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Dealing w/ Burnout
KSuberalles | Mar 7 2006
I work in the non-profit world, doing a job that used to be exciting, rewarding, and infinitely more satisfying then being a slave to the corporate world. But it seems that over the last year I have been fighting some feelings that I think are burnout. I use GTD, I have my lists, I am organized. I know exactly what needs to be done, Its just getting harder and harder to execute. I have a major promotion to Executive Director level coming in a few months and I want to use my time before it happens to get it all together and find that spark again that I had a couple years ago. Does anyone have any resources/advice? Books ideas? Life hacks? etc? Thanks! 3 Comments
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 I don't know if I've...Submitted by emuelle1 on March 8, 2006 - 10:35am.
I don't know if I've ever had large scale burnout, but we all get burned out from time to time. I think I went through that last week. I just finished a very intense 5 week class that resulted in staying up late pretty much every Friday and Saturday to get papers turned in, then last Monday and Tuesday I was incredibly sick. Though sick, I still had to help my wife with the kids, who had what I had. When I got back to work on Wednesday, I don't think I was completely over what I had. The rest of the week I just couldn't get into anything. I decided to just ride it out and take a break. I had a light week at work, and I'm allowed to set my own priorities anyway, so I just kept it low. I took some time over the weekend to relax, and I picked back up on Monday. Sometimes you just have to put everything down and step back as much as you can to deal with burnout. You obviously can't drop everything, especially family responsibilities, but some non-important urgencies can wait a day or two to make room to deal with burnout. » POSTED IN:
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