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Recovering from burnout can take a significant amount of time and effort. It’s not something that can be resolved quickly or easily. The length of time it takes to recover from burnout can vary widely depending on the individual and the severity of the burnout. Some people may be able to recover in a matter of weeks or months, while others may take longer.
Many people face burnout throughout their careers. Over the last 25+ years, I’ve burned out, overcame burnout, and prevented burnout from happening when I recognized the signs. This is such an important topic that I wrote a book about burnout recovery, which I will release soon.
According to a Deloitte survey, 77% of Americans have experienced burnout at their current jobs, half of which have had multiple occurrences. There are many ways to cope with burnout, and some will work better than others.
To help you find ways to overcome burnout in your professional life, we asked working professionals and business leaders about their experiences and advice. There are several burnout recovery tips and stories shared to demonstrate what steps you could take to lift yourself up and overcome this problem in your own life.
I spend the first two hours of my morning preparing for the day ahead. This includes some light meditation, gratitude exercises while I make coffee, reviewing my calendar and prioritizing my tasks by urgency and importance. I then get my team started, and might have a client meeting. I’m on an extended weight-loss journey, so on most weekdays I go to the gym in the mid-morning where I listen to podcasts while doing cardio, and answer a few emails between weight-training sets. This is what works for me, and other founders, c-suite executives, and team leaders have morning routines that work for them.
To help you gain insight into the morning routines of founders, we asked successful entrepreneurs and founders how they start their days. From practicing 5-minute journaling to “Zenning out” in the morning, there are several different morning routines that these founders engage in to start their days off right and end feeling productive and content.
Many people believe that running a business isn’t for everyone. It often requires long hours and a constant hustle to keep existing customers happy while bringing new ones into the fold. However, some basic wellness activities can make ownership accessible to more people. For example, workcations help me to cope with the daily grind of finding and maintaining new and existing digital marketing clients. There are other activities you can try to keep from burning out, too.
Shortly after “Quiet Quitting” took headlines by storm, “Quiet Firing” showed up in its wake. The former takes the side of the employee, where various factors such as COVID-related stress, burnout, and economic woes take their toll on the workforce leading them to choose to be less productive. The latter is the business side, where productivity is stifled from the top-down in order to make a person so miserable they willingly leave. But if employees are quietly quitting, why shouldn’t management participate in quietly firing these difficult workers?
