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In this day and age, people often times have so much to do and little time to do it.  Between juggling jobs, caring for their spouses and kids, cleaning house, cooking, appointments, phone calls, etc. many people don’t make it a priority to just unplug themselves from everything, even if only for a day.

People need to realize that they are their own advocate and there is no need for them to explain their actions to anyone else, to satisfy them.  Each person is living their own life, with their own goals and ideas in mind and when they need to do something that will benefit them indefinitely, they don’t need to find an excuse to tell people why they are doing it.

You have every right to find your center and begin to seek a way to live your life in a calm fashion.  Find ways to reduce your stress and chaotic lifestyle by prioritizing the things that you are doing now vs the things that need to be done.  You may choose to extract several things from your “to do list” that you hastily added to your (already bursting at the seems) load.  Removing these tasks may help uplift you and remove a great deal of weight off of your mind.

It’s imperative that every human being gets a chance to be “off” at least once a week (or more) to recharge their energy, refocus on what’s important in their lives as well as giving their bodies and minds a chance to rest.  Each person should be able to plan a day (weekly), when nothing is required of them, except the bare minimum. A day when they have nothing written on their schedules except to have a good time that day, doing whatever they need to do to please themselves.

If someone is not in charge of recharging themselves, chances are, nobody is going to sit them down and tell them that they’re doing too much.  The old adage, “The more you give, the more people will take” comes to mind.  Make it a routine, where one day (or more) a week you become unreachable by phone, e-mail, texting, or what have you. On that day, do very little except to sit back and kick up your heels, you just do whatever it is that you need to do to keep in touch with yourself.

Often times, we are encouraged to do more and more tasks daily and it is a major detriment to our health.  A common problem with most adults, is stress. Stress leads to all sorts of medical issues, such as depression, obesity, lack of focus, etc. as well as causing the person to be on edge all the time, and not much fun to be around. Not to mention, they’re so caught up in what needs to be done and what to do next, that they don’t get the chance to enjoy the moment. They need to sit back and enjoy the little things that they may have done,  a thousand times before, but may have never noticed the true beauty in it.

When stress is overlooked and they keep pushing themselves and don’t see the warning signs that their bodies and minds are about to shut down, they may start to enter into the dangerous burn-out phase.

Burnout is commonly characterized by:

Emotional symptoms of burnout:

Behavioral symptoms of burnout:

Recovering from Burnout:

There are 3 tips that are very important to remember if you feel yourself slipping into burnout terratory or if you have a family member or friend going through it.

Tip #1- Slow down or take a break

Tip #2- Share what you’re feeling with someone who can give you some support, and give a helping hand to help you through this tough time

Tip #3- Reevaluate your goals and priorities- Remember that your goals are not set in concrete. If you have to reevaluate the things you think are important for you to accomplish to please other people, refocus yourself and do what you feel needs to be done to improve your life, by your own standards.

Pursue a hobby that you’ve always loved and let fall by the wasteside or search for hobbies that you may have always wanted to learn.  Either way, find something that interests you enough to spark the passion in you to come out and make you feel like yourself again, or better.

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