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What do the members here on board do to cure and avoid burnouts?

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(01-19-2018 12:10 PM)Drax Wrote:  What do the members here on board do to cure and avoid burnouts?

Go on a vacation!

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If I could go on a vacation I wouldn't be burnt out.

I keep meaning to make a thread like this but felt like it would come off as whining.

Post: #4

It depends how your burnout is manifesting itself.

I've had it before where I've just hated life. There was no colour to anything I was doing. It was all a drag.

And I've had it recently where it packed my creativity in a box and sent it to Japan.

For both, the solution will always be to take time off. Come back fresh and ready to win.

In the meantime, you can "fix" it (be able to keep going) by:

• Eating well. It's very easy to slip into a shitty diet if you don't have time/energy/willpower to keep cooking yourself good food.
• Exercise. ALL the benefits of lifting weights help you work at your peak level and keep your brain chemistry happier.
• Don't masturbate. It'll do the opposite of exercise.
• Sleep well. You need it to heal your body, relax your brain and generally function well. Keep your routines.
• Get out. Don't lock yourself away in your home-office - it'll become a jail cell. If you can, get out to coffee shops. Talk to people. Feel their energy.
• Take a day off. You'll get another 2-3 creative and productive days out of taking just one day off. I'd take 2 good days and 1 day off, than 3 shitty days.
  

It's definitely not an ideal solution. But it will get you over the finishing line until you actually can take time off.

Post: #5

(01-19-2018 12:10 PM)Drax Wrote:  What do the members here on board do to cure and avoid burnouts?

What have you tried?

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I was on a similar path, and one of the veteran members recommended:

hobbies, hobbies, hobbies.

Try looking at either enhancing your skills or picking up new skills/adventure.

If you work in an office job, then definitely recommend hiking or rock climbing. Maybe look at camping (super cheap once the initial expenses are done). Camping spots are everywhere. Something that gets you social and out of your head.

If you're single, how's your game? Again getting outside your head and socializing, gaming, is crucial.

Look at your friendship circles. If those are weak, look at building more new ones.

Getting out of your head and into the real world of interactions and sharing experiences can be gratifying as a world trip. Socrates once wrote that you can have traveling experiences in your home-town without ever having to leave. I think he was alluding to his emphasis on the importance of dialogue between people.

Good luck. And as Statesman says, Get out of your house!

Post: #7

I'm definitely experiencing some burn out right now. I've just advanced to a point in my career that it has started to consume every aspect of my life. I work a minimum of 55 hours every week and that doesn't count all of the being on call and the extra work I do from home. The stress and all consuming nature of my job has allowed my diet to slip.

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SamuelRoberts, you are right. Thing is business/work/life is asking too much responsibility so there is not really much time to plan something.You know any good place for a good vacation to cure?

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Baphomet: I try visiting coffeeshops, relax at home, sometimes exercise, wellness, sex some beers. But all didnt help well since I cannt even bring up the will to make bills to my business partners! As people already said here, the best cure is vacation I think. I have not been on vacation for years now.

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I had 2, in 2008 and 2017, each time I invested myself into sport to blow the steam and you could tell by the size I reach but it was impossible to get work out of my head.
I could not relax on weekends or on vacation, my daughter was just born and I wanted to throw her out the windows.
The only doctor I saw wanted to medicate me to bear with the work but I said no, my solution was to quit that job, the fact is that it was not meant for me even if I was really good at it and loved the challenge but could not handle the people created a dissonance, now I'm unemployed and start discovering back to my true self.

Post: #11

(01-20-2018 06:36 AM)Drax Wrote:  Baphomet: I try visiting coffeeshops, relax at home, sometimes exercise, wellness, sex some beers. But all didnt help well since I cannt even bring up the will to make bills to my business partners! As people already said here, the best cure is vacation I think. I have not been on vacation for years now.

Yeah you need to take a vacay man. At least a week, two weeks would be better if you can. You'll feel much better after. Then you need to do them regularly going forward.