Hi dear friends! ☂️
💁♂️ 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?”.👩💼
