The Cure For Burnout: Build Better Habits, Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life
Emily Ballesterosamazon.com
The Cure For Burnout: Build Better Habits, Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life
Those with a high-achieving mindset generally believe that their worth is dependent on their accomplishments. They tend to feel most valuable when they are performing well and are on track to achieving traditional success (praise, money, an impressive job title, a big house, social status, power, influence).
By contrast, negative challenge is doing things outside of our comfort zone that make us unjustly uncomfortable and don’t align with anything we’re hoping to move toward. Where positive challenge offers value, negative challenge drains us.
Being the way we are has gotten us this far, but it is not going to work if we wish to go further.
Burnout by boredom besets people who feel uninspired by and disengaged from their life for an extended period.
It is easier to try to control strategies that feel more tangible, like time management or personal care. Unfortunately, your practices around personal care are meaningless if your inner voice is sabotaging any good they are doing. Your mindset has the power to compromise any external efforts you might make, which is why it is paramount to correct
... See moreYour mindset is the lens through which you see the world. If that lens causes you to judge yourself, live in fear of what others think, ruminate on stressors constantly, hold yourself to unattainable standards, or never be content, you will be more likely to burn out, and to burn out more often.
If you’ve had a people-pleasing mentality all your life, your first step is to start asking yourself, What do I really think? How do I really feel? What would I like the outcome of this situation to be? Start speaking up for your needs.
A calm, reasonable response results in the exact same outcome as a punishing one—fixing the mistake—but it does so without the fire hose of criticism and stress.
Mindset can be described as many things—thoughts, attitude, learned responses—but when it comes to burnout management, your mindset is how you manage your internal experience.