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

People with high-achieving mindsets might have grown up in households that valued performance and ambition as indicators of worthiness of love and connection.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Being the way we are has gotten us this far, but it is not going to work if we wish to go further.