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

The more you believe that life is an experience and not a performance, the less stress and disappointment you’ll feel.

We need to feel engaged in what we’re doing, or we risk switching to autopilot as a means of enduring the repetitiveness of our lives.

But you likely also show some signs that are less clinical and more personal. What do you know you do when you’re feeling fried? Perhaps your go-to self-soothing tool when things get rough is rewatching a comfort show, snacking on your favorite junk food, ignoring people’s texts and calls, amping up your online shopping or food ordering, staying up

Burnout by volume applies to people with much more to do than they can possibly get done.

A self-victimizing mindset is a combination of feeling helplessness for an extended time and being skeptical about finding long-term satisfaction.

If you were simply experiencing your life for yourself instead of performing it for other people, what would you do more of

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.

Prioritizing achievement is likely your default. If you want to prioritize something else like peace or freedom, you need to fully commit to it even when (not if, when) it looks and feels different or uncomfortable.

Burnout by boredom besets people who feel uninspired by and disengaged from their life for an extended period.