28. Burnout and the Illusion of Success

EPISODE SUMMARY

Burnout is not caused by working too hard, it's caused by working out of alignment with your values.

EPISODE NOTES

Burnout is an amalgamation of detachment, chronic fatigue, misalignment, and loss of interest.

Burnout goes beyond work stress and can severely impact your personal life. Here are some common burnout symptoms that you may notice: detachment, loss of interest in work, loss of communicating with others, loss of interest in things you previously enjoyed, becoming irritable with others, lack of intimacy, and finding it hard to do simple tasks that previously felt easy.

Burnout has been recognized as a health phenomenon by the World Health Organization (WHO); according to WHO, the following are signs of burnout:

• feeling depleted of energy
• being exhausted
• increased mental distance from job/career
• reduced professional productivity

Burnout however, has nothing to do with being overworked; burnout is reaching a point of full exhaustion after forcing yourself to do work that is not aligned with you and what you value.

Learning better time management skills, increasing productivity, or changing jobs will NOT cure burnout - in fact, you will not be able to produce results or make those changes from a place of total burnout. The only way to cure burnout is to rediscover who you are, redesign what you want your success to look like, and realign with that vision through a tangible action plan.

Learn more about curing burnout in this episode.

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