| > | | | | You can increase your creativity and inspiration by |
| Job burnout happens when the stress or | | | | setting up supportive environments that |
| prolonged frustration of a job or career | | | | constantly trigger inspiration. If your morning drive |
| contributes to emotional and physical exhaustion. | | | | to the office finds you discouraged by listening to |
| The ability to cope with general life stressors is | | | | negative morning news, consider creating a new |
| strained. This combination results in a lack of | | | | environment by listening to your favorite music or |
| motivation, fatigue, irritability, and sometimes | | | | to inspirational talks. |
| depression. Job burnout presents a significant | | | | 3.Eliminate drains |
| challenge for everyone supporting the burned out | | | | A drain is anything that wastes your time, drains |
| individual. | | | | your energy, and has some negativity around it. It |
| The challenge of burnout can be especially taxing | | | | could be circumstances, habits, things or people. |
| for creative, goal-oriented people. When these | | | | Drains have an opportunity cost. When you focus |
| people blame themselves for their situation, the | | | | on a drain, you don’t have time to create, |
| feeling of exhaustion only gets worse. They feel | | | | respond to opportunities (or even notice them), |
| helpless. Their efforts get them nowhere. The | | | | or do what you really want. You miss out on |
| cycle of working harder, seeing little or no results | | | | other opportunities which might be more fun, |
| and getting increasingly stressed out is extremely | | | | lucrative, creative or significant. |
| disparaging. | | | | 4. Uncover your job values |
| As a career coach specializing in helping people | | | | Your values are the behavior and activities to |
| through this exhausting cycle, I’ve found | | | | which you are naturally drawn. When engaged in |
| tools that combat burnout. If you suffer from | | | | these activities, you feel most like yourself: |
| burnout, applying these tools will help you increase | | | | connected, excited, glowing. Your life has a feeling |
| your energy and take your life back from your | | | | of effortlessness. Most of us lead lives which do |
| draining job. | | | | not grant us the chance to feel this way. If you |
| 1. Create an emergency escape route | | | | take the time to identify your values, you will be |
| An emergency escape route takes some of the | | | | more aware of why there are conflicts between |
| paralyzing stress off you. You facilitate the | | | | you and your job and be more able to identify |
| planning for your next step. Some first steps in | | | | the needs you have sacrificed. |
| creating your escape route can be finding ways | | | | 5. Define success for yourself |
| to create a money reserve and in preparing a | | | | Until you take the time to define success for |
| current resume. | | | | yourself, it will be defined by others (your boss, |
| 2. Design support environments | | | | your parents, your partner), your culture, the |
| Environments are the circumstances, objects, or | | | | past, or advertising. One way to define success |
| conditions surrounding you. An environment can | | | | for yourself is to complete the sentence, I |
| be your eNetwork (email, web, electronic | | | | know I am being successful by . . . |
| community) or your vocabulary. | | | | |