Comments on: Regain Balance and Avoid Burnout http://gigaom.com/collaboration/regain-balance-and-avoid-burnout/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mix Up the Workweek by Setting Your Own “20-Percent Time” – WebWorkerDaily http://gigaom.com/collaboration/regain-balance-and-avoid-burnout/#comment-83252 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:02:25 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13462#comment-83252 [...] Simon noted in a previous post, it’s easier to get burned out when you don’t work a typical 9-to-5 job. With that in [...]

]]> By: Harry @ GoalsOnTrack http://gigaom.com/collaboration/regain-balance-and-avoid-burnout/#comment-83251 Fri, 29 May 2009 17:31:12 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13462#comment-83251 Agree. However, I think it’s important to know and decide what your goals are. Otherwise, all this effort in improving productivity will make little sense.

]]> By: Dr Beverly Potter http://gigaom.com/collaboration/regain-balance-and-avoid-burnout/#comment-83250 Fri, 29 May 2009 15:02:51 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13462#comment-83250 Burnout is a motivational problem – a kind of job depression – where it becoming increasingly difficult to perform, which is why it is often called “emotional exhaustion. It is not caused by imbalance in goals or ideals, nor is it caused by working long hours. Steve Boms wrote an interesting article but he is not a psychologist and no expert.

Burnout is caused by “uncontrollability” – powerlessness, a sense of being trapped and unable to do anything about it.

Burnout is prevented or overcome by developing personal power, a feeling of I-Can-Do. The suggestions in the article are good ones, and would likely increase one’s feelings of control in one’s work and life.

The first step is to “pinpoint” exactly what is getting you down. Especially important is to study the triggers – what happened just before you got “that” feeling – because each person is different. Often, we can make ourselves into helpless victims or empower ourselves with the way we view our circumstance, for example.

I’ve provided corporate training since in the 1970s and authors a few books on overcoming job burnout. http://www.docpotter.com/art_bo-summary.html

]]> By: Shanky Baba http://gigaom.com/collaboration/regain-balance-and-avoid-burnout/#comment-83249 Fri, 29 May 2009 13:48:37 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13462#comment-83249 Great article! I would like add few more scenarios when you burn yourself out.

You also get more burned out when you want to start your own company but cannot afford to quit your daily job (of course for financial and personal reasons).

You work 9-6 then you reach home by 7pm and then you just have few hours left to follow your passions/dreams. It is quite tiring and hard to keep up the motivation level.

Anyways nice article.

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