How many sessions will I need?
It depends on what you want to shift: performance rhythms, burnout recovery, confidence at work, or a bigger pivot decision. Some clients get what they need in three to six focused sessions. Others work with Brandon across a 100-day sprint or longer as they redesign how they work and what they’re working toward. You’ll discuss a realistic timeframe after your first session.
Are sessions remote or in-person?
Sessions are primarily held online via secure video, which makes it easy to join from your office, home, or wherever you’re actually living your work life. If you’re local and interested in in-person work, you can mention that in your intake form and Brandon will let you know what’s available.
You don’t have to choose between high performance and a life that feels like yours.
Work will likely always demand effort—sometimes a lot of it. But it shouldn’t cost you your health, relationships, or sense of self. You’re allowed to want both strong performance and real purpose.
You don’t have to keep white-knuckling your way through misaligned weeks or fantasizing about escape without a plan. If you’re ready to bring your nervous system, work performance, and deeper purpose into the same conversation, Brandon is here to help.