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Today, Umbrella is sharing with you the ideas and thoughts of Brandon Burchard, the world’s highest-paid motivational and marketing trainer and one of the most influential leaders in the field of personal growth.

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Feel The Day- If we were talking about successful people, what everybody wants after getting everything. After you hit your goals, you make the money you feel like your family needs. What you want is you want to feel the day more. You want greater depth in your relationships, like deeper relationships, more profound commitment, and deeper meaning, right?

The whole mindfulness movement is really architected. I want to feel the day; I want to feel a presence. I want to feel the energy. I want to feel the spirit. I want self-awareness or consciousness.

Pit Stops throughout the day are essential for feeling the day. You need to have moments that you purposely take every day throughout the day to reconnect with spirit, soul, energy, or even to breathe.

I stand, I close my eyes, and I bounce in place. I take 10 deep breaths & it re-energizes my body and my brain. My mental focus is back. When I open my eyes, I wonder what’s my intention for this next hour. And that little pit stop makes me go longer. You need little more pit stops to tune your mind, amp up your emotions, and reconnect with the heart, the spirit or the soul. If you are grinding all day, that’s the equation for burnout. You cannot possibly hope the burnout will end if you don’t do more consistently recharge.

The world’s most extensive study of productivity that’s ever been done found that the most productive people also reported high levels of happiness. They took a break, on average, every 52 minutes. Did they need a break? No, they’re recharging. If you’re crashing at 2pm in the afternoon every day, it’s time to take a hint. You need to recharge at 10:30 or 1:30 to prevent the crash that happens at 2 p.m. The crash is happening because the recharges are not happening.

💁‍♂️ Our today’s “guest”, Dr Lukin, explains five ways to prevent burnout from happening through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

💭 Realize your thoughts and feelings are not facts – just because you have an idea or a sense, it does not make it so. So being aware and putting it in context of what’s happening in your life allows for a person to better cope with the T&F that are coming up. Non-attached observation of a T&F invariably decreases the intensity of any destructive emotion.

🌿 Get up and do something physical – routinely getting up and moving, going for a walk or having lunch in a green area improves one’s ability to tolerate stress.

📵 Consider your time spent on smart devices – many apps nowadays focus on mindfulness and meditation; engaging in some reflections via those apps rather than mindlessly browsing through FB or Twitter is an excellent way to reduce your burnout.

🧐 Reconnect to your “why” – People usually forget why they are doing their job. Spending some time reflecting on why you got into the field reinvigorates the individual to continue the work, so make notes to remind yourself why you started it.

👨‍👩‍👦 Reach out to loved ones – loneliness is another reason, not even so much that the individual is having a hard time dealing with anxiety, depression, are feeling overwhelmed. The idea is that they are doing it alone. So sending a simple message or spending time with loved ones helps reconnect to the greater context of why they are doing certain things and allows for a better opportunity for individuals to self-care and manage some burnout stress.

🫡 Try to pick one of the pieces of advice and put it into practice relatively consistently. Don’t feel discouraged if you’re not doing it consistently a 100% accuracy. These are just some ideas to think about, to put in your toolbox and take out whatever you are feeling stressed.

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💁‍♂️ We back with unusual ways to slow down and deal with burnout.

🔥 Recognise that passion makes you more vulnerable to burnout

In the self-help classic, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin Sharma writes: “A burning sense of passion is the most potent fuel of your dreams”. You’ve heard it before – if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day. 🗣But at the same time, entrepreneurs are no strangers to this. This explains why the term ‘entrepreneurial burnout’ has been coined and attributed to a mistaken belief that following your passion means sacrificing everything at hand.😓

👉 David Whiteside, who holds a PhD in organisational behaviour, explains: “Despite the clear benefits of feeling meaningfully connected to your work, our data suggests that there are often real and undiscussed complications of purpose-driven work on employees’ health that can be related to the experience of burnout long-term”.

💭 Embrace ‘niksen’ (the Dutch art of doing nothing)

Niksen – doing something without a purpose, like sitting still, daydreaming or staring out the window. It’s forcing your mind to be idle, to have no intentions.

📃 In her article for Forbes, The Fastest Way to be More Productive is to Slow Down, Amy Blaschka writes: “Research has found that when we’re idle, we allow our minds to wander. And that daydreaming makes us more creative, better at problem-solving and better at coming up with creative ideas”.

✍️ She continues: “Our culture does not promise sitting still, and that can have wide-reaching consequences for our mental health…Practising niksen can recharge our batteries”.🔋👍

Recognise burnout as a workplace problem, not a people problem, author and workplace expert Jennifer Moss suggests a good place to start: “First, ask yourself as a leader, what is making my staff so unhealthy? Why does our work environment lack the conditions for them to flourish?”.👩‍💼

You may agree that it’s hard to put happiness into numbers but every year the World Happiness Report puts out a very beefy breakdown of happiness around the world.

The report, which draws on global survey data from people in around 150 countries placed Finland in the top position for the sixth year in a row, with a happiness score significantly ahead of all other countries.

Are you curious about how Finnish people deal with burnout? Let’s take a look together:

– The Finns take their summer holidays seriously. After enduring long bouts of cold weather and darkness in winter, the Finns enjoy their summers usually spending time in nature. Striking a balance between work and life goes hand-in-hand with efficiency.

– Some ranchos in Finland offer goat therapy sessions. Humans interacting with animals have found that petting the animal promoted the release of serotonin, prolactin and oxytocin-all hormones that can play a part in elevating moods it also lowers anxiety, helps people relax, provides comfort and reduces loneliness.

– For those working in cities like Helsinki companies provide sleeping places with wooden pillows and unique chairs for sleeping in feet put up position.

– Finnish sauna – the relaxation brought by sauna bathing makes it a brilliant stress repellent and enhancer of sleep quality. It lifts up spirits even in a depressed mood. The brain also gets its own share of the soft caress: which prevents memory disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Other content from this project:

Indian solutions – https://cutt.ly/vwthAYAL

USA solutions – https://cutt.ly/rwwSg5Bh

Spanish solutions – https://cutt.ly/GwqwWHYh

Japanese solutions – https://cutt.ly/d54QT48

What is burnout? – https://cutt.ly/AwqPuFyb

Project announcement – https://cutt.ly/l4EPrM2

The project is supported by the European Commission within the scope of the Erasmus+ program.

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