How to recover from burnout and avoid it

The one place people experience burn out the most is at work. There's nothing you can do to prevent the heavily load of work and intensity of trying to become productive but I have put together a way, more of a guide to manage it so you can keep give a hundred percent on a regular basis and show productivity at work.

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Burnout usually takes you by surprise because most people are in a rat race and are trying to meet deadlines so they can live paycheck to paycheck. Even if you're applying principles of finance, it comes with it's own daily effort. The next thing you know you’ve been running on fumes for weeks or months and it has a very heavy feeling of frustration to it.

To admit that your job has drained all of your energy isn’t defeat. After a prolonged period of increased pressure, your body is going to breakdown, it's eventual or as Thanos would say, inevitable.

You need to sit down and review a list of what it is you do during a typical workday. There will be some items on your list that you can immediately identify that make it hard for you to get through your day. These are the things that you dread doing again and again. This could also be seemingly infinite meetings that bring no value to your business. Sometimes you find that you're ending one project just to start another.

Creating boundaries might look easy to do, but it may be the hardest thing you’ll ever do because of the backlash people will bring your way when you put your foot down.

When you have always been a person that says yes to everything, people around you get used to that and changing it means their world and access is also changing. That's what makes it really hard to start saying no. Without creating these types of boundaries for yourself, others will schedule you 24/7.

You can ztart by not checking your messages during the night and not taking your lunches at your desk. It looks like you're being a hard worker by eating and working at the same time but that just leaves you drained faster.

These things may seem small and insignificant at first but know that they all add up over time.

Pay attention to your body, try as much as you can to get enough rest, eat well and do a little exercise. It doesn't have to be intense deadlifts, a short power walk.

You should create some time in your daily affairs doing things that you enjoy and find fun. For me I just watch a couple of comedy skits and cut scenes from my favorite shows on YouTube. But I put a timer on it so it doesn't eat into my work hours.

Surround yourself with people who lift you up and not drag you down. Allow yourself to have some time to just relax and not feel guilty about it. Don't let anyone talk you into feeling guilty about rest, this people finish making those ridiculous motivational videos about working 25 hours a day and they earn from the video and go and rest while you follow that advice blindly and suffer the consequences.

Don't try to be productive all of the time, it's the fastest route to burnout.

Recovery is a long process. It's frustratingly long. You'll not feel better in a day, and there will still be days that you still feel the effects of being burnt out.