Burnout - Coaching Success - #582

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Learn how to avoid, identify, and get out of occupational burnout. Like overtraining, this is better to avoid then dig yourself out of.

Burnout: Definition & Identification

This is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion. It comes from doing too much for too long, especially too many urgent things. Some people have performed some great feats of endurance in their lives, but they often focus on the important, not the urgent.

You will experience a lack of desire to work, even with things that used to motivated and excited you. It will affect all areas of your life.

There is a clear parallel with overtraining. Overtraining is actually less common than most people think, but if you become overtrained it is debilitating. Overtraining and becoming burned out are better to avoid than dig yourself out of.

Burnout: Avoidance versus Digging Yourself Out

This is one of those instances when important things become urgent. You drown in an overwhelming amount of urgency for too long, and you will have to confront it. It is better to get out in front of it.

Ensure that you are making time for the important. You are taking days off and there are things you do unrelated to the urgent every day.

Take care of your health always: physical, medical, spiritual, psychological, social.

Do not medicate with activities that can exacerbate the problem, such as alcohol or other drugs, unhealthy foods, empty pleasures, risky behaviors, or excessive spending or gambling.

To dig yourself out will require more work and greater effort than if you had never found yourself burned out in the first place. And, of course, some people never dig themselves out.

Avoid burnout, but reach out for help if you find yourself burned out.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Barbell Logic.
0:04.7	The podcast where we talk about what it means to experience strength.
0:08.3	And how you can use simple, hard and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life.
0:15.0	It starts with meeting you where you are right now and finding lasting solutions.
0:20.0	Welcome to the show. You're listening to the Barbell Logic podcast. I'm your host Matt Reynolds. It's another
0:36.8	episode of the Coaching Success series. We'll dive right in today as we usually do and
0:41.3	want to talk about something that people don't talk about very often,
0:44.4	which is burnout. And I want to talk about my experience with burnout when I've had that in my life,
0:51.8	when to look for it in your life, what to do about it, right?
0:55.2	So burnout is essentially a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress.
1:08.7	It occurs when you feel totally overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet the
1:16.6	constant demands of life and specifically the constant urgency in the things that you hate.
1:24.2	I had a conversation with my mom yesterday,
1:25.8	we went and had coffee, we do that
1:27.6	old quarterly or so.
1:28.9	You know, traditionally I was closer to my dad.
1:30.7	You guys know I lost my dad a few years.
1:32.8	My mom and I have gotten quite a bit closer over the last few years.
1:35.6	A great talk yesterday.
1:37.2	Life has been so busy lately.
1:39.6	For me, business is great.
1:41.8	I love what I do, but I was on three straight weeks of travel.
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