Workaholism 101

Overemployment is more than just a style of work. It’s an ideology of individualism and self-reliance held by many who feel that corporations have turned their backs on workers.

THE COST OF THIS SEQUENCE

Let’s quantify what it’s stolen from you:

• Creative legacies buried in folders labeled “unfinished”


• Intimate connections lost to self-protection and overfunctioning


• Opportunities missed because you downplayed your readiness


• Loyalty to exhaustion over liberation


• Delayed self-recognition — you keep outsourcing your worth to o

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In short, I was mentally, emotionally, and physically burnout. But it took me a long time to figure it out because I wasn’t listless or unproductive or disengaged from my work. The problem was: All I was engaged with was my work. And that was causing me to work in a way that was utterly unsustainable.