5 Ways to Combat Burnout
(I came to a realization about stress recently. A lot of the stress in my life, is stress that I have created upon myself. I have a lot of activities in my own life. I have a full-time job, I run this website (and a few others), I volunteer for a few hours each week, I am a member of two social clubs, plus I have all the responsibilities of a marriage and maintaining a liveable and attractive home. Recently, I felt "stuck", and I realized it's because I have too much to do! One way to alleviate your stress? Get rid of some of your outside activities! Here are some other ideas in this article. Read on!)
5 Ways to Combat Burnout
Krista Regedanz
Job burnout happens when the stress or prolonged frustration of a job or career contributes to emotional and physical exhaustion. The ability to cope with general life stressors is strained. This combination results in a lack of motivation, fatigue, irritability, and sometimes depression. Job burnout presents a significant challenge for everyone supporting the burned out individual.The challenge of burnout can be especially taxing for creative, goal-oriented people. When these people blame themselves for their situation, the feeling of exhaustion only gets worse.
They feel helpless. Their efforts get them nowhere. The cycle of working harder, seeing little or no results and getting increasingly stressed out is extremely disparaging.As a career coach specializing in helping people through this exhausting cycle, I've found tools that combat burnout. If you suffer from burnout, applying these tools will help you increase your energy and take your life back from your draining job. 1.
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Create an emergency escape routeAn emergency escape route takes some of the paralyzing stress off you. You facilitate the planning for your next step. Some first steps in creating your escape route can be finding ways to create a money reserve and in preparing a current resume.2. Design support environmentsEnvironments are the circumstances, objects, or conditions surrounding you. An environment can be your eNetwork (email, web, electronic community) or your vocabulary.
You can increase your creativity and inspiration by setting up supportive environments that constantly trigger inspiration. If your morning drive to the office finds you discouraged by listening to negative morning news, consider creating a new environment by listening to your favorite music or to inspirational talks. 3.Eliminate drainsA drain is anything that wastes your time, drains your energy, and has some negativity around it. It could be circumstances, habits, things or people. Drains have an opportunity cost.
When you focus on a drain, you don't have time to create, respond to opportunities (or even notice them), or do what you really want. You miss out on other opportunities which might be more fun, lucrative, creative or significant. 4. Uncover your job valuesYour values are the behavior and activities to which you are naturally drawn. When engaged in these activities, you feel most like yourself: connected, excited, glowing.
Your life has a feeling of effortlessness. Most of us lead lives which do not grant us the chance to feel this way. If you take the time to identify your values, you will be more aware of why there are conflicts between you and your job and be more able to identify the needs you have sacrificed. 5. Define success for yourselfUntil you take the time to define success for yourself, it will be defined by others (your boss, your parents, your partner), your culture, the past, or advertising.
One way to define success for yourself is to complete the sentence, "I know I am being successful by . . ..
Krista Regedanz specializes in working with professionals who struggle with the drain of job and career burnout. She coaches, writes and speaks about the challenges of getting unstuck from meaningless work and reorienting around inspiration, growth, and evolution. For more information, contact Krista by email at Krista@ExperienceEvolution.com, or visit her website at www.ExperienceEvolution.com.
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