Burnout is a kind of exhaustion that seeps into every aspect of your life. Even though I travel around the country teaching teachers, business people, and more about how to overcome burnout, I can tell you that I, too, have been experiencing it lately. For me, burnout looks like:
- The inability to shut work off, even when I should be enjoying time off
- An incessant need to keep checking my emails
- The feeling of obsessively thinking about “everything that needs to get done”
- Tiredness, irritability, and frustration with people around me
I recently asked others in my Facebook Group what burnout out looks like to them and got these responses:
- Knots in my stomach the closer I get to work, despite LOVING my job.
- Never having satisfaction with my job and never feeling like I’m doing enough.
- Letting down all of the teachers I’m supposed to be leading, and I feel hopeless.
- Dreading going to work every day and counting the days until break.
- Never feeling like I’m meeting expectations.
- Being so overwhelmed with tasks and asks that I don’t even know where to start.
- Lost desire, unable to focus on anything, and no amount of time off or other activities.
- Investing in my own business so I can leave my current profession.
- Overworked (worked daily my entire sick leave), underpaid (completely revamped teaching during COVID/no overtime, no bonuses), and not thought of as a real person.
You are allowed to have heavy emotions. It’s important to give ourselves the grace to feel the way we do and practice some self-compassion.
Even though I sometimes enter the burnout stage, I recognize the signs of when it’s coming on, and I have a set of habits that get me out of the gutter quicker. You are not alone in the struggle. I am there too.
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- How to identify burnout when it’s first sets in.
- Why it’s so hard to get off the hamster wheel of life.
- Why I created a program focused on shifting the inner blueprint of our life.
- How to leverage your mindset and overcome limiting beliefs.
- Why our relationship with ourselves is our biggest asset.
- How to take action to become who you want to be.
- How to step forward with confidence and discover your greatness..
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