When feelings of burnout start to occur, many people focus on short-term solutions such as taking a vacation. While this can certainly help, the relief is often only temporary. You also need to focus on strategies that will have a deeper impact, and create lasting change.
Let's look at specific strategies that you can use to avoid burnout:
1. Work With Purpose
Do you feel that your career has a deeper purpose, other than just earning a paycheck? Most of the time, rediscovering your purpose
can go a long way towards helping you avoid burnout and keeping stress at bay.
Look at the deeper impact of what you do every day; how does your work make life better for other people? How could you add more meaning to what you do every day?
These are important questions, so spend time thinking deeply on them. You could also use the PERMA Model
to bring more meaning and happiness to your life.
If you think that you're in the wrong role or career, develop a career strategy
to help you plan for a career that's better for you. Or, use job craftingto shape your role, so that it fits you better.
2. Perform a Job Analysis
When you experience work overload day in and day out, you can start to feel as if you're on a treadmill and that you'll never catch up. This is demoralizing, stressful, and often leads to burnout.
Perform a job analysis
so you can clarify what's expected of you, and what isn't. This tool will help you identify what's truly important in your role, so that you can cut out or delegatetasks that aren't as essential.
If you feel that your boss is assigning more work than you can handle, then schedule a private meeting to discuss the issue. Let him or her know that your excessive workload is leading to burnout. Come prepared with some options that could be considered for shifting certain tasks or projects to someone else.
You can also make life easier by learning how to manage conflicting priorities
and deal with unreasonable demands.
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