Are You Feeling Burned Out?

According to the official definition of the term, “burnout,” it is defined as being in a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands.

We know that many people experience burnout at some point in their lives or careers. 

Perhaps you are feeling it right now.

But there are ways to avoid feeling burnout or experiencing it.

Listen in as we go through what burnout is, how you can identify when you may be suffering from burnout and how to avoid it.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of MOJO: The Meaning of Life & Business. On today’s program.

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We’re going to be talking about burnout and how to avoid getting stuck and dealing with all sorts of issues that tend to come as a result of burnout for those of you that have been living through the last several years, paying attention to the

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“great resignation” that has happened with the employees situation, and people trying to find work-life, balances, or really work life integration in terms of figuring out, How do they want to proceed?

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How do they want to be doing their job? How do you, as an entrepreneur, want to be doing what you are doing?

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Burnout affects all of us in different ways. The great resignation had a lot of it coming as a result of burnout, a lot of issues were coming directly because we were dealing with burnout.

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We were dealing with people that were no longer wanting to be commuting, no longer wanting to be spending endless hours in meetings, no longer spending time doing things that they simply didn’t want to be doing when we look

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at what it is that we are dealing with in our lives and in our businesses.

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Burnout is a real issue that we need to be figuring out.

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What is it that we do to avoid having that sense of burnout having that sense of losing interest, of just giving up and not wanting to continue always going to be times that we are going to lose interest? in what it is that we do what you need to do though

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is you need to be looking at. How do you avoid burnout?

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And what are some of the ways that you can find enjoyment Find opportunity, find new ways to be looking at what it is that you are doing to be in a position to avoid burnout and losing interest here’s a couple of really quick

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tips, though, that you can start looking at that really can offer you more opportunities and more ways to avoid burnout.

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The first thing is going to be when you start realizing that there is burnout, or even before you get to that point, to try and avoid getting to that point, taking some time away from what you do on a regular basis, if you have one day a

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week, where you can unplug you’re going to start feeling better even if you can’t dedicate an entire day to being completely unplugged, try one morning where you just come unplug you’re not in the

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office You’re not on your computer you’re not on any device.

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You are completely unplugged from the rest of the world You’re going to be in that position where you can find ways.

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You cannot be dealing with that burnout. Another option is: Maintain a gratitude journal.

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When you are in a position of feeling grateful, your brain is not in a position to have any negative emotion, and so that burnout is a negative emotion.

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You are in a position where you can start avoiding having those problems.

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When you can see exactly what you’re doing the better you are ultimately going to be when you’re trying to figure out Well, what do I do?

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How do I do? and figuring out ways that you can avoid that burnout and loss of interest, Feeling another idea that you want to be looking at is volunteering again.

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It goes in line with that gratitude idea when you’re giving back when you are giving of yourself to others.

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It’s another way that your brain is finding new ways to have an outlet that’s helping you avoid that burnout.

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Now, don’t be dealing exactly what you do every day just as a volunteer basis.

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What you want to be doing is finding new ways that you can get involved and donate time.

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Donate effort, volunteer, go out to the parks, help clean up in the park.

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An underserved community mentor. use whatever it is that you are in a position to do.

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The more that you can find new opportunities new ways to avoid Burnout. Burnout is real.

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We’ve seen it so many times. and a great resignation is further proof that millions of people around the globe are dealing with burnout on a regular basis.

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We’ve seen people that have climbed to the pinnacle of their industry, and they ultimately burn out because there’s only so many hours that they can do what they’re doing before they’re simply going to lose all

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interests and anything else dealing with that industry. we’ve seen attorneys that have become amazing attorneys only to crash because they simply can’t do it anymore.

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We’ve seen people that have continued to grow in medicine and teaching in any field, but eventually they lose interest because they just can’t do it anymore.

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So the more that you can find ways where you can avoid that burnout feeling the better is ultimately going to be for you, and learning what you can do to make a difference is the first step in avoiding that burnout if you do

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suffer from burnout. Those other tips are certainly going to be ways that you can start losing someone out.

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Some of that feeling. but you really need to step away you’re not taking a vacation.

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Think what you can do, and you don’t have to get on a plane and fly somewhere, even as they say a vacation.

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If you separate yourself for a day or 2, you can immediately start reducing that feeling of burnout.

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If you’re a small business, owner your business relies on you to be there every day, if you can find somebody in your shop that can sit there for 6 h, even see if you can find a way where you can learn a new skill, you can do

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something different. The more that you can do that’s going to change your environment that is going to change the way that you have your outlook the way that you see things is going to dramatically improve that burnout situation and so when you

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really start looking at What is it that you’re doing in terms of where you go, what you’re doing Where do you want to go?

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These are all burnout ideas that you want to be checking out.

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So you can get away from that feeling of burnout, and back to a feeling of being reinvigorated. Being in a position where you now can start saying is what I want to be doing.

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This is where I want to go. The more that you have exactly where you want to be from.

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There the better off you’re going to be in the long run. On that note, this has been another episode of “MOJO: The Meaning of Life & Business” and here’s to YOUR Success.