Burnout Beyond Belief

🔥Shelby Larsen inspired.

Working longer hours has become normal in the past few decades. As the world changes, it's easy to get burned out.

But how do you know when you've hit the point where your work is starting to negatively affect your health?

One of the best ways to determine if you're burning yourself out is by keeping track of your moods and energy levels during your workday. If you find yourself feeling drained or depressed at any point during the day, it's a good sign that you might be working too much.

It’s hard to find the right words to describe the kind of mental burnout that can happen when you’re working in a job that requires a lot of thinking.

We’ve all been there: you wake up, go to work, and spend your day immersed in tasks that require your brain to be switched on. And then, by the time you get home at night, it feels like your brain has been turned off. You’re exhausted and overwhelmed—like your brain is ready for bed and not ready to be switched back on again.

When this happens, it can be really difficult to focus on anything else—let alone do anything productive with your time.

Another way to tell if you're burning yourself out is if your productivity dips at any point during the day—or even over time as a whole. If this happens, it's probably time for some self-care!

Self-care can mean many different things depending on what works best for each individual person. Some people like taking a walk outside, some like meditating for 15 minutes every morning before work starts, and others like going to bed early so they can get up early and have time for themselves before their first meeting starts at 9am sharp!

You can help break this cycle by taking small steps toward self-care every day. We all need some time to recharge our batteries, whether it's taking a walk outside or meditating in the morning before work starts up again. If you don't make time for yourself, no one else will either. It's also important that you take breaks throughout the day so that you can get back into an engaged state of mind after being distracted by something else (like checking email). You'll be more productive if your brain has time off from working on one thing before switching over to another project so there are no gaps in between where nothing gets done at all!

Whatever works best for YOU is what matters most when trying to figure out how much self-care is enough for YOURSELF.

Hey, you. We know how it is.

You're so busy, and you love what you do. That's why you're here: because you want to be able to keep doing what you love for as long as possible. And that's totally cool! But sometimes, even when we're living our best lives and working hard at the things we care about most, we start to feel like something is off.

Maybe it's a nagging feeling that something needs to change. Or maybe it's a slow-burning exhaustion that creeps up on us over time—it's there in the morning when we roll out of bed, and by afternoon it's hit a fever pitch that makes us feel like our whole body is made of lead. Maybe there are days where we just can't get out of bed because our brains are throbbing with pain, or days where we have trouble focusing on anything other than the way our heart feels like it might explode if someone so much as looks at us wrong.

Whatever it is, we know this feeling too well: the feeling of being overwhelmed by life itself and by all of the things that need doing in order for us to live our best lives—the bills, the errands, the deadlines… sometimes it feels like no end in sight, but it will come. Take care of yourself, friend.