The Cure For Burnout: Build Better Habits, Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life

The most beneficial pillars of burnout management for those suffering from burnout by boredom are mindset, personal care (which you’ll learn also includes lifestyle design to help set goals and create momentum), and time management.

The three mindsets that most commonly lead to burnout are a high-achieving mindset, a people-pleasing mindset, and a self-victimizing mindset.

What conditions tend to trigger burnout? Certain seasons of work? Certain types of projects or deadlines? When you spend excess time with certain stressful people?

Burnout by volume is the result of having too many items on the docket for an extended time. It is, as Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism, would say, “doing more today than you can recover from tomorrow” over, and over, and over again.

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).

When we see high achievers in action we assume they have everything. In reality, they often have one thing. If the cost of achievement is everything else in your life, then the cost is too high.

Listening to our thoughts and acknowledging when we might be erroneously projecting helplessness is the first step toward correcting this behavior.

Burnout by boredom is this experience of being mentally checked out, disengaged, and uninspired for an extended period of time.

When someone makes a suggestion, is my instinct to poke holes in the solution rather than embrace it?