#407 How to Avoid Burnout
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
How To Avoid Burnout
Many of us love to help others in various ways, from caring for elderly parents to assisting those struggling with emotional or physical disabilities. But you might need to learn how often helping others can lead to burnout. Let's explore ways together to avoid burnout and keep assisting others for whom we care.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If you've chosen to listen to |
| 0:08.9 | this podcast, there's a high probability that you like to help others. You feel that giving to others is a great way to live life. |
| 0:18.0 | And I couldn't agree more. |
| 0:20.0 | After I moved away to go to university, my parents decided that they were getting tired of the |
| 0:26.3 | Midwestern winters and they wanted to move to the sunbelt where it was warmer. |
| 0:31.3 | So they sold everything they had and they moved to Arizona. And of course |
| 0:35.2 | they didn't know anyone there so they had to decide what were they going to do. |
| 0:38.2 | After they got jobs and got settled in, I actually don't know how it happened but my father, who was always a very kind soul, saw so many people in Arizona living |
| 0:49.4 | homelessness that he decided to start visiting them and getting to know them and spend time with them. |
| 0:55.0 | And then he and my mother would go to local markets and get food that they would give away to the homeless and they would bring it to them. |
| 1:02.0 | And after time he actually started a |
| 1:03.9 | nonprofit where people could donate to him and he used all that money to buy tents |
| 1:08.6 | and sleeping bags so that the homeless people wouldn't be cold at night. |
| 1:12.4 | He and my mother did this for you. so that the homeless people wouldn't be cold at night. |
| 1:13.6 | He and my mother did this for years, and it was a beautiful thing that they participated in. |
| 1:19.3 | And it wasn't only beneficial to the homeless people, it was beneficial to my parents too. They loved |
| 1:24.6 | getting to know these people's lives and how they could help them, get them job |
| 1:28.0 | sometimes, places to live. They were involved with the homeless for years. |
| 1:32.6 | And then after my mother died, my father, who was not very domestic, |
| 1:36.8 | and a lot of people knew that. |
| 1:38.2 | Well, one of the homeless people who had gotten off the streets, who they helped, |
| 1:41.7 | she started coming over and taking care of my dad by doing his |
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