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October 8, 2008
Making Work "Work": Resources for Busy Professionals
Experiencing burnout?
Mike Staver of The Staver Group offers the following tips to avoid burnout:
- Admit to yourself that you're burning out, and that it's a result of the way you invest your energy. Don't blame it on anything or anyone else.
- Don't give up and stop investing energy. Instead, change how and where you invest it.
- Decide what you want, then invest your energy accordingly.
- Tell someone how you're going to change the way you're investing your energy and make sure that person will hold you accountable to your commitment.
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If you know certain behaviors drain your energy, align your choices and behaviors with your commitment. Limit your contact with - or at least your investment in - people and activities that deplete you more than they replenish or sustain you.