Burn out is something that can happen to someone at any point in life. There are many signs to burn out, but some common ones include insomnia, crankiness, over reacting to situations, lethargic, not caring about what you used to especially in regards to work or tasks, anger, weight gain or loss and negativity.
It is vital steps be done to overcome burn out before it causes major impact to your life’s goals and directions.
Several suggestions will be offered to help offset burn out. If possible, take a vacation. For those that it is impossible to do, or at least when you need to, let’s look at some alternatives.
Wipe your calender as clear as possible for a while. Don’t do or go anywhere that is not totally necessary. Realize others may not always agree with your definition of necessary.
On the physical level, take extra good care of your body. Eat organic healthy foods, get exercise especially some fresh air, take vitamins and get some extra rest.
When ready find some time to pinpoint the tasks and situations that seem to really overwhelm and drain you. Once you identify those, see if those can be delegated to others, hire help for that or find other ways to compensate for those taxing duties. Also find what refreshes you and increase those activities.
Share with someone you trust who’s uplifting and caring. Perhaps they can offer insights and suggestions you can’t see. It might need to be a life coach or counselor or some type. Sometimes we are so close to the situation we can’t see options others can plainly see.
Give these suggestions some time to see how they are working for you. If you’re better, then maintain that better life balance. If it’s the same or worse, it may be a time to really look at the goals you have set and where you want to go. Sometimes past goals no longer are a good fit and we need the freedom to change our goals. But do it from a position of strength and not just desperation to change, just for the purpose of something being different.
Sometimes burn out is a great reality check that our lives are out of balance. There’s also seasons in our lives and it could be we are sensing a change from an old season to a new season, but we’re in the in between stage currently. It could be in time one of those “hidden blessings” that when you look back you realize, this was an important turning point to the direction of life.
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