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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What does it look like to walk out our Christian faith at work?
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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I love this scene from the movie The Santa Clause. Scott Calvin has just gotten to the North Pole after accidently filling in for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. He is wandering around this incredible building filled with colorful toys, sweet elves, and amazing inventions. But in spite of what he can see right in front of him, he doesn’t actually…
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I slammed my fist onto the desk in anger and I responded, exasperated- “I can give you five diagnoses right now but none of that is going to fix your problems. Do you want to be diagnosed with something else or do you want a solution?!” I realized I had just basically yelled at a patient, and sat back to…
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I’ve lead a Bible study for almost a decade and one thing that comes up very frequently is does God still talk to people? Like literally tell people things and answer what they ask for? Does He really even care about the things we ask him for? Or are we all just sitting around going through steps, begging for an…
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We spend our whole lives trying our hardest not to fail at anything in our career, but never seem to put God on that same level of things that cannot be sacrificed. If we put off everything about our relationship with God until “one day”, we put off the very thing that gives us the ability to finish the rest of life.
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In college I took an introductory Philosophy class with several hundred other students. Most students did not attend class regularly, but of course, everyone was there for the final which represented the majority of our grade and was rumored to be a very difficult exam. I walked into the room and literally felt like I hit a wall of nerves.…
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I watched an incredible movie a few months ago called “Something the Lord made.” It’s based on a true story about these two men that research and create the surgery that now saves thousands of children’s lives every year. Basically, there are a lot of things that can go wrong with a babies heart as it is formed. Any holes…
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When was the last time you were overjoyed at your least favorite part of your job? When was the last time you spent marveling at all the incredible things that had to happen in your body for you to read this sentence? When was the last time you sat and enjoyed the boring rather than sat anxiously waiting for something “worthwhile and new?”
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