Have you ever suffered from burnout? What has helped you to overcome it?

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Establish clear boundaries between work and personal life.

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Zac Zhu · Answer

Bills, damn bills.

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The first step in overcoming burnout is to acknowledge and identify the signs. This includes physical and emotional exhaustion, decreased motivation, and a negative outlook. Self-awareness is crucial.

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Johnny Stoneburner · Answer

@kimberly_cash getting to the root of what is causing burnout is a great way to ensure that your prevention strategies will actually work! As @yannell_selman mentioned in a post above, it's crucial to also keep in mind that teams and companies contribute to burnout out too! Identifying ways to connect with others to examine the root causes at the team/company is a good first step!

Yannell Selman · Answer

@john_micha @jumicreative This is so important. I think about it as clear boundaries between work time and non work time. In our org, we use High Quality Time-Off as a practice to help us unplug (because we are obsessed with work, so just "relaxing" isn't enough). With HQTO we basically focus on getting emotional, cognitive, and physical distance from work during non working hours. It's stuff that is: 
1. Active (creatively, physically) 
2. Disconnected from devices 
3. Intrinsically satisfying 
4. Stimulating to the senses
5. Makes you proud of yourself

Zac Zhu · Answer

@jumicreative To be honest, it's effective. But there's a bug, for some reason, to combat negative emotions, the bills always seem to keep increasing.

Jumi Creative · Answer

@zac_zhu Bills help you overcome it? Your profile picture perfectly fits to this answer! 😂

Jumi Creative · Answer

@nick_frost Always need to remember this!

Jumi Creative · Answer

@lisa_stanley This is so important and crucial, yet it becomes secondary in a flow state, at least for us. Definitely need to work on it!

Johnny Stoneburner · Answer

@nick_frost Taking time off is huge! Setting reminders and giving yourself permission is great practice!

Jumi Creative · Answer

@john_micha How did you get there? We are trying but we are still struggling sometimes, because we love our work, so it's in our minds 24/7

Have you ever suffered from burnout? What has helped you to overcome it?

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