We burnout often because we filter everything in our lives nowadays- painting over and touching up things that we should have just thrown out and given up on long ago.
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Initially, burnout was reserved for those in high stress careers. What I’ve noticed recently is that burnout isn’t just for the Type-A overachieving doctors we assume will suffer from it. The more I’ve interacted and worked with friends in ministry the more I realize it’s not just burnout in medicine– burnout affects the artist, the dreamers, and the servants too.…
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So everyone has bad days or even bad months at work, how do you know when it’s actually burnout? One author posed it as a continuum of stress– a dichotomy between stress and eventual burnout. You look for signs indicating struggle now, and make changes to head in a different direction in the future. The symptoms of burnout have been defined as exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficiency…
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I’m going to dedicate this month to talking about burnout. I have been kicked out of my career once and burned myself out twice so I pretty much consider myself an expert! (Though I don’t know that that’s really something to brag about.) This time of year for me personally has always been the worst, so I figured it would…
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