The recovery from burnout is nothing but solving
the root cause of the problem.
The symptoms will eventually go away but you
have to first address the problem at the root
level.
What is the root cause of your burnout?
99% of the time it is your inability to say
no.
No to more tasks than you can handle.
Just a very simple situation of biting more
than you can chew.
So, you end up failing at everything you do
or you try very hard, with extra hours, exceeding
your daily mental limit, and burning out in
the end.
Whichever employer you go to, unless you learn
how to say no, you will continue to get burned
out.
There’s no escape from it.
People will always give you more tasks until
you say enough.
Look, during my management consulting career
I had over 200 clients, who are all leading
firms in their own fields.
I’ve seen this situation so many times in
my client organizations.
It’s always the same situation.
New comer trying to prove himself by working
extremely long hours, a newly promoted manager,
or those people who are fearful even the simplest
confrontations.
It happens all the time, and it always ends
the same way.
Burnout.
The solution is very simple, you’ll need
to learn how to say no.
Don’t bite more than you can chew.
If they’re force feeding you, learn to say
no.
Explain your logic of why you can no longer
handle more projects, more tasks.
Your plate is full until you deliver what
you have successfully.
You don’t have to be fearful of confronting
your manager either.
I guarantee you that you wont lose yoru job
because of this.
But you may very well lose your job if you
take on more projects and you don’t successfully
deliver them.
This is the brutally honest truth about a
burnout.
I won’t feed you with BS, go take a vacation,
start meditating, start yoga, eat healthy.
These may treat the symptoms but you’ll
eventually see yourself in the same situation
again.
See you next week
