Here are five bad habits that could be barreling you toward burnout and what you can do to turn your situation around and what to do to help restore your health and well-being in the process of restoring your burnout.1. Bad Habits that could lead to burnout
Saying yes in every circumstance
Get clear on how much you can actually handle
- Decide on your priorities and place them in open times in your calendar
- If you can’t find time on your calendar to do what you need to do, you’ll need to start dropping or reducing certain responsibilities until everything can fit
Doing everything yourself
Asking others for support saves time and increases productivity, leading to a positive emotional state that can elevate you out of the cynicism associated with burnout.
- You don’t have to do everything by yourself. Ask others to help you out.
Skipping out on fun
When you skip out on what you find really fun, you end up taking breaks anyway but on activities that aren’t nearly as refreshing
- Fun isn’t the thing that you do once you get 100% done with work-which is unlikely to happen because it keeps coming. Fun is what you do that helps fuel you to have the energy to get all the work done
Working right until to bedtime
Set a cut-off point for when you get off of your computer
- Give yourself enough time between when you stop working and when you lay down in bed to allow your mind to calm and unwind
- Transitioning earlier helps you fall asleep faster, have better sleep quality, and improve your attentiveness the next day
Taking no days off
If you’re feeling a constant grind, take at least one day a week where you don’t allow yourself to work at all: no meetings, no project work, no email checking, no messaging, no nothing related to your job.
- Although technically you’ll get less work done that day, over the course of a week, you can actually get more done because you’re not so fried.
